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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Our friend @alien runs the Slackware community Forgejo instance, and he has a neat little script for turning cats into Warhol artwork. Here's my big old man, Presto, as the result of said script. Sadly, he died in 2023 from liver cancer at the age of 15, but […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

My cat Presto. Big ass fucker with lots of floof to his name. Sadly passed in 2023 from liver cancer

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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

I have acquired one... how do you say it... friend.

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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

So I got a copy of Demon's Souls today. For my first time playing a Souls game, I like to think I'm doing alright. It only took a massive fall down multiple flights of stairs in the Boletarian Palace for me to have my first non-scripted death. All cuz I was […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A copy of Demon's Souls for the PlayStation 3

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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

People with a failure kink when they hear the word "Atari"

Randy Marsh from South Park covered in "ectoplasm"

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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

[FOSS, dumb self-harm joke] Little update on the Lemote Yeeloong netbook I got in April: The battery, which doesn't hold a charge, is currently being re-celled by a knowledgeable friend. It should arrive back soon enough. Installing some form of Linux has […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

@puppygirlhornypost2 I still have my favorite screwdriver from when I was a kid. Weirdly, it works super well with almost anything I can throw at it, so long as it's either phillips or flathead, as those are the only bits I have for it. When the bits are taken out, it can also work with hex nuts.

My favorite screwdriver. It has a yellow handle, and a detachable rod and bits

My favorite screwdriver, with the rod taken out but the bits on either side still kept in it.

My favorite screwdriver, with the rod and both bits taken out. One bit is small, one bit is large, and both have a phillips end and a flathead end.

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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

I decided to try Bryan Lunduke's stupid shitty Devuan rice, but in order to get any enjoyment out of anything this clown shits out, I spent a little bit of time making the distro significantly more usable :)

Lunduke Computer Operating System (literally just a half-assed Devuan rice made by the biggest dipshit in the FOSS space) made more usable by way of woke-ifying it with GNOME and lots of gayness

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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2026

I wish someone would sniff me the way this aardvark is sniffing a pumpkin

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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

I really really really really hate that I pull off the redditor look so well. Feel free to use this as a reaction image.

My stupid ass wearing a fedora and a Linux shirt, while I'm holding a sword and tipping said fedora

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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2026

I miss when phones were small. This BlackBerry I bought recently is quite nice in its size and form factor. Now if only there was a phone like this that runs mainline #Linux

a picture of me holding my BlackBerry while it points at the mirror, creating a recursive nightmare of me and my BlackBerry

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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2026

Figured this old format could use a touch-up. I do not apologize for this dumbassery. And yes, I explicitly chose have some of these with their older logos, simply because I like them better.

An existing meme that I put a large twist on. The original meme uses mostly different platforms in its comparison, but I chose some more modern stuff.

Anyway, the meme is: THE LIFE CYCLE OF A MEME.

In the top tier, you find: 4chan, Something Awful, and Funnyjunk logos (Also IRC, Usenet, and obscure onionsites). (Those are mostly older examples where you'd find memes, but the onionsites (like imageboards and obscure forums) are where you can find some spicy modern memes - yes I am chronically online) The image is of a person taking a shit.
In the next tier, eating the shit of the above tier: Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat
In the next tier, eating the shit of the above tier (you get where this is going): Reddit, Tumblr
Next tier: Facebook, TikTok
Next Tier: iFunny
At the bottom, not taking a shit, and instead having the last bit of shit put onto a plate: 9gag.

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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2026

I just got back from my local comic book store, where I went for Free Comic Book Day. Among the non-free comics was this absolute gem. The cover and back text were too funny to even think about passing up.

Back cover for the trade paperback "The Bible 2"

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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026

Looking back, it's no surprise I grew up hating the GOP and MAGA crowd. Just look at the awesome shit I read as a kid!

A page (16 specifically) from a Captain Underpants book. The image is of two old people, one holding a sign saying "WE DEMAND REPRESENTATION!" and the other holding a little sign saying "...AND HARD CANDIES!"

The text of the page reads:
In the interest of pleasing all the grouchy old people (GOP) out there, I have also included topics especially for them. So this adventure will containreferences to health care, gardening, Bob Evans Restaurants, hard candies, FOX News, and gentle-yet-effective laxatives.
So sit back (on your hemorrhoid pillows), turn up some music (Lawrence Welk), and grab a snack (black jelly beans that are all stuck together). It's time to enjoy the all-new, squeaky-clean, fully appropriate, and NON-offensive adventures of Captain Underpants!

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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026

Currently installing #Gentoo on a spare drive in my #ThinkPad right now for the sole purpose of trying to later cross-compile a live image for my Lemote Yeeloong. Hopefully all will go well. I'll be using that image to try and get some semblance of […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

My desk setup right now, with my ThinkPad X1 Carbon (6th gen) happily compiling away on the Linux kernel inside the Gentoo live CD, while my Lemote Yeeloong sits to the side eagerly awaiting something cool to run.

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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2026

I was gonna hold off on posting about it until I successfully got something installed on it, but that's proving to be harder than I expected. This Lemote Yeeloong netbook arrived on the 1st, and is a pretty cool little device, using entirely free software […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2026

[horribly-edited Xbox game cover shitpost] Who's up for some Xbox (I don't own an original Xbox)??

A terribly-edited image of the cover for the original Xbox game "Kabuki Warriors" with the title modified to say "Bukaki Warriors."

The ESRB rating (originally M for mature) has been replaced with D for "deez nuts"

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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2026

#Wayland runs successfully on more things than I think some might realize. For example, I successfully got this #BananaPi set up with #SlackwareARM 15.0, and got my favorite #wlroots compositor, #dwl. Big thanks to @mozes, the maintainer of Slackware ARM […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026

[Anti-fascist novel with swasitkas on the cover] I just bought a copy of Dalton Trumbo's "Night of the Aurochs." If you don't know, it's a very powerful example of anti-fascist fiction, in which the protagonist, an elderly and dying Nazi, reflects on his […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Dalton Trumbo's unfinished novel, "Night of the Aurochs." The cover is blue, with Trumbo's name in gold, white text for the title, and two Nazi flags on the bottom of the cover.

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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2026

@mozes The book finally arrived, and it's really good. I can totally see how this would be the kind of book to teach someone considerable skills in the shell.

A copy of the book "Unix Shell Commands Quick Reference"

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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

Let's settle this: Jenny Wakeman: friend or clanker?

Jenny Wakeman, aka XJ-9, from the Nickelodeon cartoon "My Life as a Teenage Robot"

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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

Here we see a fine example of the duality of tron. I made these memes within 20 minutes of each other.

Maxmoefoe drinking glue. Top text reads "FEMBOY MILK" and bottom text reads "BOTTOM TEXT"

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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/02/2026

[I ran a really old clanker model to see it shit itself while I point and laugh] Because I had nothing better to do with my time, I quickly wrote up a Python script to launch the Hugging Face GPT-1 model and interact with it in a chatbot-like structure. I […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Me running Hugging Face's implementation of OpenAI's GPT-1 model from 2018, back before clankers were hallucinating hit pieces on sensible software developers.

I utilized a Bash script to launch the Python virtual environment and then run a Python script to interact with GPT-1 in a chatbot-like manner (although this predates chat history in these models).

Naturally, a well-thought argument like the one I present here results in GPT-1 going batshit insane and hallucinating a bunch of literal garbage.

Like I said, I really miss when this was the peak of clanker intelligence, because how can you possibly take this bullshit seriously and say "yeah, that's intelligent."

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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/02/2026

Did y'all know #ClassiCube has a (really broken) #SegaSaturn port? I have for a while, but now that I can play on real hardware, I gave it a shot again. Due to a shitload of graphical glitches, I couldn't think of much else to build that'd fully render […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

ClassiCube running on a Sega Saturn. Due to major graphical glitching in this port of the game, the only thing I could think to build that would fully render was a penis.

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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/02/2026

For context, the Vendozoans are a proposed but heavily debated clade of animals from before the Cambrian. Basically, anything from the Ediacaran period that doesn't display any relation to the life forms that came afterwards, all lumped together for […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A diorama of some Vendozoan life forms, as seen in the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.

Basically, really old dead stuff.

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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2026

Damn, why does Tommy Wright III's music gotta be out-of-print and so expensive. Bro needs to repress his shit 🥀 #TommyWrightIII #MemphisRap #HipHop

A screenshot from eBay showing some Tommy Wright III albums with exorbitantly high prices - the cheapest one in the picture is $279.99 USD

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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2026

Playing around with #Wayland, it seems pretty cool. I'm still trying to unlearn some of the #X11-isms, but I managed to get real-time clock and battery updates here on #dwl. It especially helped that I patched dwl to use IPC. Also, obligatory #Slackware […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A screenshot of my dwl install on Slackware, complete with real-time status in the dwlb bar, and an obligatory fastfetch.

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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2026

Got myself some str8 🔥 here in the form of Pyrexia's "Sermon of Mockery." Love me some old-school brutal death metal. #Pyrexia #DeathMetal #Cassette #SermonOfMockery #BrutalDeathMetal #NYDM #NewYorkDeathMetal

A cassette copy of Pyrexia's 1993 debut album "Sermon of Mockery." For fans of Suffocation, Internal Bleeding, Repudilation, Entorturement, Devourment, and early Afterbirth.

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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/01/2026

If I ever managed to find a #DECstation 3100 from 1989, what'd be the overall likelihood that I could get modern #Linux of some kind running on what was at one point the world's fastest MIPS-powered #Unix workstation (for all of a few months iirc)? Because I […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A photo I found online of a DECstation 3100, complete with keyboard, mouse, and monitor. For a time, this was the world's fastest Unix workstation upon release in 1989, though it was quickly outdone a few months later by the first SPARCstation model from Sun Microsystems if memory serves me correct. This machine ran Ultrix, DEC's own proprietary Unix OS, based on BSD. Though Ultrix is long discontinued, NetBSD continues to support it, and potentially also Linux, that topic being the subject of the post to which this image and alt text are attached.

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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2026

Friendly reminder that you'd be justified in treading on those who seek to take away your natural birthright to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I believe in social equality just as much as individual liberty, so I won't stand for the same […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The Gadsden flag, commonly associated with libertarian schools of thought, combined with the pride progress flag, with text saying "don't tread on anyone"

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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/01/2026

But if we're gonna talk about 90s comics with a technological bent, why not consume something better than Dilbert and enjoy some Doctor Fun? The whole series is archived here ( nerocam.com/DrFun/Dave/archive.htm ) so nothing's stopping you from […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A Doctor Fun comic, dated January 19, 1994. In the comic, an employee at an office corporation sits in his chair nervously while everyone else in the office looks at him smugly.

The text below the comic reads "Make sure you have the winning lotto number before telling everybody off at your crummy job."

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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2026

I just got back from Central Carolina Comic-Con, where Tom Kenny, the voice of SpongeBob, was making an appearance. I got a picture and an autograph on a SpongeBob comic (not pictured because it was personalized). #TomKenny #CentralCarolinaComicCon #ComicCon #Selfie #SpongeBob

From left to right: Tom Kenny, me.

Well that was a short left-to-right head count...

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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/12/2025

If it weren't highly illegal, I'd train a conspiracy of ravens to do my bidding, or if that failed, import a parliament of rooks from Europe, but that'd probably be even more illegal. I can't help it corvids are cool as fuck #Meme #Ravens #Rooks #Corvids #ProbablyNotTheBestIdeaIveEverHad

A meme from The Simpsons, where everyone at Moe's Tavern is looking concerned at Homer, who is surrounded by a murder of crows. Above the concerned bar patrons is the text "My friends and family" while above Homer and the crows is the text "Me and my latest hyperfixation"

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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/12/2025

#TIL there was an interview with Robin Williams and his mother Laurie in the 80s, and that she's basically rule 63 Robin Williams in appearance and mannerisms. No worries that she might've gotten the wrong baby from the ward there lol #RobinWilliams #TodayILearned

Robin Williams and his mother Laurie. They bear a striking resemblance.

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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/12/2025

Managed to get #SlackwareARM 12.2 running in QEMU this afternoon. This is back when the project was called #ARMedslack, and I managed to get pfetch working, though much like my #Slackware 8.1 install from last week, I had to create my own /etc/os-release file […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A screenshot from ARMedslack 12.2 (ARMedslack being the former name for Slackware ARM before Patrick Volkerding declared it an official spin of Slackware), showing WindowMaker and xterm, which is running pfetch. Much like my install of Slackware 8.1 from last week if you keep up with my timeline, I had to write an /etc/os-release file for pfetch to give more specific info on what distro I was running. I also modified pfetch to recognize the name "ARMedslack," since it normally only expects a variation of "Slackware."

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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/12/2025

Managed to get Slackware 4.0 running in 86Box with the same specs as my Slackware 8.1 install from yesterday. For this one, pfetch just segfaulted, so I had to write up my own janky little fetch script. If anyone's interested, I can clean it up and share it […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/12/2025

Got my Christmas tree set up today. Rate it out of 10 if you like.

My bedroom Christmas tree, complete with lights and a red ornament.

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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/11/2025

SpongeBob episodes will be silly as hell and then have shit like this: #SpongeBob #WWI #Memes #MadeInGIMP

An edited image of German soldiers marching in World War I, edited to feature Squidward Tentacles walking along, wearing a pickelhaube helmet and holding a Gewehr 98, visibly looking done with the Kaiser's bullshit.

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TronNerd82 @tronnerd82.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/11/2025

A few bestial black metal tapes I ordered arrived a few days ago. Love me some Blasphemy and Beherit. #BlackMetal #Blasphemy #Beherit #WarMetal #BestialBlackMetal #Cassettes

Three bestial black metal cassettes. From left to right: "Fallen Angel of Doom" by Blasphemy, "The Oath of Black Blood" by Beherit, and "Drawing Down the Moon" also by Beherit.

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