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@Umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy
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| Obsessed with Tech and Linux | Space Wizard | 🇦🇺 Verified #jolteon or #umbreon or whatever I feel like that day (shapeshifter). Currently studying #networking […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ donphan.social/@Umbreon, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026
I'm just experimenting with a camera I got a decade ago that I barely used and have recently found during a clean up, kind of impressed with the shot quality on an otherwise cheap camera.
A cutie with a lower than average amount of neurons staring blankly at the camera.This photo makes this cat look way more regal than she actually is irl.
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026
I'm sensing a pattern in Australian politics. Where the centre-left Party, the ALP/Australian Labor Party are unpopular for half the term their governing according to polls and then basically at the last moment the electorate comes to it's senses when they put […] [Original post on donphan.social]
Reddit headline on the r/AustralianPolitics subreddit by u/Joey-JoJoJnrShaBadoo

Victorian Election is 'too close to call' today according to a Roy Morgan Research poll.
The Left Wing parties (ALP and Greens) have 46 seats; narrowly ahead of the Right (Liberal-National Party and One Nation) at 42 seats. With 10 lower house seats being One Nation.
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026
Wait I just realised.... did they move to UE6 for Fortnite/Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) already?(or at least merged something from upstream versions of the engine and forgot to correct the engine version tag)
Screenshot of the opening loading screen for Unreal Editor for Fortnite (aka UEFN, a easier to use and cutdown branch of UE that integrates with Fortnite's Creative mode ecosystem and allows for people to make their games on top of Fortnite).

At the bottom it shows the latest game version v42 (aka Chapter 7; Season 4's launch version) and Unreal Engine 6.0.0.
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026
What a deal!!!!
Game is now 0% off
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026
So basically pay-to-play insider trading. The Moron-in-Chief has democratised bribing corrupt politicians (himself).
A Twitter post by @unusual whales from 11:27AM - 16/7/26

"BREAKING: Trump Media to sell "faster access" to President Trump's Truth Social posts, which will let traders and investors pay for real-time feed of Truth Social posts."
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026
Seems Protogen's aren't using ReFS.
The English Wikipedia opening paragraph for Microsoft's ReFS, which is codenamed "Protogon". Wikipedia suggests Protogens for people confused about the spelling.
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026
I hate Windows, as I say with 5 different legitimate Windows client licenses and 7 Server licenses that got over the years paying sweet fuck all due to student perks. I will still pirate Windows no matter what they say. That said, will keep these for later if […] [Original post on donphan.social]
My ASCII table showing a list of my license codes. Starting with a 8.1 and 10 Pro licenses, three Windows 10/11 Education licenses, and every edition of Windows Server since 2019.
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026
Wait am I contributing to union busting in this assessment scenario?!
Samuel: In one incident, some files were accidentally deleted. In another incident, an employee accessed all the salaries of all employees, and subsequently a number of staff demanded higher salaries. (The Enable Auditing bit is just a note)
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026
Holy fuck does the anti-woke crowd in Steam Creators tab need to touch to green blades and breath in that woke photosynthesised greeny air. Like I have issues with UE5 (given a lot of studios have found it to be a bit much for their use case, and generally […] [Original post on donphan.social]
A Steam Creator titled "FUCK UE5"

Followed by "Unreal Engine 5 https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/unreal-engine/epic-cplusplus-coding-standard-for-unreal-engine#inclusivewordchoice" for every game listed
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026
"We're improving search by removing shit people have complained about for years!" "We're also introducing new shit no one asked for to Windows Search, making the resource hog that is the Windows Indexer... even worse and you still can't find any files!"
GamersNexus community post "Microsoft adds 'AI' to Windows Explorer Search and yet a basic file name search in Explorers still can't find any files. Peak Microslop."

Shows a screenshot of the new searchbar with the text "Try describing an image" with the trademark AI sparkle icon.
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026
This game is literally American Healthcare Simulator. >> upload your consciousness to a giant uncaring megacorp >> head to the surface of a polluted planet filled with trigger happy police and other people looking to put bullets in your head >> die or escape […] [Original post on donphan.social]
Screen from Marathon showing my account's "assets" (weapons, credits, upgrades, shell improvements, etc) being liquidated by CyberAcme aka "CyAc". The morally correct company that owns you.
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026
It's not called "Windows" any more, but rather Windows/GNU or Windows + GNU as I have taken to calling it. Source: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/mic…
On the software side, several developer-centric changes are coming to Windows 11, particularly for users of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Microsoft is introducing a Windows-native version of the coreutils command line tools, so that commands or scripts made for Linux work within Windows and the other way around; the ability to run WSL inside of containers, said to be arriving in “the coming months”; and something called Windows Developer Configurations that uses the WinGet tool to quickly set up “a distraction-free dev environment with VS Code, GitHub Copilot, WSL, PowerShell 7 and developer-optimized settings with one command on any Windows 11 device.”
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026
Why the fuck does Bunnings (a hardware store) have an AI chatbot shoved in it?! Who the heck asked for this?!
The header of Bunnings Warehouse's website.Close-up of the button
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2026
I know I am kind of preaching to the crowd here but so many people seem to be actively seeking to misinterpret the 26-27 Budget in the worse possible way ("won't someone think of my rich investor lifestyle when doesn't want to work!"). Yes, it does heavily tax […] [Original post on donphan.social]
A moronic YouTube comment

God forbid anyone wants to have a crack, get ahead, and not die in their office chair. | agree with you completely about negative gearing funneling unproductive money into unproductive things. But investing in stocks is the opposite of that, and theyve gutted that too. Didn't need to go that far.
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026
Stolen from a friend on Discord but hey it's absolutely fits here.
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026
Not gonna, I burst out laughing reading the last bit.
The environmental section of KDE's 30th anniversary page suggesting ideas to try improve the environment, or FOSS. With the final one being "Take 30 techbros to court so they stop building AI datacentres".
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026
Excuse me, but the WTF Forza Horizon 5. I really wish Steam actually had a feature to limit what textures you want so you're not downloading 4K textures if your on a 1080p/1440p monitor and don't need the detail because you can't see it anyway.
The steam install button showing Forza Horizon 5 requiring 176.64GB
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026
I'm thinking about doing some penguin slapping.
Me on Discord:

That's it; I'm manhunting every last Microsoft employee
FUCK WINDOWS SERVER 2025
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026
Not gonna lie, this accidental screenshot goes really hard
A screenshot from the game "Baldur's Gate 3". Their Wild Shaped (shapeshifted) in their Wolf form, staring at an another Druid who's Wild Shaped in to a bear. Their in conversation with each other. The camera is at a side angle looking towards my Druid roughly at the bear's perspective.
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/04/2026
Normal size 88x31 button that you can use on your website should you wish. Including some HTML should you wish to offload requests to my website (or at least make it's whatever updates I do to it). "<a href="https://fluxfox.dev"> <img class="old_button" […] [Original post on donphan.social]
A non-upscaled version for sharing on your own websites
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/04/2026
WTF Windows, this was just after start up.
Windows 11 Task Manager showing Windows using 47.6 Gigabytes out of 64GB of RAM.

This was just after starting up Windows.
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2026
Did this twice, forgot to share the first one which was some Austrian bloke who more focused on balance between the Systematic and chaotic and then this one (the second test) is pretty accurate (I have Asperger's). german.millermanschool.com
The Result: Autistic [33% German; 64% Autistic]

The patterns here are neurological rather than cultural, or at least that's the more parsimonious explanation. The intensity of focus, the difficulty with ambiguity, the literal relationship to what people say versus what they mean — these are features of a particular kind of mind, not a particular national character.

There's a reason Wittgenstein spent years trying to establish what language actually means when it appears to mean something. There's a reason the Tractatus ends with "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." Some problems aren't solved — they're dissolved when you finally understand what was confusing you.

The capacity for systematic thought is not a disorder. The difficulty is that the world is not, in fact, systematic, and other people's behaviour is governed by rules that are never written down and shift without announcement.

This is more information than a 15-question quiz can establish. Take it as a direction, not a verdict.
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2026
Democracy wins again!.
Me proposing a "Bill" to classify someone as being a bit freaky and starting a vote.The Bill passed 4 to 1
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2026
Yep Epic took their sweet time. I remember when they were promising this would come in 2018, being a kid and actually waiting for new years so I could play Save the World when it went free to play
Epic game's store ad showing that Fortnite's Save the World mode will be going free to play.
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/03/2026
Interesting door placement.
A door of an old brick building... that's a metre and half off the ground for some reason???
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2026
That sounds about right for the community.

"Pokémon Fans Are Begging New Fire Starter Pombon to Stay on All 4 Legs When It Evolves"
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2026
Mozilla finally released the option to fully opt out of AI crap and have also apparently also made pretty sizeable improvements in the latest update??? Oh and their actually using Kit so more foxes in the fox browser I guess.
A screenshot of Firefox's new "AI Controls" following the massive criticism they received that allows you to disable AI related features and popups.
Screenshot showing recent performance improvements... and kit.
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/02/2026
This being a comment by GamersNexus on their video investigating the shady ties of Discord to people like Thiel. They aren't even legally required at all in Aus and if they were the use of a facial and ID scans for age verification is actually illegal by the […] [Original post on donphan.social]
But there's more! One of our Australian viewers Martyn) has actually communicated with their local MP about some of these laws and sent some information that makes the case even worse for Discord. Our viewer's local MP office said that if Discord were affected by the new law and if it had to comply (which it technically isn't due to the lack of social media platform classification), "it would actually be illegal for them to ask for ID or face scans" (per the viewer) but because they are exempt from the new law, they "are allowed to do whatever they want." In our opinions here, this makes things even worse for Discord. Our thanks to viewer Martyn for telling us this information from their MP! Watch our videos about PALANTIR to learn more about the company that recently partnered with NVIDIA and is now indirectly connected via Thiel
to Discord
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/02/2026
Wish I could reply lmao. Like they asked a question and because their not bridged I can't actually respond
Mastodon Direct Message from Bridgy Fed: "Hi! Here are your recent interactions from people who aren't bridged into the fediverse:

    bsky.app/profile/did:pl... 

To disable these messages, reply with the text 'mute'."
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2026
Context for the confused.
Context for the video above. An email with the headers.

From: Jeffrey Epstein
Date: Wad, 22 Jul 2009 12;40:46 -0400
To: [REDACTED]
Subject: Re:

i feel like batman or halo
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2026
I would rather Epstein *doesn't* blow me away. Thanks.
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026
Now to probably the time to suggest possible alternatives to Adobe even after announcing their now *not entirely* killing the product you're paying for.
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2026
They brought the overcompensation trunk to fortnite.... why.
The Fortnite item shop listing for the Ford F-150, an oversized American truck that is the definition what Urbanists hate.
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2026
PlayStation store try to show the correct localisation for a region challenge, literally impossible. Like in this example literally an Australian-made game, being viewed here, with the console set to English and the system still screws up. Some regions […] [Original post on donphan.social]
The game icon for Hollow Knight's Voidheart Edition on Playstation, for some reason the game's details are in Spanish despite everything being set to Australian English.
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2026
I'm not a game dev, but this seems like such a basic feature to not include with the game at launch. No wonder why the game runs terribly when any kind of distance is shown.
A screenshot from Monster Hunter Wilds' Ver.1.040.03.01 patch notes. (aka the PC-only performance and bug patch)

The text is as follows: "For example, we are currently verifying measures to reduce GPU processing load by adding quality levels (LOD) to the polygon mesh for 3D models. This may help to reduce processing load by swapping to low-resolution models for objects farther away from the camera."
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/01/2026
Just some boring, low effort, long distance lakeshots whilst in Canberra.
Zoomed in shot towards a planted field across Lake Burley Griffths in Canberra, Australia (the Capital of the Commonwealth/Federation).Some boats sailing over the lake.An extremely blurry 100x zoom shot attempt of the boats from the otherside of the lake.
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/01/2026
Kind of chilling at the national museum, found some progressive protest badges which are kind of cool.
A collection of badges worn by Australian protestors, frequently focusing on LGBT, native land, environmental, women's and nuclear non-proliferation issues.
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/01/2026
Made the mistake of trying to finish Halo 5's (infamous) campaign today. It's been a minute. (Only started today and yet)
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/01/2026
There's something slightly cursed about seeing Game Freak and Xbox on the same picture. That said I'm actually kind of hyped to play Beast of Reincarnation, I actually have played Game Freak's non-Pokemon games like Harmoknight. Which was an underrated banger on the 3DS.
The Steam Event banner for the Xbox Developer Direct showing off Game Freak's new game Beast of Reincarnation.

Game Freak are the developers/creators of the Pokemon series have become extremely associated with it.
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2026
Surely both of these are illegal right? That is a lot of data for what should just be a basic sign in feature and no ease way to delete your account. This is for Destiny: Rising, a gacha spin off of the Destiny series by NetEase.
Destiny rising's OAuth permissions for Discord. The game suspiciously asks for access to your friends, status and messages as well as the ability to send messages and modify your friends' list on your behalfNetEasw's account deletion process requiring a purchase to delete your account.
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/01/2026
Google Maps.
A listing for a "Tourist Attraction" in Sydney titled "I like Irmak" with a photo of the Lorax in Roblox saying "I like fem boys, when I see them i let it grow".
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2026
Found this lil’guy chilling on staircase in the near the City of Sydney (aka the CBD). Looks almost like a blue tongue.
Photo taken of a lizard sitting upright on a white concrete slop, behind them are plants and likely shelter for it. The lizard has golden and black stripes.
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/01/2026
Some quick, and dirty photos I took during a drizzy walk through Darling Quarter today. Mostly just some neat looking buildings, a playground using water machinery and fountains.
A empty field usually used for events, to the right as an entertainment centre and to the left an auditorium for live shows. The skyscrapers of Sydney's CBD (Central Business District) are in the background.A small portion of a children's playground where one can open gates for water to pass or be trapped. Other parts include manual water pumps and miniature metal water mills not shown in the picture.Tall Curved glass buildings with ground level restraunts, each of them using wooden pillars to provide sheltered outdoor seating. The tiled concrete path is reflective with puddles.Water fountains jetting from the footpath into a shallow pool in the background are trees and a highly elevated road.
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/01/2026
@volpeon I'm laughing at how it's so underwelming and the AI bubble is now geniunely starting to implode, that their stock is actually worse than before. Didn't even mention any really consumer related... at a consumer tech expo.
AMD's stock price over 5 days, it's trading for a bit less than it did 5 days ago, and just platoued.
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025
[Fucked up imagery here, may contain traces of "baguette boys". You have been warned.] Oh fuck they've begun to invade Melbourne.... actually nah they can keep it.
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/12/2025
@volpeon Rookie numbers The 64 GB of DDR5 I bought went from $359 Australian Dollars (AUD) TO $1,099 BY THE SAME FUCKING RETAILER! This is beyond ridiculous.
A record my my purchase of 64GB of DDR5 RAM for $359 Australian DollarsThe current day listing but the same retailer for the product I bought in 2023.

Their charging small $1,099 AUD for a product I paid $359 back in 2023?!
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/12/2025
@h It might actually be worse depending on how you do the math. Some 32GB RAM kits are going for $700 AUD
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/11/2025
Ngl it's kinda funny how at some point in the 18th Century some forgotten islands (Forfolk and Pitcairn Islands) part of the British Empire started culturally seperating, and they still speak like their from the 18th Century
Table showing Pitkern to English translations
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/11/2025
You have no idea how much it means to me to see the thing I spent a month doing actually get a little note in wplace!
Corner of my D1 artwork with a note from someone saying "So peak (heart)"
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Flux @umbreon.donphan.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2025
[very minor spoiler Legends ZA, suicide mention] This game is tell me to kill myself lmao.
Mission name: The city under the Shadow of Prism Tower
Objective :Take a leap of faith.
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