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Purple is my natural hair color. I have strong opinions about software and sometime I even get to make them reality. Same for the state of the world in […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ social.treehouse.systems/@valpackett, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 23/09/2026
[re: war] @whitequark oh wtf that's, that's not a smol one,, also uhhhh.. huh?? those sure are two results
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 23/09/2026
[food] Continuing the food thread… I didn't know what to do with kale (didn't rly enjoy kale chips sorry) until I just did pretty much the same thing I do to everything: throw it into the skillet with other stuff :D Now I do this pretty often […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]
Skillet close-up with the food described in the post..
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 20/09/2026
GitHub's landing page is all about slopifying your business and so on but their CI run examples on the screenshot include fixes for Internet Explorer 12 and 11. Does anyone even remember IE anymore? I guess you could say that the one good thing "AI" […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]
github.com "Automate your path to production" "Ship faster with secure, reliable CI/CI." with a screenshot of CI runs, among them "Fix IE12 incompatibilities" and "Fix IE11 incompatibilities"
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 15/09/2026
new art unlocked
Laptop screen, mostly black, litle white squares in a repeating random ish pattern in a few blocks towards the bottom right corner, some part of a terminal emulator visible on the very corner. But the dirty lens produced biiig vertical smears on all the white squares in the photo
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 14/09/2026
Huh, these days LineageOS does not complain at all about not having reset userdata and just picks everything up from a stock ROM… to very cursed results
Notification shade with:

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<View details>App menu with "All Docum…", "Amaze GO!", "Ball Sort P…", "Block Blast!", "Bubble Sh…", "Candy Cru…", "ChatGPT", "Temu", "Tile Explorer", "Vita Mahjo…", and stock basic apps from LineageOS including very characteristic ones like AudioFX
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 14/09/2026
lol portuguese UI just abbreviates sexta-feira as "sex"?? that's… fun i guess :D
"sex 28 de ago 20:04"
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 13/09/2026
Achievement unlocked: get a shoutout in a talk that also features the strange æons “nosy bitch” meme :D @drakulix o/
media.ccc.de player: slide titled “SIDE-QUESTS” with a screenshot of codeberg repo view for wl-cross-domain-proxy with my commit being the latest
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 12/09/2026
Actually the hard part is making contacts for the stock button x_x "Thin wires in the vague place where the spring will be" obviously don't work lol
Milk frother wand disassembled in two halves, motor installed, with a small lithium ion battery cell, a charging PCB with a USB-C port, a flyback diode, another diode in series, and metal wires reaching up into the space where the lid is (that is supposed to touch AA batteries, with these curved metal tab springs)
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 10/09/2026
Finally found one of those disposable vapes, without specifically looking for one. Someone, uh, disposed of it right in the bike lane. That's a whole-ass 3.7V 900mAh cell!! (112038) And an 8051 based MCU of course. Probably not gonna just keep […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]
Diaassembled disposable vape with a rectangular cell and the PCBs (one little button one attached perpendicularly to the main one that has the LED panel (with fixed icons to shine thru) and the MCU amd stuffDisassembled super cheapo milk foamer, just a motor and a battery compartment directly powering the motor
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 07/09/2026
My first #CriticalMass \o/ this was fun, even if it did give me critical(ly sore) ass after cycling through the entire length of the city back and forth. Best part: DOGGO! Second best part: the DJ blasting “Blue” by Eiffel 65. 📷: Lumix GF5 / Lumix 20mm f/1.7.
A tricycle with a big sound system in the back, with a white frame and a suspension fork. Also a big white flag with a logo on it, and a small Argentina flag, all in the back on vertical poles. Other bicycles and their owners are all around. It’s all on a public square in the middle of a highway, buildings are visible in the background A little flag of Argentina hanging from a pole horizontally attached (like outwards) to a bike suspension fork that also has a wide wooden box with a metal electronics (audio) box inside. Background is quite blurred but you can see there are people with bicyclesA tiny dog, chihuahua, in a red plastic milk crate mounted to the rear rack of a bicycle
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 03/09/2026
[food] Today’s edition of Fried What’s-left-after-not-getting-groceries-in-a-week: 2 onions, a carrot, a bag of tofu, a bell pepper, a can of corn, and parmesan type cheese. Pretty good! Probably the best I managed to make tofu taste at home so far […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 01/09/2026
[juvenile] @whitequark
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 26/08/2026
Greetings to @metalab 🇦🇹 friends who visited @rlab 🇦🇷 yesterday!!
Four stickers: exit sign with vim "esc : w q ! Enter" keys, "NSA Monitored Device", "Off the record", and Metalab logo
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 24/08/2026
Have you ever opened a glass-back phone with nothing but estradiol pill blisters, only to put it in the freezer? …yeah so my old OP7T that my roommate was using. Suddenly not responding, not even to long presses. Popped out the battery, turned it on […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]
Phone open from the back, back glass panel on the side, two pill blister packsForum post screenshot:

Solipsfilm* - New member - Jan 9, 2025 - #38

 SAVED ALL MY DATA!

Usually I don't type all caps, but I really found a fix for those needing to quickly get their data back.

I noticed that it would try to boot better before crashing if the phone was cold so naturally I put it in the freezer for 20min to see what would happen.. To my disbelief the phone started up and worked for 3 minutes before crashing again with these artifacts on the screen and going back to bootloop..

So I took my laptop, a long USB-C cable then I put the phone in the freezer, door closed, cable hanging out and sat next to the freezer (-18°C) and managed to copy all of my foto's and videos from the device! Copied over an hour and half so it was pretty stable!


The moment I took it out of the freezer (the phone had ice all over the screen 😂) it crashed within 5 minutes again when it heated up. I saved 79GB worth of data from it!

Extremely relieved I didn't loose 8 months worth of video, foto's and messages.
So yeah, I was lucky and it was a good lesson that backups are very important 😅

Oh important sidenote, before all this I charged the battery to 100% because when the phone is that cold it doesn't charge in the freezer! If you don't get anything on the screen at first it is in a crash loop or the battery is too dead. While plugged in: Hold volume up and power button at the same time (sometimes it takes about a minute to respond) until you see the logo. Then it should go to the charging screen where you can leave it until charged.

Really hope this helps someone else out saving their data.

Good luck!Phone in a freezer on top of plastic food containers, open back side up, battery inserted, USB cable going out of the freezer
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 24/08/2026
Woooo hecking yes \o/ the True 100% Zero-Copy Fast Path for Wayland SHM sharing over virtio-gpu works!! This has been kind of an open side-quest for me for like a year. Finally was motivated to actually-just-do-it by the fact that on Xen it's […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 18/08/2026
@0xabad1dea "the washington monument" lol i'm sorry the yankee obelisk is hidden in bumfuck nowhere and has never even worn a condom
the obelisk covered in a giant red condom
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 11/08/2026
@krutonium that logo is kinda VHS vibes
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 11/08/2026
had some coffee-infused pla filament for a couple months.. finally got a reason to use it xD #3dprinting
A moka pot basket in a printed support and with a printed funnel on top, all standing on the bottom part of the pot
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 08/08/2026
[SLOP SLOP SLOP (visual)] What in the fucking shit is this stupid crap
"YouTube Playables", with all AI slop thumbnails: "Gas Station", "Train Miner", "My Mini Mart", "Makeover Stylist", "Running Pet"
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 02/08/2026
Finally got an internal gear hub installed on my bike (got a lucky local deal on a lightly used Nexus 7.. ha why does that sound like a tablet name-) aaaaaaa it’s so good now. Fuck derailleurs, all my homies hate derailleurs.
Close up photo of the rear wheel of a parked folding bicycle, with an ice cream cone in front (for scale, err, to celebrate). The wheel hub is thicc and there’s only one sprocket visible outside.
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 27/07/2026
Ah yes the USB modes we know and love,
Notifications <Clear all>
USB Mode Selector
USB netboot_mode mode
Select mode to change the connection
D… er | Te… g | C… ng | MTP | ho… e
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 07/07/2026
also errorception. Absolutely nothing works I guess
Previous screenshot in a mastodon client, on a red background, "Subida fallida", retry/remove buttons
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 07/07/2026
mm yes love to have a certificate error in a —(checks notes)— pair of proprietary mobile apps connecting to each other entirely locally
Error:

java.security.cert.CertPathValidatorException: Trust anchor for certification path not found.
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 29/06/2026
today in gratuitous overconsumption (by my standards okay??): the save icon ssd cage has arrived yay
gray floppy disk shaped object with an adapter pcb inside and a 2230 m.2 SSD mounted to it, light lime colored cover
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 27/06/2026
lmao
"NSFW ASS KNUCCLES" (white-on-red NSFW badge covering part of the "BRASS KNUCCLES" [sic] label inside of the image)
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 24/06/2026
the mastodon OCR had a great time with the logos. ah yes love to work for LocKweeD marTin. 420 blaze it am i right
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 24/06/2026
i saw the home page of gitlab dot com accidentally when logging in to respond to a comment and what in the holy corposlop is any of this even beyond "AI this AI that"… what the hell is SAST and DAST?!
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 17/06/2026
eXCUSE ME???
In-page Google Translate translating "FedEx Economy" as "FedEx Paralympics"
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 11/06/2026
Quite the "shot by the footgun" moment: "why is my thread getting entirely corrupted and overwritten with garbage? it's like several pages away from the shared memory…?!" Well, _at the time of crash due to accessing TLS_ the memory map looks like […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]
gdb session inspecting $fs_base in two threads (coherent in one, garbage in another), and proc mappingsside by side code view, on the left the highlighted part is

`base: slice.ptr_guard_mut().as_ptr().cast::<c_void>()`

on the right there's a definition of `PtrGuard` which has just addr and len but conditionally on `feature = "xen"` also has an `MmapXenSlice` that makes it an actual guard
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 07/06/2026
Ha. You can now buy USB C-to-C dongles that add the 5.1K resistors on the CC lines that the manufacturers of whatever cheap noncompliant legacy device were too ignorant/lazy/stupid/greedy to include. Amazing.
"5.1K Charging Adapter

Built-in Pull-Down Resistor

Small Appliance Charging"

type c plug-to-receptacle dongle well you can imagine

uS$ 4.97, 2.0k+ sold, 4.9 ★
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 30/05/2026
@whitequark (c)annot ass
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 28/05/2026
of course all of this was just to finally have a picture to accompany a pull request to a CD ripping app that would mark it as mobile friendly on flathub and in phosh.. ah, and to quickly read a friend's CT scan disc just in time before she needed to send it. yeah that too was important,,
L7 -  scatter the rats CD sleeve (signed) on top of the laptop CD/DVD drive connected via adapter pcbs to a phone, phone showing a CD ripping app with the album details, cover art and tracklist
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 28/05/2026
took this as an opportunity to test the logic analyzer from the haha pee company.. (the coax probe cables are kind of a pain to use lol) uhh hmmm is this even a link problem? is the chip okay?
bunch of coax probe cables, yellow probes hooked onto the two USB lines, black probes grabbing the dvd drive's shield lolPulseView window showing decoded USB packets, with SETUP ADDR 0 EP 0 and DATA0 [ 80 06 00 01 00 00 40 00 ] and then short weird things that show up with "Packet: Invalid: Invalid packet (shorter than 8 bits)" before another repeat of that data
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 28/05/2026
low speed my ASS. apparently usb 1/2 just doesn't work over bodge wires?? (i don't have thicker wire without plundering breadboard cables oops) is my "close enough" length matching by eye not actually close enough for the diff pair? xD
laptop dvd drive with a sata-usb adapter pcb wired to a usb-c breakout pcb using very thin purple cables. all in front of a monitor showing dmesg about USB failing to read device descriptor etc.
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 20/05/2026
lmao I popped out the rustweek stream into picture-in-picture in firefox and it just showed this subtitle (it doesn't update, as it's not even from the stream, but what video would it even be from lmao??)
"I just saw this video of someone talking about how funny their neighbors' Wi-Fi"
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 19/05/2026
they tell you that the new arm native proton with wine-arm64ec fex makes everything awesome and fast but what they don't tell you is that specifically your favorite games don't work (yet)
"Problems/Workarounds

Needs __attribute__((hybrid_patchable)) dxgi functions

The game hooks dxgi vtable functions and tries to patch them. Needs dxvk/dxgi changes. Which makes it not work in arm64ec Wine. Fully emulating Wine can work around the problem."
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 15/05/2026
[nsfw shaped food] lmao
a carrot with a very phallic shape (two "balls")
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 13/05/2026
no 🅱️oisons
packaging "Fly Catcher" (those sticky tape rolls) that says "• No Baiting • No Boisons • No Vapors • No Mess"
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 10/05/2026
latest whatsapp "works" with ATL after some extra tinkering.. lolol
whatsapp chat with official whatsapp account showing the app news in spanish

"only whatsapp can send messages"

"hamburger" menu (which is white on white button, white background contents android menu inside of a dark theme gtk popover) also shown with "Search", "Block", "Mute notifications", "Chat theme", and "more"whatsapp privacy settings window:

Privacy checkup

Control your privacy and choose the right settings for you. <font
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If turned off, you won't send or receive Read receipts. Read receipts are

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Start new chats with disappearing messages set to your timer

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Avatar stickers

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Silence unknown callers

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Blocked accounts, WhatsApp contacts

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large window with comically stretched pixelated whatsapp logo, meta logo and "from" all overlapping each other
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 10/05/2026
is this something? is this anything? #gnome #wayland #gtk
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 04/05/2026
Lmao. A couple days ago I was making an "enshittification collage" for a meme in a presentation and I just. couldn't. for the life of me, find a goddamn screenshot of a specifically "thousand partners" cookie banner using online image search […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]
"We and our 1022 partners process your personal data…"
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 27/04/2026
i heard you like firefox so we put a firefox in your firefox so you can fire when you fox #gtk #gnome #casilda #wayland
Firefox window with a "broadway 2.0" tab, "Casilda Compositor" header inside, below a few windows (GTK demo and another Firefox showing add-ons page), web inspector showing an img tag for the inner Firefox. The window img tags have blob: URLs. GTK demo icon scroller shows 7 fps.
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 24/04/2026
The #GitHub Slopocalypse is really real. I didn't even see the mangled merges thing, I was just typing a PR description yesterday and the text composer just went nuts! The WORLD'S BIGGEST CODE FORGE is going absolutely DOWN THE TOILET in quality […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 11/04/2026
what the fuck lmao CIX announced an overclocked version of the CD8180 marketed specifically as an "OpenClaw CPU"??? (link) might as well call it DeleteMyEmailsCPU lol
March 23, 2026 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 3 Comments

CIX ClawCore Armv9.2 CPU family targets OpenClaw deployments

OpenClaw was just introduced a few months ago, but we’ve already seen several low-footprint implementations, and some companies even ship mini PCs preloaded with OpenClaw. But today, I was just informed that CIX had gone further, and introduced the ClawCore Armv9.2 CPU family specifically designed/optimized for OpenClaw. The family will be comprised of three main SKUs: ClawCore-P (勁螯芯  “Powerful Claw”) – High-performance model with 12-core CPU @ 3.2GHz, Immortalis-G720 GPU, 45 TOPS AI compute, and support for up to 64GB LPDDR5 RAM. Aimed at high-parallelism, large-capacity scenarios. Shipping starts now in March 2026. ClawCore-A (智螯芯  “AI/Smart Claw”) – Octa-core CPU @ 3.0GHz, 80 TOPS AI compute (expandable to 200 TOPS via PCIe AI card), up to 64GB LPDDR5. It’s designed for 24/7 use, supports full-chain ECC, hardware security (encryption/key management), and enables up to 50% reduction in model token costs via local inference. In practise, 80 to 90% of requests […]
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 09/04/2026
Absolutely hilarious, can't believe it actually happened… I went to read @expede 's great article about a deadlock prevention library and it uhhhhhhhh deadlocked my Firefox?? Clearly Mozilla should look into adopting surelock 🙃 (Well idk if it's […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 30/03/2026
@mntmn diiing (says the linux phone) actually lots of things are not there yet tho. the clock does not set up rtc wake yet so if the phone goes to sleep the timer won't ring (i'll work on that myself). and the sound volume control is not […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]
phosh lockscreen with a "Clocks - Time is up!" notification
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 29/03/2026
Halftone (the dithering app) makes mobile linux photos look so good. This is like the early days of mobile apps again, except built to last and without any ads #postmarketOS #shotonpmos
latte and cheesecake
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 29/03/2026
ah yes love too live and breathe water
smol white plastic rectangle with segment lcd showing 26. 1°C and 78% (and a (-^-) face)
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 26/03/2026
[lewd word owo] now that's a thumbnail crop
"cummVM"
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Val Packett 🧉 @val.packett.cool · 24/03/2026
Achievement unlocked: record a video with sound and post it immediately from the street with #postmarketOS (warning, sound is loud and blown out completely heh) If you don't know what day it is here in Argentina, please do look it up. #NuncaMás
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