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Yeah I got much more selective, went nuts with it when Starter Packs came out like "oh hey this is great, I can add all these cool people to my fee-ohgodtheressomany." And it feels so much more awkward to unfollow someone after you've already followed them rather than just not following to start

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 1h

I absolutely made the mistake of following WAY too many people a while back and my feed is, in fact, overwhelming now, so yeah this tracks 😅

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Nevermind, apparently they do and I just didn't notice, I've been wearing the same hoodie from them for a decade so I haven't been back to the site recently 😅

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm all for extra pockets, I'd love if SCOTTeVEST made sport coats, on that note

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Small price to pay for real progress

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Finally someone comes up with a practical application for the every day user

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I've said it before and I'll say it again, we need to stop doing rotary wing aircraft.

Meme with the text
STOP DOING HELICOPTERS.

followed by a list of reasons: propellers were not meant to generate lift. Years of crashes with no real uses found for these flying death machines! Wanted to land on a basketball court? We had a tool for that, it was called THE PIPER CUB. "Yes please give me an aircraft without wings." Statements by MORONS

Followed by an illustrated section captioned with "LOOK at what helicopter pilots have been demanding your Respect for all this time with all the real STOL aircraft we built for them (these are real helicopters made by REAL people): with an image of two common helicopters as well as a more uncommon offset rotor model in the middle.

"Hello I would like a Flying Blender please"
They have played us for absolute fools

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Same, I've had 20 years of trying to get people to listen to me that there was a weird undercurrent of truly dangerous lunatics congregating on obscure forums they'd never heard of and I'm just. Tired. I don't want to assign more of my grey matter to remembering more unwashed online weirdos.

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Corrected "third" to "this," as usual there's no better spellchecker than hitting the "send" button 😅

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I had a lot of anger issues as a kid and that episode really did rattle around my head whenever I felt like going off on someone after I saw it. I even referenced this scene to someone a few weeks ago but couldn't find the clip at the time. I teared up so bad the first time I saw this

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It took the Habsburgs centuries what this guy has managed to accomplish in only a few years

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"From first principles" now reads to me as "I tried to learn how this works, got frustrated I didn't understand it immediately, and made up my own explanation instead because I'm such a smart person."

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scare-anatar 🎃 @vibecode.rodeo · 03/09/2026

Look, like it or not, Something Awful quietly solved moderation 20 years ago. This, the lepers colony, tiered probations, bans, and permas.

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

one thing I really miss about the earlier internet was that every online community used to have some variant of "rule #1: don't be a dick," which means "if you're not breaking any of the other rules but you just suck, hard, we'll ban you anyway," and while it wasn't perfect it helped a lot.

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

it's weird how much I miss the imps specifically looking like little goobuses in PJs. I get that there's all that Impling Lore and such now but there's gotta be a way to retcon these freaky little weirdoes back into the game.

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

There's definitely a sexist element of it for a lot of the people who are taken in by chatbot sycophancy, but yeah a lot of it just comes down to the fact that apparently all a lot of people want out of any relationship is someone to vigorously tell them how right, smart, and cool they are on a loop

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

That'll be why, RPM is a different beast to the .deb ecosystem, making it play nice is going to require a lot of extra packages and infrastructure that's never going to be quite as stable as the inbuilt Debian base you're starting with here, better to avoid them for deb/flatpak/appimage if possible

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I've pretty much always used quote posts this way (not that I have a big following to share it with but to try and add a thought without derailing the original thread) but I've been avoiding it lately as it seems like many people assume all quote posts are dunk attempts regardless of its content

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Anyway yeah I was tryna think of a snappy nickname for this permaDST thing effectively giving us a fully separate time system, and my first thought was "imperial time" but that sounds like a Star Wars dark ride so that's out, and "US Customary time" sounds too formal so I've got nothing haha

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Oh yeah, esp for weather related things it just has so much specificity in the band of temperatures that matter there. We already use C° in mat sci and other places where it's actually relevant anyway so it's not a huge deal these days haha.

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Yeah, living in San Antonio I can tell you it's going to absolutely fuck commerce up coming from Mexico for one thing. They've been keeping their DST system on life support just in the border regions for years to try and maintain sync but I think this is going to be a bridge too far

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I've wanted to get rid of DST for so long, but it's insane that they're picking the time that puts us out of sync with the entire hemisphere, forever. It's the chronological equivalent of sticking with miles and fahrenheit

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Lmao 100%, I love the CRT, as an object and from an appearance standpoint, and I partly love them because they're so dangerous and janky. Yes let's gather around the X-ray machine as it draws one pixel REALLY fast in a low pressure gas envelope. Deranged technology through and through

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Or rather, you *can,* but it'll emit truckloads of ionizing radiation in all directions so you really shouldn't 😅

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Far as I understand there were carve outs for the last remaining factories making the original parts and now you can use the old stock since you don't need to actually melt lead/strontium into a crucible to solder to the old tubes? But yeah you can't make CRTs without the radiation shielding

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

kinda for the best that CRT factories died off, though. Much as I love them, there's not really a way to make strontiated, leaded glass that comes close to complying with RoHS guidelines and those factories are a nightmare for heavy metal exposure to the workers.

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

oh, those are NOS from old video doorbells, affordable LCD panel slices killed the market overnight and they've been floating around ever since. Here's a rundown on em from the last time hardware hackers rediscovered them a few years back: geeseang.wordpress.com/experiment-w...

geeseang.wordpress.com

Experiment with Sony Flat 4inch CRT

Above is the 2 CRT module use in door telecom camera. The left module is china design CRT have larger neck diameter and the right one is SONY 04JM CRT . There is a 5.5inch Black and white CRT gun i…

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Since they only have to call Tom once or twice a week he doesn't show up on any of the product briefs on what a miracle it all is, but the system would grind to a screeching halt without him on call.

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Every "fully automatic" system I've ever seen seems to boil down to "a thing, a thing that maintains that thing, another thing to make sure both of those work correctly, a fallback in case all of those fall, oh and Tom, who hits all four of those with a wrench just right and replaces the bearings."

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I mean not to get all "if open source is not from the FSF region of the internet then it's just sparkling creative commons" or anything but it's always been my understanding that any "open source" license that doesn't allow commercial use is technically only considered a "source available" license

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

You don't use filament based machines, you'd use an SLA printer with biocompatible resins that fall within a suitable UV wavelength for the printer. Dental 3D printing is a mature industry already, my friend @bigjilm.bsky.social has been doing it for years now and is usually down to answer questions

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

It also proves just how false the central conceit of other modern platforms, namely that we must accept these recommendation algorithms or else we won't find things we otherwise want to watch, really is. I always find great stuff when I'm on Nebula despite the lack of an endless sludge feed.

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Nah, keep executing those horrible things, always online cartridge based inkjets have no place in a sane world, everyone gets free refillable ink tank machines or laserjets that use generic printer drivers over USB in Woke II

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

There was an aggregator called Dark Roasted Blend that I used to check religiously for interesting things. It seems to still be going but it looks like it's basically a skeleton crew just reposting links now. Back in the day it was a really wonderful, thoughtful blog about the Goings-On of the week.

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Oh that's the name of it! My partner was all but catatonic on our couch but for playing that game on her Steam Deck yesterday

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Common misconception, it's made BY gorillas, very unethical factory they have.

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Cosmically Funny @cosmicallyf.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Your mother was a hamster. She sewed my new blue jeans. Get that out of your head suckers!

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Shit. I followed too many people while looking for community so now I look like one of those guys I guess 😅

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Exactly, I've been charging my Bolt from a 240 socket for years and long before that I was using a 120 on my Volt, I've never even used a DC charger let alone some absurd sub-hour fast charge for mine

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I usually recommend people start with Guards, Guards! But just in case that gets me somehow labeled a radical in light of recent events I guess I'll recommend they start with Moving Pictures or Mort

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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

This user has been marked Safe ✅ from Recently Reskeeted by Alleged Attempted Presidential Assassin

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Really doesn't change the electrode cracking problems that the new LiNiCo chemistries have, I'm saying this as a longtime EV driver: the race for charging speed is being done recklessly and they're beta testing experimental chemistry/density improvements on unwitting end users

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

I was gonna say "I hope they bring back the Rollercoaster Tycoon CDs" but most people don't even have optical drives on their computers these days so I guess they'd just end up novelty coasters

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Tbf that's been the standard in enterprise software for decades, hence free or subsidized "educational" licenses for CAD, image/video editors, etc. it's a predatory practice in every one of those instances but it's very much the norm

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Yeah even the cheap new power tools are absurd compared to the hand-me-down stuff I've gotten from my dad, especially considering when considering torque or portability.

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I thought I'd see more Depeche Mode references than I have given how hard they called this one.

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Maybe it's just because I got way into TCGs at a young age or something but if l am presented with a mystery box and an "open it" button, I'm going to click it 9/10 times regardless of what it says above or below it

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James @xakh.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Exactly, it's not a coincidence that Facebook started lobbying for mandatory age verification right after tools to block them from gathering that same data became mainstream.

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