**fenwick ❔** @fenwick67@octodon.social · Feb 02, 2019, 20:40

**fenwick ❔** @fenwick67@octodon.social · Feb 02, 2019, 20:40

fenwick ❔ @fenwick67@octodon.social

fenwick ❔ @fenwick67@octodon.social

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Engineer, Developer, Person. He/him. I run https://www.mastofeed.com

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Feb 02, 2019, 20:40

fenwick ❔ @fenwick67@octodon.social

It's so crazy that a CD/DVD/CD burner drive is only $20.

Optical drives have a laser assembly that not only tracks inward and outward to follow the microscopic "groove" in the CD, but the lens shifts up, down, in and out on a tiny electromagnetic assembly, to adjust for warped disks and imperfections.

The motor speed is tightly controlled, and it reads and writes to a magic disk with lasers.

This thing is a miracle of engineering. And it costs less than a steak.

**fenwick ❔** @fenwick67@octodon.social · Feb 02, 2019, 20:15

**fenwick ❔** @fenwick67@octodon.social · Feb 02, 2019, 20:15

Feb 02, 2019, 20:15

fenwick ❔ @fenwick67@octodon.social

I love cheeky software dialogs TBH

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**fenwick ❔** · Jan 30, 2019, 22:11

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**Kasran** @typhlosion@awoo.space · Jan 30, 2019, 22:11

Jan 30, 2019, 22:11

Kasran @typhlosion@awoo.space

@jk i love the classic debussy song Hit Me Baby One More Time

**fenwick ❔** · Jan 30, 2019, 22:10

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**josef** @jk@mastodon.social · Jan 30, 2019, 22:10

Jan 30, 2019, 22:10

josef @jk@mastodon.social

claude debussys the only person whos ever written music

**fenwick ❔** @fenwick67@octodon.social · Jan 30, 2019, 21:45

**fenwick ❔** @fenwick67@octodon.social · Jan 30, 2019, 21:45

Jan 30, 2019, 21:45

fenwick ❔ @fenwick67@octodon.social

windows 98 experts, I need help.

I have an old thinkpad that came with a blank hard drive, i managed to install an old version of xubuntu on it for fun a while ago, how do I install windows 98 on this? It has a floppy and CD drive. Just obtain a copy of win98 on CD?

**fenwick ❔** @fenwick67@octodon.social · Jan 30, 2019, 19:51

**fenwick ❔** @fenwick67@octodon.social · Jan 30, 2019, 19:51

Jan 30, 2019, 19:51

fenwick ❔ @fenwick67@octodon.social

like literally here's one of the image URLs: https://gpu-us-east-1b.shapeways.com/service/sws_service_shapejs_rt_v1.0.0/makeImageCached?background=ffffff&jobID=DYGIk_5e543256c480ac577d30f76f9120eb74&view=1.000000%2C+0.000000%2C+0.000000%2C+0.000000%2C+0.000000%2C+1.000000%2C+0.000000%2C+0.000000%2C+0.000000%2C+0.000000%2C+1.000000%2C+-3.000000%2C+0.000000%2C+0.000000%2C+0.000000%2C+1.000000&objTrans=0.964068%2C+0.053663%2C+-0.260179%2C+0.000000%2C+-0.016690%2C+0.989685%2C+0.142283%2C+0.000000%2C+0.265131%2C+-0.132829%2C+0.955019%2C+0.000000%2C+0.000000%2C+0.000000%2C+0.000000%2C+1.000000&width=710&height=528&imgType=JPG&quality=1&antiAliasing=SUPER_3X3&bumpMaps=true&castShadows=false&maxRayBounces=1&style=Material&frameNum=119

**fenwick ❔** @fenwick67@octodon.social · Jan 30, 2019, 19:50

**fenwick ❔** @fenwick67@octodon.social · Jan 30, 2019, 19:50

Jan 30, 2019, 19:50

fenwick ❔ @fenwick67@octodon.social

Shapeways' 3d model viewer doesn't use 3d rendering in your browser, it literally sends a 3d transform and some parameters over to a server which sends back a rendered image of the object., that gets put in an <img> tag. This is wild.

**fenwick ❔** · Jan 24, 2019, 01:26

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**Bαshαbez** @Bashabez5@radical.town · Jan 24, 2019, 01:26

Jan 24, 2019, 01:26

Bαshαbez @Bashabez5@radical.town

Uuuuuuuhhhhhh... "Never" huh?

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**fenwick ❔** @fenwick67@octodon.social · Jan 24, 2019, 01:23

**fenwick ❔** @fenwick67@octodon.social · Jan 24, 2019, 01:23

Jan 24, 2019, 01:23

fenwick ❔ @fenwick67@octodon.social

If I ever see an Amazon delivery robot on the sidewalk I will personally vandalize it

**fenwick ❔** · Jan 21, 2019, 08:57

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**Xenon Fiber** @xenon@sleeping.town · Jan 21, 2019, 08:57

Jan 21, 2019, 08:57

Xenon Fiber @xenon@sleeping.town

here's the worst twitch clips i've ever created of that time i was watching a barnyard the game stream, lewd without content but also,,, Show more

**fenwick ❔** @fenwick67@octodon.social · Jan 19, 2019, 21:29

**fenwick ❔** @fenwick67@octodon.social · Jan 19, 2019, 21:29

Jan 19, 2019, 21:29

fenwick ❔ @fenwick67@octodon.social

I figured out how to get openGL programs compiling so I made a git repo: https://github.com/fenwick67/opengl-cmake-starter

**fenwick ❔** · Jan 18, 2019, 12:15

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**Z̈oé** @uint8_t@chaos.social · Jan 18, 2019, 12:15

Jan 18, 2019, 12:15

Z̈oé @uint8_t@chaos.social

@Jaddy I think you're right. Behold, the Airport Security Seal.

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**fenwick ❔** · Jan 18, 2019, 18:20

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🔗🌐 @HYPERLINK@radical.town · Jan 18, 2019, 18:20

Jan 18, 2019, 18:20

🔗🌐 @HYPERLINK@radical.town

really makes you think

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**fenwick ❔** · Jan 18, 2019, 19:24

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**nico afk** @nico@mastodon.social · Jan 18, 2019, 19:24

Jan 18, 2019, 19:24

nico afk @nico@mastodon.social

Ten reasons why MASTODON is stuck in the PAST-ODON (number 8 will shock and arouse you)

**fenwick ❔** · Jan 18, 2019, 10:45

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**Caffienation I persevere** @chengeling@mastodon.art · Jan 18, 2019, 10:45

Jan 18, 2019, 10:45

Caffienation I persevere @chengeling@mastodon.art

Watched this on the flight(Happiness Road). Pretty relatable and also interesting! It was being voiced in both Taiwanese(hokkien) and mandarin. Also grandmas on flying chickens is a thing I didn't know I needed. For the dream sequences they switched atyles of animation!