Shawn K. Quinn @skquinn@octodon.social
Blogger, videogame/pinball fanatic, face painting fanatic, technology enthusiast, road/transit geek, lover of the arts, rejector of (many of the stupider) gender norms, frequent volunteer. He/him #pinball #facepainting #artfan #artist #blogging
Joined Apr 2017
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someone just pointed out that pokemon go has lasted longer than the confederacy and i almost fell over
@glitchlogos
How exactly did you guys make this one?
@wxcafe Wow. So basically SMR is a way to combine the worst attributes of SSDs and conventional magnetic HDDs with, maybe, the small advantage of getting a bit more space? What is the advantage supposed to be?
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@selfsame [OBJECT POWER]
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Just finished printing one of the worst rolls of filament I've ever used. So happy it's gone and yet fulfilling an important job:
A whole load of "door openers", a little device which helps you to open/close doors without touching the door handle itself. Will hand them out to family, friends and neighbors.
You can print some, too! They're really rather - uhm - handy:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4231639
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@gemlog In my case it didn't help that I was flying at night, unable to see the mountains in front of me.
@gemlog Yep. Now I understand how it happens...
@fillertrack I didn't realize just how slow 100 megabit/s "Fast" Ethernet is until I got a machine that had gigabit.
TIL why it's important to know when you're flying over mountains (FlightGear flight simulator, thankfully I didn't screw up in a real plane). Long story short: cruise altitude of 6000 ft, mountainside was somewhere around 6050-6100 ft. Crunch.
@phooky Some days I wish they still made them like that. I could use a couple of those here and there.
@Felthry I can maybe get jalapeño but I can only imagine what kind of mental leap it took to vote bell pepper.
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A few quickies for 2020 March
Since the bars and arcades are temporarily shuttered, I've been stuck at home playing some old classics. This is a small sampling of my recent bests, in order:
Atari Video Cube, 1:57.3 (variation 12)
Atari 2600 Frostbite, 26340
Atari 2600 Midnight Magic, 483990
Atari 2600 Stampede, 3212 (I think this was variation 1)
Atari 2600 Super Football, 24-14 win versus computer
Atari Lynx...
http://www.skqrecordquest.com/2020/03/31/a-few-quickies-for-2020-march/
Speedy's Fast Track: Plastic is fantastic?
[Note: This post describes two visits from the latter half of February, well before the business closures and most event cancellations due to the COVID-19 pandemic began in the Houston area. For a variety of reasons, It took until now to actually get this post completed and ready to upload.]
Way, way back in the day, I checked out Speedy's Fast Track (possibly...
http://www.skqrecordquest.com/2020/03/30/speedys-fast-track-plastic-is-fantastic/
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if you haven't played through FF7 at least once renaming the characters things like "Shut Up" and "I Farted", you haven't lived
it was funny when I was 14 and it's funny now
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Urgent: No face recognition at music festivals https://gnusocial.no/url/1706456
Blogger, videogame/pinball fanatic, face painting fanatic, technology enthusiast, road/transit geek, lover of the arts, rejector of (many of the stupider) gender norms, frequent volunteer. He/him #pinball #facepainting #artfan #artist #blogging
Joined Apr 2017
