Hey, a friend of mine worked on this project, since they're not taken on by the big guys, they're releasing on their own on youtube, so all the views and shares they can get is a huge help to ensure their success, and secure my friend's job!
Plus the show is cool :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeAqnHywrx8

@soatok Nomaxice here, bit of a jack of all trade so it's hard to pick just one but let's go for "retro".

I've always been fascinated with anything mechanic and electronic to find out at the core how things work, as things grew complex in modern days, I found a love for the older, simpler, yet elegant solutions of so many things of the past, from typewriters, to adding machines, from early computers, to old cars.

I've gone and built quite a collection, a hoard really of various contraptions, my office space has half a dozen typewriters, two adding machines, computers from the 80s up to the 2000s, and one of my favorite things to do is to not just make those things work as they were intended to, but also mix and match different eras of things to function together.

My modern computer? The audio goes to a 70s analog amp, the printer is an 80s dot matrix, and I got a 2X speed floppy drive to swap files with my 90s DOS PC where I like to do story drafts.
My 8Gbps internet box? Its VoIP is hooked to a few rotary dial phones from the 80s.
My main cameras? A 35mm from the 80s, and until recently a polaroid from that era (RIP gear train), along with my camera phone.
Switching between my smart watch and a 40s pocket watch, and so on.

Finding ways to keep the old stuff living in a useful way is amazing, and shows that there's a lot of "obsolete" stuff that actually works damn well as is and we don't always need the latest gadget to do 4*9.

@ndoto I've fallen upon the videos of james hoffman who made a few "beginner's" videos for latte art and whatnot, which has been really helpful o.o

I'll actually share that one, I've finally got a result you can recognize as latte art. Still a lot to learn, but I'm proud regardless, that I've managed to get something with shape. I've learnt more in half a dozen short videos from a guy on youtube than a month's work as a barista.
Given I'm using incredibly cheap hardware, I'm glad I'm pulling this off at all, and tastes pretty alright too.

@anselmschueler 10⁄10 love it

We are reaching the end of our latest TTRPG campaign and, as usual, I got way too attached to my character. So I asked @laBeteNwar for a sweet, happy and wholesome depiction of his younger days, spent with his former boss, best friend, business partner and adoptive father. ♥

Hey, a friend of mine worked on this project, since they're not taken on by the big guys, they're releasing on their own on youtube, so all the views and shares they can get is a huge help to ensure their success, and secure my friend's job!
Plus the show is cool :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeAqnHywrx8

Hey si vous vous rendez à FCD et que vous n'êtes pas équipé pour la convention il est encore temps de passer commande d'un badge. Pour l'occasion, j'ouvre 2 slots à prix réduit! Bien sur, il est possible et encouragé de demander un dessin sur le thème de la convention! Si ça vous intéresse, n'hésitez pas à me contacter au plus vite! La convention arrive à grand pas! Merci de votre attention :)

la.bete.nwar[@]gmail.com

Alright I think I'm lost
(📷: @FluffyTail)

# April 2025 finance report! :boost_requested:​

# Donation links

· https://patreon.com/meowsocial
· https://ko-fi.com/meowsocial
· https://liberapay.com/meow.social
· https://paypal.me/meowsocial

# Expenses

· Meow's bill was 465€

# Income

· Meow raised 450€ total
· Patreon covered 214€
· Ko-Fi covered 221€
· Liberapay/Paypal covered 15€

# Net difference

· -14€ 🔴

# Staff balance
· 100€

# Added note

That was a huge month, holly fluff! Y'all almost allowed us to have zero out of pocket (due to the lag between donations and the bills, the "staff balance" is higher to make up for the previous months' difference, hence why it's much higher than the difference this month!)
And in further good news, spoiler alert, optimisations on our end means that we'll save big from there on, too!
Thank you all, you amazing creatures!

If I could travel in time to watch a race live, which one would it be?

There's a very good chance it would be a race from the 90s, but other than that, the 1953 French GP - The Race of the Century - springs to mind. A legendary battle between Hawthorn and Fangio 🔥

A Ferrari 500 and a Maserati A6GCM battling during 500km at Reims-Gueux. The top 4 cars finished within 5 seconds of the leader - no yellows or SCs. Hawthorn, Fangio, González, Ascari and Farina in the top 5. LEGENDARY.

#art #furryart #leggy2fast

@Pheebs heck, no way to test the original floppy to check on original hardware I imagine?

@Pheebs If it loads it like it's a physical disk in the drive and going for the simulated sectors, it might just work!

@Pheebs Yeah the more I look at it, the more it looks like some copy protection system that specifically was made so that you couldn't easily copy a disk functionally as it would check for the pattern integrity upon program start, where a greaseweazle or the like will do a perfect copy of the actual data flux

@Pheebs ooooh, game disk, wonder if ti's some kinda of oddball game protection that's messing with the tracks?

@Pheebs That's.... odd, seems too pattern-y for accidental contact with a magnet, perhaps it was used in a bad drive at one point? Physical damage?

Fixing up an old laptop for my sister so my nephews can have one for school stuff and learn how to use a computer proper (sister is strongly against just hooking them up with a smartphone until high school)

I replace the old worn out spinning rust with a small SSD, clean up the OS and sets up her admin account and their non admin account, the basics they'll need and... ssd dies

Welp, fun, good thing I still have the spinning rust to redo the copy to another SSD lol

Still better than dealing with software tho