you can tell a good portion of the "girl mechanic x mechanical girl repair scene" posters on this website have never repaired a piece of technology because the mechanic is absolutely not the dom in that situation ninety percent of the time

People underestimate their own power.

Few people nowadays realize that we got rid of old chunky PS/2 ports only thanks to worldwide manifestations in favour of USB standardization, like here in Rome.

Trumpin syntymäpäivä ei ollut oikein suksee niin seuraava kansallinen juhla voisi olla hänen kuolinpäivänsä. Uskon, että se kerää enemmän iloisia karnevaalitunnelmaisia juhlijoita!

@dysfun I think I've watched that video a long time ago, actually.

@dysfun Yeah, this thought brought to you by me 1) noticing thermal printable CD-Rs are easily available 2) happening to pick up a lightscribe drive from a thrift store

So i dont actually have a lightscribe disk to try out yet (I have read some reviews of the tech and seen pictures, thats it) so I dont have personal experience with the drive speed during lightscribing, fascinating

(I might acquire a lightscribe disk or two just for experiments now, but yeah ... unlikely to be actually useful like that)

I have an odd question, that I bet nobody here really knows, but here goes...

Would a lightscribe CD/DVD drive be capable of leaving a mark on a "thermal printable" CD-R?

I mean, I'm not sure at all (like, how much power does the laser deliver in that mode vs what does "thermal paper" need to react), but also I think it'd be a bit annoying to "just try" because a thermal printable CD-R does not have the lightscribe rotational alignment pattern, so something would need to be done about that.

(If you could hack the drive firmware it'd be way easier I bet, like i'd guess the sensor would be able to pick up a rotational position with just a line of black marker on the inside or something like that... also you could like, blast the laser harder (and spin the disk slower) if necessary...)

Kalluppi on paikallaan.

Going "fungal". Like going viral, but more organic because you're on the Fediverse and no artificial algorithm helped.

Ei saa laittaa kiitoksia roskiin

"Tulevien sukupolvien hyvinvointi ja planeettamme tulevaisuus riippuvat siitä, uskallammeko nyt tukea niitä, jotka taistelevat elinkelpoisen tulevaisuuden puolesta.

Demokratia tarvitsee hälytyskelloja – joskus niitä on soitettava pahimpaan ruuhka-aikaan keskellä Mannerheimintietä." 2/2

#ilmastokriisi #elokapina #liitykapinaan ❤️

https://www.verdelehti.fi/2025/06/12/suffragetit-rosa-parks-martin-luther-king-elokapina-voiko-kansalaistottelemattomuudella-muuttaa-maailmaa/

where are the nixos girls when you need them

I was just staring at the Spotify desktop client (yeah i know it isnt the best thing to be using...) and.... it has zero actual music visualizers (it can show the music video, a short weird video clip ("canvas"), or the album art, but nothing that's just wacky visuals derived from the audio waveform.)

Why is our software so boring now?

I want winamp 2.91, and write some ridiculous visualizers (yeah winamp had/has a visualizer plugin that you could program in-app).

ea nasir is back baby awooo

"identity politics" will never go away until people stop targeting people for harm or limiting their freedoms based on identity.

The idea that I can put aside my identity as a queer woman when discussing my rights is ridiculous. I can't put aside a disagreement about my bodily autonomy, ya know! I can't "agree to disagree" over it.

the thing about reply guys who blame their behaviour on being autistic is they are often replying to another autistic person

because that's not what makes people assholes!

Nussi ympäri ja löydä ulos

@Mabande this reminds me of https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/102601289125824114 and https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/111557434469283960

Cautionary tale about checking your thumbnails before uploading.

How to Cope With Body Dysmorphic Disorder