@eniko was it you that reposted the thing about GBA ROMs being the truly resilient distribution format for software? anyway. yeah. yeaaah ^_^

I've been playing GBA on my bedroom tv again, for the record (Advance Wars. Finally cleared the tutorial lmao)

@nina_kali_nina Nokia did some really weird stuff!

@nina_kali_nina this is what i imagine phones look like in spy movies

@nina_kali_nina Not quite unhinged but I kinda want to get my hands on one of these: https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/17/24200617/essential-phone-project-gem-ph-2-prototype-hands-on-video

@nina_kali_nina you just unlocked a core memory of this and similar phone designs. god technology designers were wilding in the 2000s. i was too young for my parents to consider giving me a cell phone at the time not-smart-phones were dominant, and by the time i had a good reason to have one it ended up being long-term cheaper to buy me a base model smartphone and sternly tell me not to use data

@nina_kali_nina

I still remember how excited we were in school when one kid got the N-gage

@nina_kali_nina

I have never seen one of those, as a product or an advert. Really curious about the usability of that. Looks (to my 2026 eye) like a vape

@nina_kali_nina I remember this! Wish this were the future we went with, instead of the one we have now.

@nina_kali_nina see also: Masamune Shirow's designs for a computer mouse.

@nina_kali_nina OMG... I love it. It's like a spy tool that Bond or Flint would have carried in 1967.

@nina_kali_nina my favourite weird/unhinged phones where the Xelibri "fashion" range that Siemens did, particularly the "necklace dongle" X8 model which had a minimal keypad and was pitched at being primarily voice controlled (IIRC the voice recognition on them was pretty poor).

@nina_kali_nina The problem is that the fucking carriers won't accept them, they won't let us buy them anywhere and even if we do buy them, most carriers won't accept any phones they don't sell.

@nina_kali_nina Ohh I saw that one in person. It’s like a lipstick theme thing with a scroll wheel.

Gawd I miss those days.

https://www.mobilephonemuseum.com/phone-detail/nokia-7280

@nina_kali_nina indeed, no hinge in sight.

@nina_kali_nina it looks like The Doctor has added too many features to his new sonic screwdriver

@nina_kali_nina

It looks like a light saber.

@nina_kali_nina is this because foldable phones are "hinged" 🫠

@nina_kali_nina I still think that old Nokia phones are collectibles regardless of condition 🥰

@nina_kali_nina this is one of the moments where you wonder "OK, how dumb can this get?"

@nina_kali_nina it has to connect to grindr, how else would it grind? /j

@nina_kali_nina Wow you do stuff I have not even thought of, I'm a married very boring guy, my wife puts up with me and my very flat line emotions, maybe from ptsd, but anyway, I'll bet your place is like an electronics shop, interesting comments and projects you work on

@nina_kali_nina I just caught your first comment "When I was young", lol only at this point could I say that, I was young in 1963 the year Kennedy was assassinated, watched it on a B/W TV in class

@nina_kali_nina I'm tired boss 😞

@nina_kali_nina

Exactly as in "Unauthorized Bread".

https://www.goodreads.com/es/book/show/41940386

@nina_kali_nina please don't tell me there's a subscription for the coffee grinder software 🥲

@nina_kali_nina adding a computer always makes a thing worse.

@nina_kali_nina probably using unauthorized coffee beans.

@nina_kali_nina this is the only kind of coffee maker one would be allowed to post from:

https://oldbytes.space/@flexion/117291515523005473

My own machine is an Europiccola, with not a piece of Silicon in sight. The accompanied Kinu grinder doesn't even need any electricity at all. Pure bliss 😇 ☕

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..counting the seconds until I have to explain to some random weirdo on the interwebs, that the Espressigo was a legitimate product sold by SGI in Germany ☕

Alt...

ikea shelf struggling to keep up with an SGI Octane, Espressigo and Indigo

@0xabad1dea
Similar dream about different people. Yes, plural.

@0xabad1dea

Do waking dreams count?

@0xabad1dea glad not to encounter this kind of guy even in dreams. Gonna try to come up with a good riff on “get outta my dreams and into my car” but for getting in the sea and staying there

@eniko
There needs to be a "regular" version of Bismuth, and a fancier, more full-featured version called "Big Bismuth".

@etherdiver It's just a great all-around journey, won't forget the first time hearing it diving with friends on our Y2K trip to Hawaii.

@SwiftOnSecurity Yes, the admins decide on that.

@SwiftOnSecurity I think it’s at least partly based on a lottery system.

@SwiftOnSecurity Common misconception. It’s actually that each polycule has its own mastodon server.

@SwiftOnSecurity yes, and it's Catsalad.

@SwiftOnSecurity
If so, I've got a few complaints for @jerry 😅

@SwiftOnSecurity Naw, mine has several.

@SwiftOnSecurity not yet.

@nina_kali_nina same thing in German

@nina_kali_nina they're called rational numbers because there's only a countable number of them, and so you have to ration them, lest you run out

@nina_kali_nina huh, i never put that together before, i always thought of them as rational as intellectual nd never questioned it lmaooo 🫪

@nina_kali_nina English as first language and *still* think of it more like "the sober numbers" —

which (til, while posting this) according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_number#Etymology isn't so far off. Apparently in English "ratio" comes **from** "rational" and not the other way around!! (Interesting that that's more apparent in other languages.)

@nina_kali_nina I feel like that English meaning has to be a retcon because German, too, has that Russian meaning.

@nina_kali_nina 🤯

@foone i heard you like linux

@foone When you started with "portable container just failed", I was assuming you meant like your lunch leaked out of your tupperware/pyrex or something until I got to the second paragraph.

@0xabad1dea "has become widespread" amazing

(the paper is useless, it's basically a high schooler's two-page report on the general idea of procedural music, but published with a DOI as if it's a real scientific paper making a new discovery in 2021 that it's possible to put random chords in a midi file)

@0xabad1dea "instrumental." ok, fair play.

@csilverman Sad one, but also a good hint for those who believe everythings fine with nature/climate.

@simontatham Ah, a protestant source control system 😅

@simontatham

GitLab's Prayer?

@simontatham *slow clap* LOVE IT.

@simontatham
Don't threaten me with a Good Religion

@simontatham Forgive me father, for I have sinned. I have coupled multiple submodules with multiple projects. I'm pretty sure the projects don't know they are sharing submodules - at least they are all sharing slightly different commits.