Ultimate Companion for Windows (US Dreams, Windows, 1994)

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Cover art to Ultimate Companion for Windows, featuring dramatic early CGI artwork of dragons in a mountain lake.

some people fill their bio up with loud proclamations of all the things they aren't and who isn't allowed to talk to them, and i wish there was more space so i could i add "samurai pizza cats reject" to mine

Excellent example for the list of answers as to why I try to keep my household linux-free:
"stores the user's birth date for age verification, as required by recent laws
in California (AB-1043), Colorado (SB26-051), Brazil (Lei 15.211/2025), etc."

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954

The brainrot is big in this one.
also… TIL: "systemd-userdbd" wtflol.
Kinda amazed how they manage to still find new nooks and crannies to metastasise into, in their haphazard nonchalant fashion.

extra-lol for this idiocy:

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poettering says: claude review

Yes, building hardware is hard, but if you get sakura pink PCBs, a bunch of sexually repressed old white guys will get really uncomfortable about their masculinity, and that's kinda worth it

Amiga people will make and sell a €399 sound card capable of 24-bit 192kHz audio, inexplicably called AmiGUS while having nothing to do with the Gravis Ultrasound / PicoGUS

Other Amiga people will buy it so they can listen to MP3s on their 35 year old computer

A redditor (Ok_Lingonberry3296) traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and lobbying records across 45 states to figure out who's behind the age verification bills.

The answer is Meta - a company that profits from your data writing laws that collect more of it.

Page: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings?tab=readme-ov-file

Page backup: https://archive.ph/2026.03.13-193015/https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings?tab=readme-ov-file

Reddit discussion: https://web.archive.org/web/20260313143853/https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_billion_in_nonprofit_grants_and_45/

#Meta #Facebook #AgeVerification #privacy #surveillance #dystopia #socialmedia #technology

i'm starting to feel like PC building is like masturbating

kinda feels weird to watch someone else do it, and i don't need anyone commenting on the amount of thermal paste i'm applying,

a really cool photo i took today x)

#photography

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photograph of two people hugging at the platform of a train station, with a passing blurry train behind them

although I am curious about the psychology of the openclaw trend, I could never see myself allowing a bot to publish a website about our interactions if I ever had one.

but if I did, the posts would be things like:

- my human told me today that I am as important as "this shitty screwdriver I bought at IKEA". bless her heart she must like me a lot 💘

- today I screwed up a basic programming task and my human complained that I used 3000kWh of power to deliver a total garbage result, she just keeps motivating me to try!!!!

actually probably not because I'm not really like that but this stuff squicks me the fuck out

oc by @tendstofortytwo

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usb-c cable with plug facing the viewer, with the following text overlaid: "device low on juice? can't find a compatible charger? try 30-40V on VBUS 30-40V on VBUS: a convenient way to power your devices dump it all immediately with no PD negotiation you will certainly not regret 30-40V on VBUS"

Top 10 Discord Alternatives (2026 - Updated List)

1. FAX
2. Bildschirmtext (BTX)
3. Minitel
4. Prestel
5. Videotext Chat
6. Q-Link
7. FidoNet
8. Usenet
9. Micronet 800
10. DATEX-J

we can all abandon discord! just use stoat chat. it's on revolt. we're on delta chat. group's on matrix. it's on signal. signal has it for you.

Now that's the look I was going for!

Still using the chiang model as a base but adding extra control with a medulla cortex split, both having extra diffuse layers and allowing full roughness control. On top also a diffuse layer with normal transfer and additional specular layers.
I might write up a more detailed explanation later once I get it all cleanly set up.

#b3d #blender #blender3d #3DArt #mastoArt #mastoArt #fennec #fox #anthro

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3D render of an anthropomorphic fennec fox with round purple glasses.

Welcome to Dumping your own DVD/Blu-ray discs for personal enjoyment!

We have:
-Playlist obfuscation
-"You are running low on disk space"
-Riplock
-Dolby Vision is a fuck
-Spending a significant amount of time on doom9 and MakeMKV forums
-Java? More likely than you think!
-UHD discs requiring certain drives that scalpers are essentially holding hostage
-Firmware fuckery (Libredrive)
-"Your MakeMKV BETA trial key has expired"
-Cinavia audio watermarking (lol)
-Broken on arrival data, requiring Fix-up tables (FUTs)
-An entire disc's worth of episodes in a single title
-Episodes out of order
-Oops, your AACS Host Certificate has been revoked in the latest media key block version
-Triple-layer UHD discs are a fuck
-Whatever the hell they did with the Fringe S01 Blu-ray release
-Cheap re-prints of TV seasons on single-layer DVD with even more compression!
-Purchasing a MakeMKV license key
-An apathetic industry that doesn't care whether your expensive UHD discs actually play properly or not

I'm buying a kitchen and they sent a sample of the marble counter top with a metal ball showing what the sink will be like. Now my desk looks like a 90s 3D rendering tool demo image.

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A square marble tile with a shiny metal ball on it next to some papers and a coffee mug.

Only the real 90s kids remember connecting their consoles with the piss, blood, and cum connectors

Two Amiga 1200s sensually laying on top of eachother

Is this yuri? >ω<

human interface guidelines peaked at apple macintosh os 8 platinum theme. look at these buttons just aching to be poked, but they don't just chocka down like a hard plastic keycap; they flip inverted like a translucent pop-its fidget toy

all of the advancement in graphics hardware since this point in the past should have been real time 3d models to produce the most authentic rendering of these buttons in today's high resolution displays or with the color reflections cast by other windows etc

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an illustration from Apple Mac OS 8 Human Interface Guidelines (1997-09-02). An example of a Cancel / OK dialog box is shown, with the user mid-click on the OK button. both rounded-rectangle buttons look like they are made of beveled plastic which squish down inverted when you touch them like a pop-its silicone fidget toy. the "default" button is lined with a little ridge to indicate that's the one that will be triggered if you just press return. both buttons have a solid black outline to make them visually distinct from the panel they're carved into, which also has a beveled edge.

The Zaza got me talking like Pingu

twitter users be like: "damn i opened twitter and it sucks"

my brother in christ,

fuck that lovense buttplug shit, when are they gonna invent a device that lets me tickle someone via an app

I don't need any jerk off instructions. I figured out how to do it years ago actually.

just one more USB port bro. i promise bro just one more port and we'll plug all the dongles bro. just one more port. please just one more bro. one more port and we can fit all the peripherals bro. bro c'mon just one more port. bro bro please just one more

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A green motherboard with 36 USB ports on the back, arranged in 8 groups of four each, plus two more under an Ethernet port and two more under a PS/2 one

sometimes people brag about their mint condition hardware, but consider the following

what if your computer had character?

Be pet, gay dogs! ​​

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photo of a window from the outside. there is a rainbow-coloured flag in the window and words on the left "Be" "Gay" below, then on the right "Pet" and "Dogs" below.

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The XKCD All Modern Tech Infrastructure stack but modified. AWS and Cloudflare hold up the left side of the stack with a medium sized platform. Unpaid Open Source Developers hold up the right side of the stack on a tiny pillar. DNS forms two tiny pillars on either side of the stack holding up the majority. Below them the Linux Foundation forms an entire platform holding up the entire stack. Below that is a tiny thin pillar as the basis of everything, it represents the undersea internet cables, it is being bitten by a shark. At about the middle of the stack a giant lever is being turned slowly pushing the entire tower over, it's labelled AI. Floating separate from the stack is a tiny blob labeled "Whatever Microsoft is doing".