Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • 🔤SpellBinding — CEINOVU Wordo: RAYON

  • Blog Questions Challenge: Technology Edition

    Alright fab. I see your tagging of everyone[0] for this question challenge, and I need a break from both planning things, and writing a bit of a reply to Anna about the previous phlog post I made.

    ~*~* When did you first get interested in technology? *~*~

    My parents bought an IBM clone PC when I was 5yo. Not only did I bypass the child lockout menu while the man setting up the computer was still there, I also repaired that thing after figuring out how it worked with the user manual. It was enough to get my parents to buy me my own IBM compatible, a Packard Bell Legend VIII running MS-DOS and Windows 3.1, as well as for my uncle to surprise me with a massive custom-built desk that he and a friend made for my birthday one year.

    Even though I poked around at that PC my parents had, it was when I got my own PC that I truly got interested in tech.

• Politics and World Events

  • Pope Francis - Rest in Peace

    Pope Francis died at 7:35am Rome time. May he rest in peace. Please pray for his soul, and for the next pope to be a good and holy pope.

• Technology and Free Software

  • When did you first get interested in technology?

    I think the key thing was working on building Cybot from the Real Robots magazine with my dad as a kid. It was a cute little blue bug-shaped robot.

    With each issue of the magazine you'd get parts for the robot - bits to build a gearbox, or a PCB (can't remember if you had to populate them yourself). My dad used these kits to teach me about assembly and disassembly, electronics, soldering and all kinds of other things. And of course it was great bonding time together!

  • Crystal Simulation

    Someone asked how long mining crystals last in EVE Online, and one answer was "a few hours", probably based on practice. The crystals degrade over time and eventually break, which might be what the "Volatility" and "Volatility Damage" are about, 10% and 0.050 damage, against a base of 1 HP.

  • Tesla is not your bro, bro

    I'm writing a piece about Cybertruck recalls for a client this morning, and I cannot help but laugh - in that Ralph Wiggum meme way - at all the Tesla bros who assume that because they are Tesla's bro, Tesla is also their bro.

    Nah, bruh. Tesla ain't your bro.

    I'm not talking about the nine active NHTSA recalls for Cybertrucks right now, although those definitely exist and some of them are downright scary: