ShawnT 🔧🐀

King of Fixing Things #RatVerified #ComputerToucher

Homepage: https://www.phaysis.com/
Hometown: [#Austin](https://mastodon.coffee/tags/Austin ), TX
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2025-08-11 15:09:37 UTC

If an LLM were to scrape your hard drive, what assumptions would it make of you?
I know, from the idiotic terrorist manifestos I grabbed from the internet before the federal cops told the hosting providers to take them down, it would have a completely incorrect idea of who I am. That's for sure.

2025-03-10 02:53:48 UTC

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Is there a blurb in the liner notes about using a custom program on an Apple II to control a pen plotter to draw the cover art? Because it's definitely in the liner notes of my CD copy. What a wild flex. Not enough that there's a Fairlight CMI touching every track, they gotta brag about graphics tech.

2025-02-19 03:54:57 UTC

Blustery cold weather?
Quarantini time!
#martini
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2025-01-26 05:49:14 UTC

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Did you have a cool DJ on-air name?

2024-10-31 05:45:09 UTC

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Main USB-HDD interface chip is "FC2279", which is a no-name USB-NAND interface controller. The NAND (or whatever) is potted, so no idea what it actually is.
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2024-10-31 01:57:37 UTC

Random-ass USB thumbdrives in the coffeeshop community offering plate. WTF? I'm taking one home for research.
#hacks #sketchy #caution
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2024-10-11 01:33:21 UTC

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Thassalotta knives, mister.

2024-10-10 02:36:26 UTC

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The whiskey (no matter the variety) really does help with the compliance of the metal against stone. Good effort!
What grit stones do you have? I have a kit with soaking stones of 400, 800, 1000, 3000 grit, and a stone for sanding down the others. Still can't get the 3000 to do anything impressive, so most stuff is just 800 then 1000 and I call it a day.

2024-10-08 06:02:28 UTC

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Oooohhh Mike, you keep bringin' it, and I'm glad for it. This reply is [checks notes] chef's kiss.

2024-10-08 05:05:55 UTC

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#Monday night activities, as foretold in the prophecy:
#blades #sharpening #knives #whiskey #chores
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2024-10-06 04:47:52 UTC

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NO WAY. Dude. Did this happen?

2024-09-07 06:20:12 UTC

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These are GREAT pictures!

2024-09-02 23:22:04 UTC

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They took away our home buttons, our aux jacks, and our HREFs and sold them all back to us.

2024-08-26 16:08:11 UTC

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I suspect it's the chemistry (and that it's more profitable to make them fade faster). If I use modern markers on the board I've had since college, it just doesn't want to erase cleanly, so either there's a resistive layer on the board that has worn off, or the chemistries are incompatible.

2024-08-13 17:25:31 UTC

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What if - stay with me - what if the carrot IS the stick?

2024-08-12 16:59:30 UTC

For every carrot, there's a stick.
#humanresources