mos_8502 :verified:

Retrocomputing Maker and Designer in Ontario, Canada. I make stuff without promising a delivery date. I don't do crowdfunding, but I do gratefully accept Patreon and Ko-Fi support for what I do. 

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2026-04-08 21:12:15 UTC

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Former houseguest took about two grand worth of my shit on his way out the door.

2026-04-08 21:09:47 UTC

I may have to sell some things. I don’t want to. But I’m flat fucking broke, my shit has been stolen, and I have a powerful need to eat sometime this month.

2025-03-10 01:23:53 UTC

Linux users only: How many monitors does your primary Linux machine have?

2024-09-16 21:36:33 UTC

“If you took a capybara, and taught it to walk upright like a man, made it wear dusty old black jeans and a ratty tee shirt, had it carry around a coffee cup and a chip on its shoulder, it wouldn’t look anything like him, but everyone who knew him would say it felt like him.”

2024-07-10 04:13:06 UTC

Nobody hates computers as much as someone who loves computers.

2024-06-22 21:01:12 UTC

Best terminal emulation standard and character set for a neo-retro computer:

2024-06-13 19:15:22 UTC

And now I know how Sentinel 65X can support optional HDMI output. I can modify the board layout to make this thing wire-free to install.
https://electron-shepherd.com/collections/all/products/electronanalog

2024-05-22 03:19:08 UTC

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So more like this, taking advantage of track-to-track teardrops to get the transition between widths?
https://studio8502.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/482/577/832/824/272/original/d10c3824934e7103.png

2024-05-15 00:12:14 UTC

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Bye, cuntface.

2024-05-14 23:45:12 UTC

I will say it again. The left abandoning the language of morality to the right is *why* we have right-wing religious zealots claiming the moral high ground -- the moralized perspective, even twisted as theirs is, is more attractive to an average human than a logical one, even when the moralized one is demonstrably false, misleading, and dangerous.
We do not support LGTBQA+ rights because it is politically useful, or because it's fair, or because it's just. We do it because it is *morally correct* to do so.
We do not support UBI for logical or practical reasons, even though those are essentially correct, we do it because it is *morally correct* for all people to enjoy a dignified minimum standard of living.
It is also useful, if it matters to you, that framing these practical policies in moral terms frees you to paint your opponents as immoral by definition -- and that, too, appeals to the human psyche.

2024-05-11 05:11:14 UTC

I need to try this one. Dune3D is a 3D modeling program that looks neat.
https://github.com/dune3d/dune3d
https://studio8502.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/112/420/728/821/807/610/original/2d734f05367901c0.png

2024-05-01 02:05:46 UTC

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Yeah. I moved to FreeBSD a while ago everywhere but my main MacBook Pro and my retro systems.

2024-05-01 02:02:56 UTC

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Neat.
See, I have this thing where I have no *particular* love for Xorg specifically, I just have no desire to throw away the entire X protocol. Wayland is a fine go-between for the programs and hardware, but I just don't like combining the window manager with the display server and the hardware all in one, it's anti-Unix.

2024-05-01 01:28:31 UTC

Help me out: Let's say I wanted to build a desktop that used *only* X11 applications, but still used Wayland to actually talk to the hardware -- a full XWayland setup. I know how to do that, but what I don't know is which compositor is most suited to that use case -- the XWayland server running in a rootful mode, filling the whole screen, with no other Wayland clients running.
So which compositor fits that model best?