Notices by niche witch with a 🐝 (clairely_undaunted@mastodon.triggerphra.se), page 2

@foone how are you not broadcasting the “never gonna give you up" video

@foone obvious suggestion: anamorphic *ducks*

@foone the supplemental power requirements and which connector you need has changed over time. which would have been a PCI-e spec change each time? Not that they haven’t had that many changes too though. frankly at this point you can easily have a gfx card that uses more power than the motherboard, might as well move the power connectors to the graphics card and power the motherboard from the port

@foone absofuckinglutely though tbh it’s just a different type of programming

@foone i just know how the sausage was/is made, i look forward to blissful ignorance someday

@foone it’s hillarious that nearly all the things you find astounding in this process make sense to me

@foone i guess after a while one has “seen it all”

weekend away from the usual

@smallsees @foone it's hard to see but there is an 8” floppy on the picture of the 5.25" label engraved in the 3.5" floppy, it's floppies all the way down

are you really in the tech capital of the world if your domme doesn’t have floppy disc earrings labeled “BAD DATA?”

@foone @ClarusPlusPlus co2 loving aliens looking for resource planets

@foone @ClarusPlusPlus i mean we are nowhere near as attactive as Venus… hey aliens go one more over

@foone @ClarusPlusPlus but, free shipping!

@foone @ClarusPlusPlus now writing James Bond spec script on evil shipping genius seeding Earth's oceans with petrol-creating algae

@foone seems like scan codes up above 0x90..DF would be usable. 0x9x - up to four button states, sent when changed. 0xAx - X value relative motion high 4 bits signed. 0xBx - Y value relative motion high 4 bits signed. 0xCx - Low bits for prior code. OxDx 4 Scroll bits (they didn’t have scroll then but why not)

@foone but looking into it this probably wouldn't make it past the KB Controller in PC/AT and later which is trying to do scan code translation and would probably reject stuff it doesn't know; so it would only kind of work on the original PC.

@foone looking back on it I am surprised there wasn’t a PC mouse that reused the keyboard interface with a passthrough plug. would be fun to try making that happen now.

faeries at folsom 🧚

@foone even the flux is trans

might live to see spacex go full sovereign citizen