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bitprophet, 1 day ago to random

ME: “lol, who the heck goes out and drives all over the middle of the continent just to look at (severe) weather???”

ALSO ME: drove round-trip equivalent to 1/3 of the way across the continent, just to look at weather* the other month

• ok, astronomical event, but still

bitprophet, 1 day ago

@ghickman no that's the aurora I keep managing to miss lately

bitprophet, 1 hour ago

@tpherndon alas

bitprophet, 11 hours ago to random

Finally done with precautionary post-#PyConUS isolation. Tested negative✌🏻

bitprophet, 11 hours ago

Could /probably/ have gotten away with only, idk, 3 days of this instead of 5? since I think current variants have shorter incubation times.

but by day 3.5 of "yup I just live in my home office/den now” it feels dumb to cut corners instead of riding it out another couple days 🤷🏻‍♂️ Especially since we're gonna go see my brand new niece today.

(He says, as if her parents were probably not exposing her to higher COVID risk on the daily 😩)

bitprophet, 9 hours ago

@mpirnat @offby1 finally, proof that you are truly NOT the same person as @tylerdave ! (Get well soon Dave!)

bitprophet, 9 hours ago

@ghickman yeaaaaaaa

cadey, 23 hours ago to random

bitprophet, 23 hours ago

@cadey thanks, I hate it

mhoye, 1 day ago to random

I do love this city in the summer tho

bitprophet, 1 day ago

@mhoye error: skyline distinctiveness insufficient to overcome whatever potato compression mastodon put on this image 😂

bitprophet, 1 day ago

@mhoye I was about to say “maybe check with your admins to see if there's a workaround" but oh right you're on the Big One.

Anyway, I don't remember where you are and I'm too scared to guess lest I get it embarrassingly wrong 🫠

bitprophet, 1 day ago

@cks @mhoye oh, that certainly looks like a match dunnit. nice!

bitprophet, 1 day ago

@mhoye no shade! just shows how used I am to people being on small, bespoke hipster instances 🤣

bitprophet, 23 hours ago

@cks @mhoye nice! thank you 🙏🏻

Also, yea - at a reasonable resolution, I /can/ make out what I assume is CN Tower hiding in the background.

bitprophet, 1 day ago to random

boy I /wish/ they would “Recall" Windows 11!!!

...

for serious tho it's enough to make a body start reconsidering the PC Gamer life.

OTOH, I'm not sure I’d expect any better privacy-respectin' from uhhh…the same fucking company…or Sony.

(I already have a Switch, obv, so I guess that would be indie games sorted, albeit leaving a AAA-sized hole in my life.)

(Oh right, or: Steam Deck, or its handrolled analogue, “Linux on the Desktop: no we SWEAR this time”)

bitprophet, 1 day ago

@onelson yea, I was going to say something like "but in the future who knows what Sony would expose me to”, but realized this applies to literally everything - including Nintendo, Apple, Valve even.

I guess maybe not one of those totally open source hardware phones or laptops, you know, the ones that uniformly suck ass.

the future stiiiiinks

bitprophet, 1 day ago

@joshourisman @onelson same!

bitprophet, 1 day ago

@joshourisman @onelson honestly, these days, i(Pad)OS 🤣 but otherwise, macOS?

The Windows is only in here for the games, and the Linux only for the hacking.

joshmillard, 1 day ago to random

most metal shit I’ve ever seen on an informational park placard

bitprophet, 1 day ago

@joshmillard oh yea wasn't that in like, Evangelion or something