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  Mounting /boot and having it automatically convert to ext3 because modern Linux liveCD Thereby causing fuckin weird file corruption issues with Lilo loading the kernel Fuuuuckin love it

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  I got the cheapest, nastiest ATX PC case I could to house that Tyan board I set up 2003 Gentoo on the other week I'm reaaaally tempted to fill it with some Noctua fans because damn it do look really nice with the glass side panel (Reposting because the image didn't attach for some reason?)

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  I made the terrible mistake of installing Windows NT 4 on a livestream. Come watch! https://youtube.com/live/bGQ3Uu04XNU

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  Philomena: Some people have been writing PHP for over 20 years. Is that because it's particularly difficult to finish? Expert: No, software is constantly evolving. Philomena: So they've been writing the same website for 20 years? Expert: No, different projects. Philomena: Have they tried finishing one before starting another? Expert: That's not how software development works. Philomena: My mate Paul spent 20 years building a shed. Turned out he was just an alcoholic. Expert: R...

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  Apparently 8-Bit guy's "movie" (the AI 50 minute slop thing) hit Youtube This is my favourite comment so far about it

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  So, I've got this Tyan S2466 board I found eons ago at Re-PC It has DUAL AMD Athlon MP 2400+ CPU's 2 gigs of DDR266 ECC And a 16 meg AGP Matrox Millennium GPU Would anyone be interested if I were to Livestream installing Gentoo from 2003 on it? Not modern Gentoo. 2003 Gentoo. Like a time capsule

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  This is where I post from btw

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  Got a final 10 day notice from the landlord as a "gentle reminder" that if we're still here after the 12th they'll start eviction proceedings Tried telling her that we've been applying to move somewhere since AUGUST. Got the expected "well that sucks. Hope you can figure that out" reply I'm so tired

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  Oops sorry I've been quiet I've been super sick since Monday the 28th In the few hours I've had awake each day though I've been working on building a "90's internet TV station" for my next big video project By which I mean I've now taught Windows 3.11 to accept *real-time video streaming* over a network. Like Twitch or YouTube

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  On October 4th, 1999. The domain gentoo.org was registered by Daniel Robbins Happy birthday, #Gentoo

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  If Valve really wants Deadlock to succeed they should've had the rat king voiced by Danny DeVito And have grandma voiced by Fran Drescher

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  Dave "serial liar" Plummer is making the rounds again. Bragging about working on Windows XP's serial keys And yet in his post, name-drops windows XP releasing in...1995? Was the "I have autism and therefore my memory is perfect this is how autism works buy my book that explains autism" guy... INCORRECT?

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  I wanna make a genre of youtube videos called "spite thumbnails" Where I just (badly) re-make a fucking AI slop thumbnail in Photoshop in literal minutes to show just how breathlessly lazy these fuckers actually are

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  So for some reason, cursedsilicon.net likes to randomly fall over dead As far as I can tell this is just due to the nginx log filling. Entirely due to being a wiki and thus fucking mana from heaven for AI slop bots But unlike TCRF I do not have the time, resources or (especially) energy to stick it behind Anubis or something So, instead

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  I wish Dick's had an app so I could order ahead I know their entire model is based on the speedee system. But I want to blearily stumble out of the darkness, pick up a bag of burgers and scamper back into the night Y'know because I'm a raccoon. And I hate waiting in line

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  Getting a phone call from my Mom: Mom: Yeah Cindee's (her BFF) project is taking off. She wants you to meet the programmer guy so you can get hired. He said you sound perfect Me: oh, good! Mom: Now. Before you meet him. Do you know what...furries are? Me: Wh- Mom: and what poly-armory?...(Yelling) Cindee, how is it pronounced? Me: ...Polyamory? Mom: Yeah! He's apparently both of those. The furry thing is a sex thing and the poly thing is he's got a girlfriend but she's a...

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  I'm glad this conversation wasn't in person because I was basically making this reaction for a solid couple minutes

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  Me when I go to Jersey Mike's

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  @emily Boop. CGHMN signup approved! Also since it's on your contact page, there's also the retro Discord if you'd like! https://discord.gg/TnpSG2P677

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  Why does eBay have a livestreaming feature? Like. I'm not even surprised it's all slop thumbnails But why does EBAY need livestreaming???

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  Come to the Cursed Silicon Discord server Where I ask the HARD hitting questions

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  #mutualaid #mutualaidrequest #fedihelp Doing one final push to hit the goal before August 1st. I'm a little nervous because GoFundMe seems to do "weekly" payouts. So I REALLY wanna get this finished before Friday to make sure I can pay them on the spot Monday. The whole "yeah if you're late again we'll just evict you" has had me in a low key panic since I got that email a couple weeks ago. Once I've rent paid I'm gonna call the WA governor office and...

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  Making the eternal mistake of checking out the orange site An article about Half-Life being ported by a fan to Mac OS 9 (1999) was posted Naturally all the fucking comments are "waaaaow I bet they used AI to do this" The absolute *dedication* that site has to the slop machine is truly a summation of the worst excesses of LLM's. It's a fishtank full of (usually) below average sand eaters crab bucketing each other about how great they are at being tech bros

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  #mutualaid #mutualaidrequest #fedihelp Another week. My unemployment is still being "adjudicated" (going on 12 days now) I'm extra fearful of being given an eviction notice in August. So I wanna get on top of rent *before* August 1st ;-; the more runway I can give myself the better Truly cannot understate how much I appreciate all the help folks have given, even just boosting! I promise I'll have more videos coming out soon. I'm juggling *several* retro projects all...

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  #mutualaidRequest #mutualaid #fedihelp #mutualaidboost I've got EIGHT DAYS LEFT to get rent for August. I know folks are sick of hearing me ask for help. But I'm teetering on that edge of oblivion >: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-shaun-keep-a-roof-over-his-head https://ko-fi.com/CursedSilicon The state are still spinning their wheels deciding if I should get unemployment or not. It's gotten to the point I've written to my congressional reps asking that they intervene as...

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  Not buying anything. But I felt compelled to at least make the pilgrimage #teardown2026

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  Hey, #netbsd folk. Forgive my ignorance on this topic. But I need to build a NetBSD port for a distribution that doesn't have one ready to go. Can NetBSD be built from source *on Linux* or does it need to be built from within a NetBSD environment itself? Just so I know if I need to spin up a NetBSD build VM first

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  Testing out a battery bank for my roommate and having a bit of a Hank Hill moment with it

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  Crying and shitting myself as I admit maybe the BSD folks had a point about "code quality" all along