Les Orchard <me@lmorchard.com>

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@lmorchard@masto.hackers.town

  • 11 hours ago
    It was nice and sunny in California but my moleman eyes are glad to be back in cloudy Oregon #pdx #pdxtst
  • 16 hours ago
    Since rides and cabs have been long waits all week, i thought i'd be smart and order one before I got down to the lobby from my hotel room. Turns out they were RIGHT THERE ALREADY and I managed to get to the car with 20 seconds to spare
  • 19 hours ago
    Dreamed that my boss is mad at me. He's not, as far as I can tell, and especially not for the reason that only made sense in the dream. But I still feel like I'm in trouble
  • 1 day ago
    Oooh, green vinyl of Tre Lux's (Switchblade Symphony) all-covers album "A Strange Gathering" - super good https://switchbladesymphony.bandcamp.com/album/a-strange-gathering
  • 1 day ago
    Like I don't want to talk to anyone, just FOOMP CSHHHH burrito
  • 1 day ago
    That thing where I'm toward the end of a trip and I kind of wish I could pay someone to fire a burrito through my hotel room window
  • 4 days ago
    I'm on a work trip and my hotel room has windows that open to the actual outside???
  • 6 days ago
    I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS
  • 6 days ago
    in other words, I totally thought I was going nuts but no FS-UAE was gaslighting me
  • 6 days ago
    Today I learned: the Amiga emulator FS-UAE by default uses copy-on-write for floppy images. And you can only disable that with a writable_floppy_images=1 config option mentioned nowhere in the launcher. So if you're trying to prepare an ADF floppy image for an Amiga with a Gotek floppy emulator, and the disk keeps looking empty, it's because there's a copy-on-write overlay on the PC running the emulator and the ADF file never gets updated.
  • 1 week ago
    And that's just one of the smallest SD cards I have on hand. I'd melt my teen brain if I went back in time and showed him a storage device over 7800x times bigger than his 128mb hard drive yet small enough that I accidentally dropped it between the floorboards (which is a thing i did)
  • 1 week ago
    Turns out Amigas don't like big hard drives. And by big I mean 125x bigger than the 128mb hard drive I bought with my allowance, back in the day

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