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Cory "lives in the mountains" W

@coryw.bsky.social

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gay, minidisc, computers, old computers, chronic illness, trains, tech support in higher ed, southwest. (he/him)

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Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · Oct 6

here's the whole thing, dunno if the account or post is still up on Twitter to get a better screenshot, alas

screenshot from twitter account wolf pupy "i hit the hay all day mother fucker. 24 hour sleep cycle. if you awake you a fake. it's bed time bitch"
dated 2013-10-20 11:34 AM

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 10h

What started as a joke actually turned out pretty well. Keeping this in the back pocket for a future leasing company scheme.

An illustration of an EMD SD45 by Interurban era, inspired by SBB's "cargo" scheme.

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phoebe-jeebies @funkjunkins.bsky.social · 2h

consider the following

stop ahead sign but instead of a stop sign it's another stop ahead sign

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Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · 2h

I wonder what percentage of the first fifty thousand users have crashed out (and I say this acknowledging I'm in that group lolol)

Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · 2h

it's genuinely so wild how under a couple hundred thousand people felt so much like there were only fifty people here because roughly that many made up the core of almost every major event

you'd be posting about breakfast and then "DID YOU HEAR WHAT X-AND-SUCH-GUY DID???" and unfortunately: yes

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Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · 3h

was I supposed to just find out on my own that a new Step Rockets single dropped all the way back in August?

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Caliente @sexiocaliente.bsky.social · 1d

I can always count on the gays to thirst follow anyone even if they’re a MAGAT

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Jono with the good mo @jono.gay · 11h

We used to live in a proper society

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Vacation at Luigi's mansion 👻 @darumaaku.bsky.social · 5d

💋✨ Richard Rider (He/They) Vibes (Yee/Haw) ✨💋 ( @casperoliver.bsky.social as @richardrider-king.bsky.social ) #CasperOliver #DragKing #TransPride #LGBTQIA #CountryQueer #cowboy #illustration

Casper Oliver, also known as the dashingly handsome drag king, Richard Rider. (He/They)

I went really hard with this one because firstly, HELL YEAH to Richard Rider, and secondly, cowboys. I will never miss any opportunity to draw a cowboy. Sorry for all the spam, Casper. I draw really fucking fast and like I said a few months ago, I think you're gonna, OR have learned that quickly lol. Please DM me so that we can work out a way for me to send you these HD version pieces, I'm hootin' and hollerin'.

Y'all, go and check out Casper Oliver/Richard Rider's queer positive content. Say hi if you're in the Oregon area too.

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Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · 23h

it's a few days of driving but the van has a very cozy bed in the back we can share to stay warm on the way back up the mountain

(hmm I suppose we could just take the van into the woods)

Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · 23h

not only are you invited I'll come pick you up if you want! :P

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Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · 23h

i live in the woods sortof! :P

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Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · 23h

sorry I'm the worst at both chat and replying!

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Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · 23h

what if I would like your intentions to be very very impure? :P

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Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · 1d

absolute worst part about this is that it's almost certainly the actual root cause is because the shirts are just being sold everywhere as cheap merch for people who want to pretend they're not full maga (and/or don't believe anything)

feral streep @seanpaulmahoney.bsky.social · 1d

surely these cannot be the children who are our future that Whitney Houston was singing about

Newsweek article headline:
Gen Z is Falling in Love With George Bush

Why Gen Z conservatives love the 'Reagan Bush '84' tee
They weren't alive in the '80s, but to them, "Reagan is still a vibe.
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Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · 1d

After getting my T400 I also got an X24 and used it for purely writing for a hot moment, I think that ran XP+2007 basically fine.

I have an X31 around here somewhere that, against all good judgement, I put 7+2010 on and that actually ran fine enough

Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · 1d

oh yeah, there's a band of a decade or so where thinkpad keyboards were Really Really Good

the 760s were pretty okay, I found them comparable to like some same-era Mac/Dell/Toshiba keyboards then most of those fell off and like 2001-2011 thinkpad keyboards were among the best you could get

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Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · 1d

(On the Mac side, Office 98 is "pretty bad" on most low-end, 601/603 hardware, and won't run at all on 68k, but gets better as you get to and cross over like 100MHz, so I could see the same being true on the Windows side)

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Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · 1d

Hmm, now I'm trying to remember what the slowest Pentium I've used is

I had a couple 760 variants but I don't remember if I bothered with Office 97 on those. I had an optiplex w/ PMMX@200 and NT4+Office97 was prob p decent on it

I have an OmniBook 800CT but idk if it has a working Office install

Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yeah I imagine it would be pretty bad and Office 4.x would probably be significantly better, since that's more contemporary to 386es

(I dont' even know if 97 will officially run on 386es even though it will run on NT3.51 and that runs on 386es, but I do think 97 may officially run on some 486es)

Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · 1d

(so I was setting up a few machines to be servers and a few machines to be clients)

anyway now I want a swole 386 to run NT 3.51 on.

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Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · 1d

(in particular in the dream it was that this one specific version of HP-UX from like 1999 was alleged to be significantly more stable and functional than a version from like 2001-03 or whatever, for like again, wild dream phrasing, 64 different services)

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Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · 1d

as a child I had this 386 that I realized only when I was finally getting rid of it was a 40MHz one on a board that probably would've supported like 16-32mb of ram in the most perfectly generic AT minitower case and in retrospect it's like peak 1992 generic budget wintel

Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · 1d

had an insane dream last night where I was setting up a testing lab for old server and networking software (to test a claim that a specific version was more stable than it's successor) and now I'm wondering what's the minimum viable/reasonable hardware configuration for windows NT 3.51 and Office 97

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Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · 1d

imagine having "utility poles" be your crashing out moment

Cory "lives in the mountains" W @coryw.bsky.social · 1d

going to bed late but for a different reason from everybody else, it sounds like.