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alyx

@alyx.sh

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🏳️‍⚧️ she/her photography and weird tech projects website: alyx.sh mastodon: frogs.lgbt/@alyx twitter: twitter.com/npc_alyx seattle

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alyx @alyx.sh · 1d

kiki and labouba

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alyx @alyx.sh · 3d

chomp

an orange/red protogen/synth creature observes an OLPC laptop with what appears to be a look of amazement, with a woman in the background pointing something out on it

an orange/red protogen/synth creature inspects an OLPC laptop with what appears to be a look of amazement, with a woman in the background looking at it

there's a cord connecting the OLPC to the synth

a woman in a black dress with flowers is holding an OLPC laptop, which is being bitten by an orange/red protogen/synth creature that says BUG on the back of its head

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alyx @alyx.sh · 3d

chomp

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alyx @alyx.sh · 9d

with how EA Games conducts themselves you'd have thought that EA was already owned by private equity

alyx @alyx.sh · 9d

needs new shocks and some other things first, but yeah!
I should take it up and go camping in the mountains with it sometime

alyx @alyx.sh · 9d

it's peak shitty truck that still runs and miraculously doesn't have mechanical issues

paint's all fucked, though

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alyx @alyx.sh · 9d

no rust! it's in great shape

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alyx @alyx.sh · 9d

we've got 1997 Chevy Silverado and 1999 Oldsmobile Cutlass up as candidates

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alyx @alyx.sh · 9d

help i accidentally another shitbox

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alyx @alyx.sh · 9d

do you ever go to get one crappy car and end up with two crappy cars

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alyx @alyx.sh · 22d

it's such a bizarre concept! I intentionally posted it to trip people up because unless you know what you're looking at, it just looks like a normal SAS drive. Hell, even the folks selling them on eBay have them listed as SATA.

alyx @alyx.sh · 22d

seemingly no one ever did!

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alyx @alyx.sh · 22d

here's your consolation cat

dilute calico cat curled up tightly on a blue blanket

alyx @alyx.sh · 22d

unfortunately, no. it's a seagate kinetic drive, which is ethernet pinned onto a sas connector!

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alyx @alyx.sh · 22d

unfortunately, you're only half correct. it's a Seagate Kinetic drive, which is ethernet pinned onto a SAS connector

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alyx @alyx.sh · 22d

smells more like TCP/IP, to me

alyx @alyx.sh · 22d

seagate kinetic! it's ethernet pinned onto a sas connector!

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alyx @alyx.sh · 22d

the sun workstation is unrelated to the hard drive, do not fear

alyx @alyx.sh · 22d

i will send one cat picture to the first person who I haven't already told and can *correctly* tell me how to connect this hard drive

a hard drive with a SAS connector... or is it?

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alyx @alyx.sh · 26d

emma

calico cat with big dialated eyes over a person with black hair's shoulder looking off into the distance

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · Aug 28

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

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alyx @alyx.sh · Aug 16

i've literally just built a computer specifically to play Battlefield 1942 under Vista on mid 00s hardware because I can't reliably run it on modern systems :(

alyx @alyx.sh · Jul 22

i am a heron. i haev a long neck and i pick fish out of the water w/ my beak. if you dont repost this comment in 10 other chats i will fly into your data center tonight and make a mess of your parts room and DWDM transit shelves

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alyx @alyx.sh · Jul 19

YOU WON'T GET ME THIS TIME EA NASIR

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alyx @alyx.sh · Jul 18

boat!