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King Naga Calyo @dragonarchitect.rubber.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

God, I just wanted to be able to decompress and play Factorio tonight after work.

Fuck you, Microsoft. 🖕

King Naga Calyo @dragonarchitect.rubber.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Welp. Had to update my Windows 10 EOL article AGAIN because Microsoft just had to go and do the predictably shitty thing to do on the last Patch Tuesday before Windows 10 EOL, and maliciously erode users' data sovereignty a whole lot more. =_=;

Also I added a section about ReactOS because I was […]

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King Naga Calyo @dragonarchitect.rubber.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

So, I'd always suspected that automatic start-stop causes unnecessary wear and tear to engines, especially to starter motors, but I did _not_ expect the _worst_ wear and tear to be the _bearings._ O.o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu8cJ2t_ja8

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King Naga Calyo @dragonarchitect.rubber.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

I take a very anarcho-libertarian stance on the subject of body autonomy and body modification.

No one should have the right to dictate, by any means social legal or economic, what you can and can not do with your own body. And by extension you have every right to do anything you want to your […]

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King Naga Calyo @dragonarchitect.rubber.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

It should be possible, affordable, and socially acceptable for anyone to take hrt for any reason even if that reason is "I'm just bored and want to see what it does to me" or "yolo"

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King Naga Calyo @dragonarchitect.rubber.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

I think having boobs would fix some men. Even if it doesn't crack an egg or few. More guys could benefit from having their own pair of tits for "close" friends and themselves to fondle and enjoy.

I'm totally not biased with all my tittyman masculine gender shapes. No, no, nosiree. :)

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King Naga Calyo @dragonarchitect.rubber.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Oh for fuck's sake... =_=

Microsoft doing this right on the verge of windows 10 EOL HAS to be deliberate

From: @alternativeto
https://mas.to/@alternativeto/115331428763840639

AlternativeTo (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update removes all remaining methods to bypass Microsoft Account requirements during setup, enforcing online sign-in and blocking any possibility of creating local-only accounts during installation https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/10/windows-11-now-blocks-all-microsoft-account-bypasses-during-setup/

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King Naga Calyo @dragonarchitect.rubber.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

[Factorio]

It's occurred to me that since I've fully developed two blueprints for early-mid Nauvis (red, green, blue, black science and associated technologies), and the blue-black science one includes some simple low-volume bot production, I don't have to spend a lot of time and brainpower to […]

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King Naga Calyo @dragonarchitect.rubber.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Imagine being able to finally, properly utilize Audacity in combination with KDenLive and Blender for a fully and completely FOSS video production pipeline.

We are now incredibly close to that reality.

The full release of Audacity 4.0 is dropping sometime in 2026.

The finished alpha build is […]

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King Naga Calyo @dragonarchitect.rubber.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Last night I watched Tantacrul's latest video about how his company (Muse Group) is glowing up Audacity as a bit of refreshingly transparent PR to head off ignorant youtube criticism of a late pre-alpha build of 4.0.

Holy shit Audacity 3.7 is a non-destructive editor now after a complete engine […]

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King Naga Calyo @dragonarchitect.rubber.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

@volpeon I'll be honest, my ADHD memory is so shit that I can't remember my own bash history well enough to remember if a command I need to use is but a few more up arrows away, so it's often faster and more reliable for me to just... re-type the command or edit a close match, if its previous […]

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King Naga Calyo @dragonarchitect.rubber.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

@volpeon I'm not sure I understand the context of this

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King Naga Calyo @dragonarchitect.rubber.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

You can also derive these values by rounding the cube root of 10 (2.15) and the cube root squared of 10 (4.64) to the nearest integers.

That technique of taking the n-th root of an interval and then raising it to powers less than n is how you build a set of preferred numbers over the interval […]

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King Naga Calyo @dragonarchitect.rubber.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

For some additional context: the 2-5-10 series of preferred numbers is neat because it roughly equally divides the decade logarithmically into thirds using integer values. Log10(2) ≈ 0.30 which is very close to 0.3333... and log10(5) ≈ 0.70 which is very close to 0.6666...

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King Naga Calyo @dragonarchitect.rubber.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

I was today years old when I realized that the marking resolution on my slide rule follows the 2-5-10 series of preferred numbers

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King Naga Calyo @dragonarchitect.rubber.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

@gothpanda.dev Yus!

King Naga Calyo @dragonarchitect.rubber.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

@volpeon 'bout time. Took long enough.

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King Naga Calyo @dragonarchitect.rubber.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

I was today years old when I realized that the marking resolution on my slide rule follows the 2-5-10 series of preferred numbers

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King Naga Calyo @dragonarchitect.rubber.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

@pax.dog That sounds like an LLM wrote the title.

Probably did.

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King Naga Calyo @dragonarchitect.rubber.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

@volpeon Oh I am liking this idea... 👀👀👀👀

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t3rminus @t3rminus.calamity.world · 6d

Modern computing is dead.

Microsoft killed it by filing it with ads and tracking. Apple killed it by forgetting why their products were desirable. Google killed it by locking down the open platform.

I’m just so depressed with my entire industry. These tools used to be limitless, fun, and clear […]

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King Naga Calyo @dragonarchitect.rubber.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

[mh--]

I feel completely out of my depth when considering putting any feelers out for jobs here on Fedi.

So many of the feelers I see are from people who have many years of experience.

I'm a n00b by comparison.

Someone who needs to be brought up as an apprentice by someone else more […]

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King Naga Calyo @dragonarchitect.rubber.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

I've made a few more updates to my Windows 10 EOL article since publishing!

Tonight's round of updates includes:

1. A link to a handy PowerShell script called Win11Debloat: https://codeberg.org/dragon-architect/windows-10-eol#de-bloating-windows-11

2. Some rearranging in the Linux evangelism […]

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King Naga Calyo @dragonarchitect.rubber.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

I've made a few more updates to my Windows 10 EOL article since publishing!

Tonight's round of updates includes:

1. A link to a handy PowerShell script called Win11Debloat: https://codeberg.org/dragon-architect/windows-10-eol#de-bloating-windows-11

2. Some rearranging in the Linux evangelism […]

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King Naga Calyo @dragonarchitect.rubber.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Man, I went through the entirety of snektember without getting even one new art of King Naga Calyo...

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