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Val Packett 🧉
@val.packett.cool
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Purple is my natural hair color. I have strong opinions about software and sometime I even get to make them reality. Same for the state of the world in […]

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new art unlocked
Laptop screen, mostly black, litle white squares in a repeating random ish pattern in a few blocks towards the bottom right corner, some part of a terminal emulator visible on the very corner. But the dirty lens produced biiig vertical smears on all the white squares in the photo
September 15, 2026 at 7:36 AM
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Huh, these days LineageOS does not complain at all about not having reset userdata and just picks everything up from a stock ROM… to very cursed results
Notification shade with: MotoApps, now We personalized your device with a few selected apps Android System, now Discover Trust Get to know how to assure your device is safe Moto App Manager, now Setup complete Your device setup is complete. See what applications were installed. <More Info> Security & privacy, now Identity Check works with more apps Identity Check prevents unwanted access to your apps. Now available with any app that u... <View details> App menu with "All Docum…", "Amaze GO!", "Ball Sort P…", "Block Blast!", "Bubble Sh…", "Candy Cru…", "ChatGPT", "Temu", "Tile Explorer", "Vita Mahjo…", and stock basic apps from LineageOS including very characteristic ones like AudioFX
September 14, 2026 at 1:37 AM
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lol portuguese UI just abbreviates sexta-feira as "sex"?? that's… fun i guess :D
"sex 28 de ago 20:04"
September 14, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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Achievement unlocked: get a shoutout in a talk that also features the strange æons “nosy bitch” meme :D @drakulix o/
media.ccc.de player: slide titled “SIDE-QUESTS” with a screenshot of codeberg repo view for wl-cross-domain-proxy with my commit being the latest
September 13, 2026 at 3:54 AM
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Actually the hard part is making contacts for the stock button x_x "Thin wires in the vague place where the spring will be" obviously don't work lol
Milk frother wand disassembled in two halves, motor installed, with a small lithium ion battery cell, a charging PCB with a USB-C port, a flyback diode, another diode in series, and metal wires reaching up into the space where the lid is (that is supposed to touch AA batteries, with these curved metal tab springs)
September 12, 2026 at 7:21 AM
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Finally found one of those disposable vapes, without specifically looking for one. Someone, uh, disposed of it right in the bike lane. That's a whole-ass 3.7V 900mAh cell!! (112038) And an 8051 based MCU of course.

Probably not gonna just keep […]

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Diaassembled disposable vape with a rectangular cell and the PCBs (one little button one attached perpendicularly to the main one that has the LED panel (with fixed icons to shine thru) and the MCU amd stuff Disassembled super cheapo milk foamer, just a motor and a battery compartment directly powering the motor
September 10, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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My first #criticalmass \o/ this was fun, even if it did give me critical(ly sore) ass after cycling through the entire length of the city back and forth.

Best part: DOGGO! Second best part: the DJ blasting “Blue” by Eiffel 65. 📷: Lumix GF5 / Lumix 20mm f/1.7.
A tricycle with a big sound system in the back, with a white frame and a suspension fork. Also a big white flag with a logo on it, and a small Argentina flag, all in the back on vertical poles. Other bicycles and their owners are all around. It’s all on a public square in the middle of a highway, buildings are visible in the background A little flag of Argentina hanging from a pole horizontally attached (like outwards) to a bike suspension fork that also has a wide wooden box with a metal electronics (audio) box inside. Background is quite blurred but you can see there are people with bicycles A tiny dog, chihuahua, in a red plastic milk crate mounted to the rear rack of a bicycle
September 7, 2026 at 4:54 AM
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[food]

Today’s edition of Fried What’s-left-after-not-getting-groceries-in-a-week: 2 onions, a carrot, a bag of tofu, a bell pepper, a can of corn, and parmesan type cheese. Pretty good! Probably the best I managed to make tofu taste at home so far […]

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September 3, 2026 at 10:56 AM
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[juvenile]

@whitequark
September 1, 2026 at 1:52 AM
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Greetings to @metalab 🇦🇹 friends who visited @rlab 🇦🇷 yesterday!!
Four stickers: exit sign with vim "esc : w q ! Enter" keys, "NSA Monitored Device", "Off the record", and Metalab logo
August 26, 2026 at 8:07 PM
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Have you ever opened a glass-back phone with nothing but estradiol pill blisters, only to put it in the freezer?

…yeah so my old OP7T that my roommate was using. Suddenly not responding, not even to long presses. Popped out the battery, turned it on […]

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Phone open from the back, back glass panel on the side, two pill blister packs Forum post screenshot: Solipsfilm* - New member - Jan 9, 2025 - #38 SAVED ALL MY DATA! Usually I don't type all caps, but I really found a fix for those needing to quickly get their data back. I noticed that it would try to boot better before crashing if the phone was cold so naturally I put it in the freezer for 20min to see what would happen.. To my disbelief the phone started up and worked for 3 minutes before crashing again with these artifacts on the screen and going back to bootloop.. So I took my laptop, a long USB-C cable then I put the phone in the freezer, door closed, cable hanging out and sat next to the freezer (-18°C) and managed to copy all of my foto's and videos from the device! Copied over an hour and half so it was pretty stable! The moment I took it out of the freezer (the phone had ice all over the screen 😂) it crashed within 5 minutes again when it heated up. I saved 79GB worth of data from it! Extremely relieved I didn't loose 8 months worth of video, foto's and messages. So yeah, I was lucky and it was a good lesson that backups are very important 😅 Oh important sidenote, before all this I charged the battery to 100% because when the phone is that cold it doesn't charge in the freezer! If you don't get anything on the screen at first it is in a crash loop or the battery is too dead. While plugged in: Hold volume up and power button at the same time (sometimes it takes about a minute to respond) until you see the logo. Then it should go to the charging screen where you can leave it until charged. Really hope this helps someone else out saving their data. Good luck! Phone in a freezer on top of plastic food containers, open back side up, battery inserted, USB cable going out of the freezer
August 24, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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Woooo hecking yes \o/ the True 100% Zero-Copy Fast Path for Wayland SHM sharing over virtio-gpu works!! This has been kind of an open side-quest for me for like a year. Finally was motivated to actually-just-do-it by the fact that on Xen it's […]

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August 24, 2026 at 8:31 AM
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@0xabad1dea "the washington monument" lol i'm sorry the yankee obelisk is hidden in bumfuck nowhere and has never even worn a condom
the obelisk covered in a giant red condom
August 18, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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@krutonium that logo is kinda VHS vibes
August 11, 2026 at 9:38 AM
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had some coffee-infused pla filament for a couple months.. finally got a reason to use it xD #3dprinting
A moka pot basket in a printed support and with a printed funnel on top, all standing on the bottom part of the pot
August 10, 2026 at 11:39 PM
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[SLOP SLOP SLOP (visual)]

What in the fucking shit is this stupid crap
"YouTube Playables", with all AI slop thumbnails: "Gas Station", "Train Miner", "My Mini Mart", "Makeover Stylist", "Running Pet"
August 8, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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Finally got an internal gear hub installed on my bike (got a lucky local deal on a lightly used Nexus 7.. ha why does that sound like a tablet name-) aaaaaaa it’s so good now. Fuck derailleurs, all my homies hate derailleurs.
Close up photo of the rear wheel of a parked folding bicycle, with an ice cream cone in front (for scale, err, to celebrate). The wheel hub is thicc and there’s only one sprocket visible outside.
August 1, 2026 at 11:28 PM
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Ah yes the USB modes we know and love,
Notifications <Clear all> USB Mode Selector USB netboot_mode mode Select mode to change the connection D… er | Te… g | C… ng | MTP | ho… e
July 27, 2026 at 12:34 AM
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also errorception. Absolutely nothing works I guess
Previous screenshot in a mastodon client, on a red background, "Subida fallida", retry/remove buttons
July 7, 2026 at 7:04 AM
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mm yes love to have a certificate error in a —(checks notes)— pair of proprietary mobile apps connecting to each other entirely locally
Error: java.security.cert.CertPathValidatorException: Trust anchor for certification path not found.
July 7, 2026 at 7:01 AM
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today in gratuitous overconsumption (by my standards okay??): the save icon ssd cage has arrived yay
gray floppy disk shaped object with an adapter pcb inside and a 2230 m.2 SSD mounted to it, light lime colored cover
June 29, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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lmao
"NSFW ASS KNUCCLES" (white-on-red NSFW badge covering part of the "BRASS KNUCCLES" [sic] label inside of the image)
June 27, 2026 at 9:42 AM
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the mastodon OCR had a great time with the logos. ah yes love to work for LocKweeD marTin. 420 blaze it am i right
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June 24, 2026 at 12:01 AM
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i saw the home page of gitlab dot com accidentally when logging in to respond to a comment and what in the holy corposlop is any of this

even beyond "AI this AI that"… what the hell is SAST and DAST?!
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June 24, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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eXCUSE ME???
In-page Google Translate translating "FedEx Economy" as "FedEx Paralympics"
June 17, 2026 at 10:14 AM