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Val Packett 🧉
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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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@never_released "buying a VR headset to play with a 'new' SIMD instruction set" sounds so wild lol
September 14, 2026 at 6:42 PM
@bodil mmmm, "bankrupting the entire VC world" would be a good consolation prize out of all this BS lol
September 13, 2026 at 7:22 PM
@siriusfox I have a daily pmOS phone.. but I didn’t even sync my music to it xD Haven’t been listening to anything on the go like, at all
September 13, 2026 at 4:40 AM
(BTW to this day still no one has explained what "mrmcd" stands for so I'll keep assuming it's "Mr.McDonalds". Don't tell me the real meaning now!)
September 13, 2026 at 3:55 AM
@siriusfox beets to "manage", rsync etc. to copy around..

aaaaaa if I had infinite energy / executive function I'd have made a fork of Gapless that much more closely resembles iTunes 11, uses beets for the library, syncs over p2panda and and and …
September 13, 2026 at 3:44 AM
@drakulix YES LOL gotta actually patch vkcube to do this aaa
September 12, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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
September 12, 2026 at 7:21 AM
@tendstofortytwo not an issue, why would it be. I don't expect interchangeable lenses on every camera, especially not on a 200g pocket one
September 11, 2026 at 11:48 PM
@tendstofortytwo lifehack: use postmarketOS on your phone, then "just" pulling out your phone means (for now) there's no quick camera access w/o entering the passcode and the camera quality is terrible anyway, so pulling out a proper camera is much faster :D

(for my smol jeans-pocket camera […]
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September 11, 2026 at 9:19 AM
@glyph I'm 200% convinced that building reliable and good peer-to-peer communications is **required** to have a fighting chance against all the shit. Not sufficient but absolutely required. We can't just "let the sysadmin vanguard maintain community servers for communities" and have some […]
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September 11, 2026 at 2:01 AM
@tendstofortytwo big caveat tho: "on microbenchmarks that don't take too long and aren't memory bound". Won't quite be 3x when the phone sized memory bus is the bottleneck and it's running hot and throttling lol
September 10, 2026 at 9:01 PM
@tendstofortytwo and om system pen ~~15~~ reveal but that's more for open ecosystem enjoyers heh
September 9, 2026 at 7:58 PM
@bodil and then there's the odd liminal space of having used ball mice as a kid, legitimately because optical wasn't widespread enough yet and parents didn't rush to upgrade, for juuust long enough to have a bit of nostalgia for it.. but not for long enough that any cleaning was required
September 9, 2026 at 5:19 PM
@serriadh that's odd, i would've expected the slopsters to go "who needs jj when my agent directly infers the raw git blobs" or something
September 4, 2026 at 7:05 PM