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Full-stack web developer at American University in D.C., dad, vintage computing nerd, and No Man's Sky explorer. I live in Alexandria, Virginia and my views / toots are my own. (He/him) [Originally joined (diff instance): 08/19/2018]

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Full-stack web developer at American University in D.C., dad, vintage computing nerd, and No Man's Sky explorer. I live in Alexandria, Virginia and my views / toots are my own. (He/him) [Originally joined (diff instance): 08/19/2018]

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@blakespot@oldbytes.space · 1d ago

There's an unholy, shambling Mouse King on the floor of my vintage computer room.

#mouse #mice #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #cables #HID #inputdevice #Atari #Mac #ps2 #infestation #photo #computers #hardware #tech #ByteCellar

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Full-stack web developer at American University in D.C., dad, vintage computing nerd, and No Man's Sky explorer. I live in Alexandria, Virginia and my views / toots are my own. (He/him) [Originally joined (diff instance): 08/19/2018]

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Blake Patterson

@blakespot@oldbytes.space

Full-stack web developer at American University in D.C., dad, vintage computing nerd, and No Man's Sky explorer. I live in Alexandria, Virginia and my views / toots are my own. (He/him) [Originally joined (diff instance): 08/19/2018]

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@blakespot@oldbytes.space · 4d ago

The announcement out of AwesomeCon has come.

Nathan Fillion and Crew Reunite for ‘Firefly’ Animated Series

https://www.thetvcave.com/post/firefly-animated-series-what-we-know

"Grab your brown coats and a very expensive bottle of Mudder’s Milk, because the impossible just happened. After two decades of "maybe next year" and enough fan petitions to paper the entire Verse, Nathan Fillion has finally stopped teasing us on Instagram and dropped the big one: a Firefly animated series is officially in advanced development."

The series takes place between the original TV series and Serenity, the film.

#IAimToMisbehave #Firefly #Serenity #AwesomeCon #nathanfillion #animation #animatedseries #entertainment #entertainmentnews #hollywood #SciFi #nostalgia #actors #spacemovies #ScienceFiction

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Full-stack web developer at American University in D.C., dad, vintage computing nerd, and No Man's Sky explorer. I live in Alexandria, Virginia and my views / toots are my own. (He/him) [Originally joined (diff instance): 08/19/2018]

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@blakespot@oldbytes.space

Full-stack web developer at American University in D.C., dad, vintage computing nerd, and No Man's Sky explorer. I live in Alexandria, Virginia and my views / toots are my own. (He/him) [Originally joined (diff instance): 08/19/2018]

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@blakespot@oldbytes.space · 5d ago

Well done.

#war #news #iran #wariniran #oil #affordability #economy #morons #destroyingAmerica #worldnews #America #Americans #casualties

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Full-stack web developer at American University in D.C., dad, vintage computing nerd, and No Man's Sky explorer. I live in Alexandria, Virginia and my views / toots are my own. (He/him) [Originally joined (diff instance): 08/19/2018]

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@blakespot@oldbytes.space

Full-stack web developer at American University in D.C., dad, vintage computing nerd, and No Man's Sky explorer. I live in Alexandria, Virginia and my views / toots are my own. (He/him) [Originally joined (diff instance): 08/19/2018]

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@blakespot@oldbytes.space · Feb 15, 2026

@tapbots@tapbots.social You know what would be awesome and super helpful? A way to store a collection of hashtags for topics a user often posts about and drop them in a toot, using a single special hashtag that Ivory translates.

Maybe if you type ##mysavedtags3 Ivory would swap in a stored list of tags the user setup earlier.

This is on my wishlist.

#mastodon #tapbots #tapbot

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Full-stack web developer at American University in D.C., dad, vintage computing nerd, and No Man's Sky explorer. I live in Alexandria, Virginia and my views / toots are my own. (He/him) [Originally joined (diff instance): 08/19/2018]

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Blake Patterson

@blakespot@oldbytes.space

Full-stack web developer at American University in D.C., dad, vintage computing nerd, and No Man's Sky explorer. I live in Alexandria, Virginia and my views / toots are my own. (He/him) [Originally joined (diff instance): 08/19/2018]

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@blakespot@oldbytes.space · Feb 15, 2026

Look what was just dropped off on the front porch! It's the Traveller Plush from YouTooz (as linked out by Sean a few months back)!

#NoMansSky #NMS #SciFi #procgen #spacegames #games #gaming #gamers #PCgaming #Steam #macGaming #Switch #PS4 #PS5 #XBox #HelloGames #explorationgames #plush #plushie #merch #photo #youtooz

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@blakespot@oldbytes.space

Full-stack web developer at American University in D.C., dad, vintage computing nerd, and No Man's Sky explorer. I live in Alexandria, Virginia and my views / toots are my own. (He/him) [Originally joined (diff instance): 08/19/2018]

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Blake Patterson

@blakespot@oldbytes.space

Full-stack web developer at American University in D.C., dad, vintage computing nerd, and No Man's Sky explorer. I live in Alexandria, Virginia and my views / toots are my own. (He/him) [Originally joined (diff instance): 08/19/2018]

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@blakespot@oldbytes.space · Feb 13, 2026

After years of listening to true crime podcasts, I can tell you one thing: if you are a female "with a smile that brightens up a room," you are basically waiting for your own episode. Apparently.

#truecrime #crime #podcasts #podcast #everytime #everycase #badluck #criminal #investigation

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Full-stack web developer at American University in D.C., dad, vintage computing nerd, and No Man's Sky explorer. I live in Alexandria, Virginia and my views / toots are my own. (He/him) [Originally joined (diff instance): 08/19/2018]

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Blake Patterson

@blakespot@oldbytes.space

Full-stack web developer at American University in D.C., dad, vintage computing nerd, and No Man's Sky explorer. I live in Alexandria, Virginia and my views / toots are my own. (He/him) [Originally joined (diff instance): 08/19/2018]

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@blakespot@oldbytes.space · Feb 11, 2026

Is it me alone or are other people seeing EXTREMELY slow typing response (I just timed - the word 'response' took just over 3 seconds to display and catch up with my typing) in Mastodon - standard desktop web?

I have a 10-core Mac Studio with 32GB RAM and with only Mastodon open in Safari (no other tabs or windows) it's taking ~140% CPU. Latest OS.

What the hell is this?

#Mastodon #performance #Mac #macOS #hardware #Safari #browser #internet #toot #Masto #bug #help

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@blakespot@oldbytes.space

Full-stack web developer at American University in D.C., dad, vintage computing nerd, and No Man's Sky explorer. I live in Alexandria, Virginia and my views / toots are my own. (He/him) [Originally joined (diff instance): 08/19/2018]

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Blake Patterson

@blakespot@oldbytes.space

Full-stack web developer at American University in D.C., dad, vintage computing nerd, and No Man's Sky explorer. I live in Alexandria, Virginia and my views / toots are my own. (He/him) [Originally joined (diff instance): 08/19/2018]

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@blakespot@oldbytes.space · Feb 11, 2026

Trying to order a pizza. I have an account here.

Take my email and send a code to my inbox? Here's an idea -- how about asking me for

THE PASSWORD

to my account like civilized goddamn people do?? There's an idea!

#WTF #authentication #ridiculous #login #password #internet #web #screenshot #fail #canwenot

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@blakespot@oldbytes.space

Full-stack web developer at American University in D.C., dad, vintage computing nerd, and No Man's Sky explorer. I live in Alexandria, Virginia and my views / toots are my own. (He/him) [Originally joined (diff instance): 08/19/2018]

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Blake Patterson

@blakespot@oldbytes.space

Full-stack web developer at American University in D.C., dad, vintage computing nerd, and No Man's Sky explorer. I live in Alexandria, Virginia and my views / toots are my own. (He/him) [Originally joined (diff instance): 08/19/2018]

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@blakespot@oldbytes.space · Feb 10, 2026

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@blakespot@oldbytes.space

Full-stack web developer at American University in D.C., dad, vintage computing nerd, and No Man's Sky explorer. I live in Alexandria, Virginia and my views / toots are my own. (He/him) [Originally joined (diff instance): 08/19/2018]

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Blake Patterson

@blakespot@oldbytes.space

Full-stack web developer at American University in D.C., dad, vintage computing nerd, and No Man's Sky explorer. I live in Alexandria, Virginia and my views / toots are my own. (He/him) [Originally joined (diff instance): 08/19/2018]

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@blakespot@oldbytes.space · Feb 10, 2026

It astonished me that there exist no 32 or 32 inch curved OLED 2560x1440 ("2.5K") displays being manufactured -- at all.

All of that size and curvature are 4K in resolution.

I don't want to use 4K (or pay for such a display); it's 2.25x as many pixels and it's not nearly worth the huge extra load on the GPU, in my opinion -- and I have an RTX 5080.

Hopefully one will eventually emerge, but we will probably be seeing 8K versions of the aforementioned first. 🙄

https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/are-there-no-curved-32-inch-2560x1440-2-5k-oled-displays.1511580/

#PCgaming #OLED #display #monitor #gamingPC #hardware #build #PCbuild #Freesync #Gsync #setups #displaytech #QHD #WQHD #resolution #tech #technology #computers #gaming

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Full-stack web developer at American University in D.C., dad, vintage computing nerd, and No Man's Sky explorer. I live in Alexandria, Virginia and my views / toots are my own. (He/him) [Originally joined (diff instance): 08/19/2018]

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Full-stack web developer at American University in D.C., dad, vintage computing nerd, and No Man's Sky explorer. I live in Alexandria, Virginia and my views / toots are my own. (He/him) [Originally joined (diff instance): 08/19/2018]

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@blakespot@oldbytes.space · Feb 09, 2026

Wait… I've had this GameCube since about 2002 and the battery has just died, apparently. It looks like you have to open the GameCube and desolder a 2032 coin style battery to replace it.

How did the battery not die before now? Also, really? It has to be desoldered?

#Surprised #Nintendo #GameCube #console #retrogaming

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Full-stack web developer at American University in D.C., dad, vintage computing nerd, and No Man's Sky explorer. I live in Alexandria, Virginia and my views / toots are my own. (He/him) [Originally joined (diff instance): 08/19/2018]

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@blakespot@oldbytes.space

Full-stack web developer at American University in D.C., dad, vintage computing nerd, and No Man's Sky explorer. I live in Alexandria, Virginia and my views / toots are my own. (He/him) [Originally joined (diff instance): 08/19/2018]

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@blakespot@oldbytes.space · Feb 09, 2026

Which version is this? 🤔

#DefenderOfTheCrown #games #retrogames #retrogaming #console #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #CRT #Cinemaware #gamers #video #ByteCellar

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@blakespot@oldbytes.space

Full-stack web developer at American University in D.C., dad, vintage computing nerd, and No Man's Sky explorer. I live in Alexandria, Virginia and my views / toots are my own. (He/him) [Originally joined (diff instance): 08/19/2018]

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@blakespot@oldbytes.space

Full-stack web developer at American University in D.C., dad, vintage computing nerd, and No Man's Sky explorer. I live in Alexandria, Virginia and my views / toots are my own. (He/him) [Originally joined (diff instance): 08/19/2018]

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@blakespot@oldbytes.space · Feb 09, 2026

It pisses me off that Elon Shitstain used Arthur C. Clarke speaking about the communications satellite, which he proposed in his writings, for a Starlink ad.

#superbowl #Spacex #shit #ArthurCClarke #superbowlads #TV #superbowl60

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Full-stack web developer at American University in D.C., dad, vintage computing nerd, and No Man's Sky explorer. I live in Alexandria, Virginia and my views / toots are my own. (He/him) [Originally joined (diff instance): 08/19/2018]

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Blake Patterson

@blakespot@oldbytes.space

Full-stack web developer at American University in D.C., dad, vintage computing nerd, and No Man's Sky explorer. I live in Alexandria, Virginia and my views / toots are my own. (He/him) [Originally joined (diff instance): 08/19/2018]

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@blakespot@oldbytes.space · Feb 08, 2026

Having a ball with my original 1996 PSX now that I replaced the optical drive. Such an awesome console, with a 32-bit 33.87MHz MIPS R3000A CPU (with no floating point) made on a 500nm node.

Magic at the time.

Here's Crash Bandicoot running at 512x240 resolution on a CRT via s-video. What a blast!

#Playstation #SonyPlaystation #PSX #PS1 #console #consolegaming #retrogames #retrogaming #retrocomputing #nostalgia #CRT #games #gaming #gamers #MIPS #RISC #video #gamevideo #ByteCellar

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@blakespot@oldbytes.space

Full-stack web developer at American University in D.C., dad, vintage computing nerd, and No Man's Sky explorer. I live in Alexandria, Virginia and my views / toots are my own. (He/him) [Originally joined (diff instance): 08/19/2018]

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Blake Patterson

@blakespot@oldbytes.space

Full-stack web developer at American University in D.C., dad, vintage computing nerd, and No Man's Sky explorer. I live in Alexandria, Virginia and my views / toots are my own. (He/him) [Originally joined (diff instance): 08/19/2018]

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@blakespot@oldbytes.space · Feb 07, 2026

Sean posted an emoji. No Man's Sky update incoming (almost certainly to land Wednesday).

🦺

#NoMansSky #NMS #games #gaming #gamers #Steam #PC #PS4 #PS5 #Mac #Xbox #Switch #SciFi #spacegames #gamenews #procgen #update #HelloGames

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@blakespot@oldbytes.space · Feb 03, 2026

The regime is openly going for it, as anyone with any sense surely realized they would. “We have states that I won that show I didn’t win. Now you’re going to see something in Georgia where they were able to get, with a court order, the ballots. You’re going to see some interesting things come out.” -DT https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/trump-goes-public-with-plan-to-take-over-elections-fulton-county-georgia/ I've long realized elections in the United States are over. Well, elections as we knew them. (North Korea and Russia have "elections" too.) #criminal #election #electionfraud #midterms #election2028 #DC #news #worldnews #America #authoritarianism #destroyingAmerica #breakingnews #states #facism

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