Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

The best part about working from home is access to my kitchen.

I'm pretty proud of my ability to cook, and I live right by a grocery story, so rather than hit a local restaurant with coworkers like I used to, I can just make a quick shopping trip, throw together a recipe, and have a high-quality meal for pennies on the dollar from my old pre-2020 habits.

There are good restaurants in my neighborhood too, but it's nice to keep leveling up my culinary skills!

@pnwres My dog Lily is also a notorious toy destroyer, and we thought giving her more robust toys would give her more a a challenge.

Then she started damaging her teeth because she was too determined to destroy any toy we gave her...

Amazing that Amazon has billions of dollars of computing infrastructure, is diving head-first into machine learning and AI, and yet you can search "16TB SSD" on their storefront and find countless options under $50 because they really don't give a single shit if their customers are getting scammed.

Curiosity got the best of me, and I decided to investigate .eth domains.

Not interested in actually using them, or owning one, just wanted to see how they work.

Conclusion: They don't actually work. You either need a special browser, or a browser extension, and they redirect you elsewhere on the actual web.

Literally no way to actually host anything at those domains. Nothing after the '/' will ever do anything.

Web3 is such a joke. I can't believe anyone actually takes it seriously.

@inoneear RE-PC & 3R have hooked me up with some great stuff over the years!

Currently hunting for a better 1U server to host my personal VMware hypervisor on, and a Apple Powerbook G4 to run MorphOS on.

Didn't find what I was looking for during my recent visit to RE-PC, but I did find a couple of silly nerd toys to play with.

Need to make a trip to Kent soon to see what 3R has to offer.

@KayJanes I was just a kid, but I basically remember it as if Circuit City was also a theme park.

RE-PC, a used electronics shop in #Seattle, uses inventory bins from Incredible Universe for parts management.

Incredible Universe went out of business 26 years ago!

I have vague memories of visiting one in Atlanta when I was a kid.

Check out this image I found

Woo! 1,500 followers!

@sh @logjk Yeah, this is the RPi4 version. It's pretty nice.

It was ordered before they decided to nuke their reputation here, so it might be the last RPi product I take on, but despite that it is very cool. Took over 100 days for delivery, so be warned, Clockwork is very slow on the fulfillment side.

Using Mastodon on my #cyberdeck.

@vantablack Great look for you! Also, love the Spinel pin!