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It’s that JSR

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Generic Gen-X Nerd. I do post here, but it's very much a subset of my posts to Mastodon, as I have zero confidence in VC-backed corporate social media. Various links at https://jsr.com mastodon: [email protected]

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It’s that JSR @jsr.com · 3d

Is it churlish to point out that whatever broke in your work/life flow today, due to Amazon breaking us-east-1, is also a solid subset of what the US government could take from you (or simply monitor for badthink) due to (just as an example) that government being run by nazis?

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It’s that JSR @jsr.com · 3d

My first car was a late 60’s Mini, and every so often I get nostalgic enough to look at buying another one. But. I walked past one parked on our street recently and … damn, they are small. I don’t think I could fit in a classic mini any more. In fact, it’s possible that I could wear one as a hat.

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It’s that JSR @jsr.com · 8d

I’ve been feeling quite a lot less crap recently, and so over the last couple of days I’ve had the spoons to do a bunch of work on various computers around the house, and I don’t know if they are _fixed_ but they are definitely _different_.

It’s that JSR @jsr.com · 9d

I can't find my multimeter, despite invoking the ancient magics to locate it, by which I mean wandering around the house muttering "Multimeter, multimeter, multimeter..."

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It’s that JSR @jsr.com · 13d

Friendship ended with cast iron pan. Stainless steel pan is my best friend now.

It’s that JSR @jsr.com · 18d

They literally would have been better off saving those files to the local disk connected to their workstation. At least then one fire wouldn’t have taken it all out.

It’s that JSR @jsr.com · 18d

n THIS day and age, I am seldom personally shocked by shitty tech stories. But as it turns out, it's still possible.

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NIRS fire destroys government's cloud storage system, no backups available

A fire at the National Information Resources Service (NIRS) Daejeon headquarters destroyed the government’s G-Drive cloud storage system, erasing work files saved individually by some 750,000 civil se...

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It’s that JSR @jsr.com · 22d

Can confirm, yes.

It’s that JSR @jsr.com · 22d

I have received more than one unpleasant medical diagnosis this week, and I do not like it.

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Annette @annettle.bsky.social · 27d

The entire week @jsr.com and the kid were away I was worried that Naboo was being distant and withdrawn bc he never joined me in bed and didn’t want to hang out much, but since they got home last night he has been glued to JSR like a surgically attached koala. Guess we know who’s the favourite 😳

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It’s that JSR @jsr.com · 26d

The feeling of getting home to your own bed after some time away is a very positive feeling. AAA+++ GOOD FEELING WOULD FEEL AGAIN

It’s that JSR @jsr.com · 29d

The South Canterbury town Geraldine (pop 3000) doesn’t have much nightlife. We did see a yellow (and later red) traffic bar for the main road on the maps app during the day. We drove through it and the affected road segment contained, to a first order approximation by my Auckland eyes, zero cars.

It’s that JSR @jsr.com · Sep 23

I feel like going to a 70s-style roller skating rink where they play 80s and 90s goth and industrial music while I skate around a circle for a few hours would fix me.

It’s that JSR @jsr.com · Sep 23

Saaaaame

It’s that JSR @jsr.com · Sep 23

I feel like constructing additional pylons would fix me.

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It’s that JSR @jsr.com · Sep 22

I just watched the pilot for Knights Of Guinivere from Glitch Productions. Immediate thoughts:

(1) it is AMAZING. I am all in, just based on this pilot.

(2) Dana Terrace did NOT I repeat DID NOT have a fun time dealing with Disney when making The Owl House.

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It’s that JSR @jsr.com · Sep 21

My high school sported as uniform items both Nomad shoes, which very much looked like an East German product designed for the lumpen proletariat to wear while trudging... and Sub Four shorts, which were 100% an item one could have worn to the most decadent West Berlin nightclub without any issue.

It’s that JSR @jsr.com · Sep 21

The athletic running guys at my high school wore shorts which were called (if memory serves) "Sub Fours" and they were like Stubbies shorts, except they were also slit up the sides "for increased movement." In retrospect, they were the sluttiest little twink shorts you could possibly imagine.

Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · Sep 20

For most of the 70s and 80s everyone's dad was wearing Stubbies, absolutely everywhere!

Foxy @foxylustygrover.bsky.social · Sep 20

Even this meme forgot us so I wanna hear you most gen x complaint?

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