Did you leave your Wii at the #EMF2024 Swap Shop?
If so, it's now hosting my blog:
https://blog.infected.systems/posts/2025-04-21-this-blog-is-hosted-on-a-nintendo-wii/
Huge credit to @jmcwhatever for the effort porting NetBSD to the Wii!
also this page on colour contains one of the few grumpy comments in the zine, it might not make it into the final version tbh because I think being a curmudgeon is boring
In other news, I think I'm going to be able to make a delightfully silly cyberdeck thing with this old kid's toy. The black square is a full 720x720 display that entirely fits within the "screen" recess, and still leave room for the punch cards to be inserted behind it. Originally those determined which of 64 different sequences the buttons had to be pushed in, to teach counting or words or whatever the card had printed on it. In mine, that will be what accesses different modes. Want to see the weather report? Insert the weather report card. I think it might actually be an interesting experiment in a more deliberate, intentional form of mobile computing.
It has taken way longer than we hoped, but we now have our own instance. I have just finished migrating my account so I would appreciate it if you could boost this post so our little instance gets noticed by a bunch of servers. Here's a picture of my cats Huginn and Muninn so I am at least adding something to the fediverse instead of just asking for something.
A reminder that in May I'm doing a charity bike ride for prostate cancer and men's mental health, the Distinguished Gentleman's Ride: https://www.gentlemansride.com/fundraisers/CharlotteDavis42069 Please donate and/or reblog! 🏍️
MrBeast's face is so annoying I didn't notice the watermark until the end then couldn't be bothered to redo it
Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.