Les Orchard <me@lmorchard.com>

I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS

in other words, I totally thought I was going nuts but no FS-UAE was gaslighting me

Today I learned: the Amiga emulator FS-UAE by default uses copy-on-write for floppy images. And you can only disable that with a writable_floppy_images=1 config option mentioned nowhere in the launcher. So if you're trying to prepare an ADF floppy image for an Amiga with a Gotek floppy emulator, and the disk keeps looking empty, it's because there's a copy-on-write overlay on the PC running the emulator and the ADF file never gets updated.

And that's just one of the smallest SD cards I have on hand. I'd melt my teen brain if I went back in time and showed him a storage device over 7800x times bigger than his 128mb hard drive yet small enough that I accidentally dropped it between the floorboards (which is a thing i did)

Turns out Amigas don't like big hard drives. And by big I mean 125x bigger than the 128mb hard drive I bought with my allowance, back in the day

No, YOU just spent the last couple of nights screwing around setting up an SD card with Amiga software in an emulator, planning to plug it into a real Amiga 1200. (er wait, no, you probably didn't. but i did)

I looked at my iPhone and it didn't unlock. I flipped it off and it did unlock.

PAKIDGE INTENSIFIES

This image makes me think it's the lovely neighbor couple at my door with a tupperware bowl of guacamole for the superb owl party https://www.therundown.ai/p/what-openai-and-jony-ive-are-building

Playing some Unreal Tournament 99 and remembered that the first time I heard System of a Down was because some kid had embedded a WAV of "Toxicity" in a giant level of a bedroom & bathroom where everyone was mouse-sized. #gaming #unreal #ut99

Installed a doorbell camera a couple months ago, because we are furtive creatures here. It's not a Ring. Tempted to hang a sign that reads "camera not connected to internet"