walking mirage

@atomicthumbs

remote sensing practicioner

they
wolf.observer/

gregarious canid. avatar by ISANANIKA.

Website League address

@wolf@forest.stream

fediverse

tacobelllabs.net/@atomicthumbs

send me an email

atomicthumbs@wolf.observer

twitter but hopefully i only post photos there in the future

twitter.com/atomicthumbs

newsletter!! this one will let me tell you where i go

buttondown.com/atomicthumbs

newsletter rss same thing

buttondown.com/atomicthumbs/rss

Website League (centralized federation social media project)

websiteleague.org/

Push Processing (Website League photography instance)

pushprocess.ing/

88x31 button embed code

forest.stream (general admission website league instance)

forest.stream/

bluesky (probably just for photos)

bsky.app/profile/wolf.observer

this will be a cohost museum someday

cohost.rip/

walking mirage @atomicthumbs10/11/2022, 2:07 AM

Tom (tired of the computer)@masklayer

DeeDee Six @D601610/9/2022, 10:16 PM

awoo time

awoooooooo

onebug @numberonebug10/10/2022, 1:05 AM

awoooooo

Tom (tired of the computer)@masklayer10/10/2022, 2:26 AM

awooo

#this feels a little familiar

walking mirage @atomicthumbs10/11/2022, 1:30 AM

Tom (tired of the computer)@masklayer

Gay Eminem on 9/11 @DecayWTF10/10/2022, 5:42 AM

Cohosh dot org

Welcome to Cohosh dot org, the internet superhighway web net site all about Actaea racemosa (syn. Cimicifuga racemosa), the black cohosh. Please enjoy your stay.

walking mirage @atomicthumbs10/9/2022, 3:57 AM

Pendell @pendell

Pendell @pendell10/5/2022, 4:26 AM

weird dvd ram stuff

In my DVD-RAM era, in case it wasn't extremely obvious. Allow me to share some of the useless information I've absorbed and find mildly intriguing.

DVD-RAM is most known in its "final" form, where it is 4.7GB (or sold as 9.4GB for double sided discs), matching regular DVDs perfectly in capacity. But, initially, there was a "version 1.0" of DVD-RAM which only stored 2.6GB (5.2GB for double sided)! Not talking about the 8cm discs for camcorders (I don't think they introduced those at all for version 1.0), no, these were full-size 12cm discs, but they had nearly half the capacity of regular DVDs! It's clear from how short-lived that version was and how quickly it was brushed under the rug that it was a case of "who cares if it's not finished, get it to shelves now!!!"
There are, I hear, some PowerMacs which included an official Apple-supported DVD-RAM drive that supported this 2.6GB standard, and accepted cartridges for such. I have yet to see any pictures or videos of any of those in use.
While there unfortunately was no successive "BD-RAM" as cool as that would have been, there was a precursor and effective "CD-RAM" developed almost exclusively by Matsushita called PD650. It looks almost identical to a cartridge-based DVD-RAM, even down to the disc, though it only stored 650MB. The drives for those discs could read CD-ROMs, and I may be mistaken but it may have been possible to read the PD650 discs in regular CD-ROM drives, given the data was organized in a non-illegal manner.
Drives made for that initial 1.0 version of DVD-RAM were backwards compatible with PD650 discs! However, it seems the finalized 4.7GB drives ditched that support, although I have yet to test that myself. Weird. I wonder if that means those elusive PowerMacs could also use the PD650 discs... 🤔