Kevin Purdy

Had a real “Get right with @obsidian.md ”’day. Amazes me how unobtrusive that program is to new ideas and systems. Just a modern marvel.

"Take me to your shelter, leader!" Do you have what it takes to be a shelter manager after World War III breaks out? Take this quiz from 1973 and find out!

Would you be a good leader of a communal fallout shelter in the event of World War III? Fortunately the US Department of Defense created a self-assessment quiz in the 1970s so that you can "rate yourself as a potential shelter leader"… doomsdaymachines.net/p/take-me-to...

Tailscale + BlueBubbles makes an iMessage on Windows and Android less complex Let Tailscale set up the encryption and permanent IP, and avoid port forwarding, for a BlueBubbles server.

Hey, weirdos (adulative)! Here's a thing about getting iMessage on all your devices, if you're the type to keep a Mac running all the time. tailscale.com/blog/bluebub...

Who even hates the Bills that much? It is a suffering brought forward out of deep time by the Old Gods, suffering not compassed by any mere human spite or schadenfreude, but immense—implacable—indifferent—and whose meaning is its meaninglessness.

Using a combination of glitches in Super Mario World, Yoshi can be taken into the final battle, where he can eat Peach upon Bowser's defeat. With Peach gone, the ending will not play, and Mario and Yoshi will simply stare at each other forever.

1. Pirates! (NES)
2. Maniac Mansion (NES)
3. Chrono Trigger
4. System Shock
5. Jagged Alliance 2
6. Fallout
7. X-Com 2
8. Elden Ring
9. Disco Elysium
10. Satisfactory

Years In Review, 2022-2025: thepurdman.com/2022-to-2025...

How to put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle (and why you should) Jailbreaking a Kindle makes it able to do much more. Adding Tailscale takes the Kindle even further.

People (even some non-HN-reading people!) have been enjoying the jailbroken Kindle post.

It is *always* the post you think is too niche, too late, too specific that gets legs.

I thank @annaleen.bsky.social for the perfect quote via KOReader. (Buy their book!)

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Suddenly it’s just … fun and easy?

Computer couldn’t run System Shock as a teen. Later, I had to fill in covering a speech by a big college donor.

Ask me how I know!

I'll see you there, too. #AllThingsOpen

imagine fleeing the Vietnam War and in your arms you're carrying a baby who will one day grow up to correct the US Secretary of Defense on his jeans. like bringing a football into the end zone

Tailscale's web-based SSH is the easiest way to log into weird little computers You deserve some always-on gadgets—and an easier way to access them.

Among the many things that improve once you set up your gear on a Tailscale tailnet: no longer having to remember IP addresses and passwords for SSH-ing into headless devices. tailscale.com/blog/tailsca...

That last bit? 😚

I have a "Home State Movie Club" with some friends, and this is my household's pick for Upstate NY*. "Nobody's Fool" feels more like upstate NY than any movie I've seen.

* Having NYC in your selection pool is like having 1/4 of all movies available, so we chose creative constraints.

Entirely forgot about Willis! That's how natural this movie feels. He's just a jerk, in town.

(There will be a Drop folder forever, I am going to have to leave instructions in my will for how to delete it and erase the 34 eyeglass prescription PDFs inside).

Upgrading a Chromebook with Tailscale, Taildrop, and Taildrive How Tailscale makes trading files between a Chromebook and other devices secure and easy.

After I got the CMS keys, I got down to the first order of business at @tailscale.com : Writing 2,000 words about using Tailscale to make Chromebooks more multi-OS-friendly. No more Drive folder named "Drop" for me! tailscale.com/blog/tailsca...

How to Avoid a Huge Customs Bill on a Cheap Online Order An exemption for imports from China worth less than $800 has been lifted, leaving some buyers stuck with big tariff bills. Here’s what to do.

incredibly well-researched, super helpful, and, frankly, fun piece from @kimberstreams.bsky.social about how to deal with tariffs when shopping online!

Hi! I'm writing about this finding that seemed to come out of nowhere about the Xband Rough/FF font use in "You Wouldn't" campaign. Might I ask if you have any comment? (Following now for DM, but also into the future!)

Love that guys who won like 6 games here a year come back and are treated like heroes and will do anything for us. Buffalo is a weird stupid family

Tactical Breach Wizards on Steam In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to ...

My obligation (?) to share this good game professionally (?) has long since passed. Also, I did write about it, twice! But this was a very good game, and I am going to replay it for both the build choices and dialogue trees (!!!) store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/...

It’s not open to the wider internet. I trust an up-to-date Debian distribution on RPiz2W more than … whatever is on that Brother firmware.

The only reliable wireless printing, or even just networking printing, I have been able to achieve at home in this lifetime is by running a dedicated CUPS server on a Raspberry Pi (now a Pi Zero 2W).

Don't even let people tell you something is a solved problem. Gutenberg: still relevant in 2024.

Instead of having playoffs, the college football championship should be between the best college team and the worst NFL team. If the college team wins, they get to become an NFL franchise, and the NFL team has to become a university.

It’s Malort But Kids Like It

I had a can of Loganberry in my ex-pat fridge here for 4 months before I poured it out to make room for Thanksgiving.

I domained!

Did the NYT really rip off a verge story about an influencer allegedly ripping off the aesthetic of another influencer? Or did they just happen to cover the same lawsuit in a similar way a couple of weeks later? www.theverge.com/2024/11/26/2...