Polychrome :clockworkheart:

👗 Mechanical Gothic Lolita 🎀
A messy piece of clockwork.

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Lover of tea, tokusatsu, old computers and blob emoji.
Swings between posting computer rants and comfy things.

:pcpleroma: :blobowo:

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2025-11-29 19:53:51 GMT

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@nprofile…r5ne so I should put a dedicated transformer that doesnt suck at each light fixture? :blobcatthink:

2025-11-28 13:24:03 GMT

I think I should rewire this place to carry DC power directly to fixed LED lighting instead of buying LED light bulbs with self contained cheap transformers that end up failing after a couple of months. :bloblamp:

2025-10-22 13:57:18 GMT

The recent AWS outage exposed just how many devices need always-on internet access keep track of scheduled events and it really weirds me out because nearly all of these devices have an on-board clock and scheduling events offline on-device has been a solved problem since like the 70's.
Automatic cat feeders that fail to trigger at the appointed time, smart mattresses with scheduled warm/cold functions that failed to change state, and many other 'smart home' related devices.
What's the point of requiring a remote server to ping a device over the internet at the appointed time when your product already comes with a built-in calendar function as part of its basic hardware and software design?

2025-10-21 10:44:33 GMT

Hello, I'm Polychrome and today I've learned that you can speed-run pizza.

2025-07-29 04:18:34 GMT

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@nprofile…l0gg that's the (relatively) reasonable approach, so far it looks like they're expecting the internet to accommodate them instead. The law is written with the assumption that we're all commercial entities with big tech cash.

2025-07-29 04:11:23 GMT

So... does the upcoming UK age verification law means all fedi instances must block the UK or shut down? :meowderpy:

2025-07-17 06:13:57 GMT

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@nprofile…m3qg I wanna kid about this but whenever credit card companies say "this is only about gross and terribly violent sexual content" they end up going after queer content too.
This'll could put Valve in an awkward position real soon.

2025-07-17 06:03:56 GMT

Steam just banned games with adult content.
https://www.engadget.com/gaming/steam-now-bans-games-that-violate-the-rules-and-standards-of-payment-processors-and-banks-164222173.html

2025-07-17 02:16:34 GMT

How do you pronounce a capital-B? :thonking:

2025-07-16 07:28:29 GMT

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@nprofile…trr6 I thought on Mastodon it was toot and "boost"? :blobcatthink:

2025-07-05 17:53:13 GMT

I'm thinking that with all of those people who fall asleep in #VR we need headsets that detects sleep and shuts down the displays to avoid blasting the user with blue light while sleeping.
Should be doable with head and pupil tracking, they already do this sort of sleep detection in certain vehicles.

2025-06-25 18:59:24 GMT

It took me 40 minutes of fussing and resitting the GPU before I realized the POST was reporting a video error because the video cable that I thought was going to the monitor was actually going to another computer.
:win3_setup: :blobcatgoogly2:

2025-06-13 09:17:35 GMT

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@nprofile…wmsn @nprofile…wc9r https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez8m4PXksQs

2025-06-05 13:24:45 GMT

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@nprofile…hmru @nprofile…47g8 Big Bang Theory was not nerd, it wad false nerd.

2025-06-02 09:23:27 GMT

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@nprofile…359z that fixed it. Now to automate the change across multiple systems... o.x

2025-06-02 09:20:32 GMT

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@nprofile…359z Yeah that's what I've been doing and it's been slowing down my work considerably.
While I expect defaults to change in major releases I also expect a way to toggle behavior, especially one that's been ingrained over years of use.
There is none.

2025-06-02 09:17:20 GMT

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@nprofile…359z that's cool but there should be a way to toggle this behavior because there's a whole bunch of other people who haven't been using this workflow.
Changing the default without providing a toggle just replaced one wrong with another.

2025-06-02 09:13:14 GMT

Looks like #GIMP 3 changed how pasting works so now it posts a new layer instead of a floating layer that you can instantly move, and it's been driving me crazy.
I've been digging through the menus but I can't work out a way to revert this.

2025-05-30 04:49:44 GMT

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@nprofile…qk42 my hackerspace does not have the poly queers and I'm feeling cheated.

2025-05-27 08:16:40 GMT

So Doom 5 (Eternal) replaced being able to use any weapon with having to use the right weapon combo per demon. Everyone seemed to love it except me.
Now Doom 6 ditchs run and gun for standing and fighting. People seem to love it - except me. I just dont see Doomguy walking and soaking damage like RoboCop.
As a Doom fan I'm feeling kinda left out. I still think Doom 4 was the best one in the series. :blobcatneutral:

2025-05-26 18:48:36 GMT

I want to set up a hacking honeypot but instead of the usual jailed or fake shell it'll be an LLM that pretends to be a shell and is specifically ordered to slowly make the "system" being accessed stranger and more and more demented over time.

2025-05-20 17:50:49 GMT

The Verge:
"Edit on Windows is an open-source project by Microsoft, and it enables developers to edit files directly in the command line, "
On the Command Line? Like ed or sed? :blobcatthink:
The Verge:
"just like vim, without having to switch to another app or window."
vim is not a command line editor, it's a visual editor- waaait a second... :blobcatthinkingglare:
It's Edit. They're bringing back Edit for MS-DOS.
@nprofile…h5sx, you're the news. Dont do this to me. :blobcatsad:
🔗 Edit for Windows:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/edit-is-now-open-source/
🔗 Verge article: https://www.theverge.com/news/669318/microsoft-edit-on-windows-command-line-text-editor
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2025-05-05 11:07:12 GMT

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@nprofile…csx6 for me that usually means I need to rest and recharge.

2025-04-20 23:45:10 GMT

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@nprofile…rr9y everything went sideways when applications became able to self update online.

2025-04-20 07:42:24 GMT

If you've updated #Thunderbird on Linux and noticed that it now got a permanent but useless system tray icon that won't go away, you can remove it by entering the Config Editor (Settings -> General, scroll all the way down) and setting 'mail.biff.show_tray_icon_always' to 'false'.

2025-04-11 12:27:27 GMT

More grown up adult protagonists in manga please. Preferably over the age of 30.

2025-04-11 12:13:13 GMT

Randomly remembering that moment from The Toys That Made Us episode about G.I.Joe where the character designer got interviewed and he openly admitted that he designed the Baroness after the very valid principle of "I drew what made me horny".

2025-04-10 14:41:23 GMT

A depressingly good post about how kids can't use computers.
http://coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-computers/
It's now 12 years old and only keeps becoming more true.

2025-04-10 04:33:06 GMT

I forgot why I didn't like SuSE Linux. It probably had something to do with the package manager. It was pretty good otherwise.

2025-04-05 18:31:56 GMT

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@nprofile…30m2 audible and tactile computing is the one thing I miss the most about computers.

2025-03-27 18:50:12 GMT

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@nprofile…3ph2 didn't they start with XMPP and dropped it in favor of making more money?

2025-03-26 03:49:13 GMT

#AI crawler defensive measure idea: Have an invisible link in your webpage that when accessed bans the requesting IP for several hours.

2025-03-24 18:12:20 GMT

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@nprofile…9qd0 I think it means you can vandalize public or government property but not private property :thonking:

2025-03-20 02:17:54 GMT

In Monocles Chat is there a way to copy my #XMPP chat history to a new device? As in, for adding a secondary device that'll be using different OMEMO keys but will share existing chat history.
Can't find a way to do this on Conversations IM either.

2025-03-16 13:50:45 GMT

@nprofile…kg7a so I have a terrible idea:
Using AI to make modern websites accessible on 80's/early 90's computers by presenting them as a BBS session or Gopher hole. It visits the website for you and builds the appropriate BBS screen.

2025-03-16 04:24:57 GMT

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@nprofile…de2h did you hear her singing with the original Japanese voice actress?

2025-03-16 04:07:49 GMT

A lot of people hate Robotech now days for bastardizing Macross but I'm actually glad it existed. If it weren't for it I wouldn't have learned of Macross, Southern Cross and especially MOSPEADA. I'd probably have learned of Macross eventually but it'd have taken me much longer.
Considering the western TV landscape at the time (especially in the US) editing those 3 shows together was the right move and Macross was the least changed of the three.
If you're going to be mad at anyone let it be Harmony Gold executives as they're the ones who blocked new Macross media and toys from reaching the west to protect an IP they barely did anything with.

2025-03-13 23:25:17 GMT

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@nprofile…csx6 what happen

2025-03-13 23:11:54 GMT

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@nprofile…0fkk @nprofile…guwd @nprofile…plxw @nprofile…csx6 Kaiba is great but traumatized me so hard that I'm not doing it again :blobcat_daradara:
(still recommend tho)

2025-03-09 11:33:29 GMT

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The financial realities of man sized ninja trained turtles in the New York sewer system.

2025-03-09 11:32:57 GMT

I was thinking about the pizza delivery scene from the first TMNT movie and I was like, hold on, where do they even have money from?
They live in the sewer and don't have a job, how do they afford the pizza?
Best I can figure Donatello does machines from salvaged parts and sells them for pizza money. :blobcatthonking:

2025-03-05 18:45:37 GMT

Brother (printers) has quietly joined the dark side.
https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/printers/brother-accused-of-locking-down-third-party-printer-ink-cartridges-via-firmware-updates-removing-older-firmware-versions-from-support-portals
Wonder how difficult it would be to come up with an open hardware laser printer that doesn't rely on central megacorp control.

2025-02-28 06:54:28 GMT

@nprofile…m3qg say, since you know 6502 assembly do you by chance know of good 6502 test suites? I have an Apple 1 emulator with some badly implemented opcodes that I need to catch.

2025-02-27 08:23:38 GMT

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@nprofile…hmru @nprofile…8fzj I chose AMD because Linux and now it bites me every time I want to run something and it turns out to be a CUDA exclusive.
There's ROCm but in reality that thing is a pain to get working with Conda, which is the usual combination for what I keep encountering.

2025-02-27 04:14:39 GMT

Thinking back to all those movies where detectives sit outside in the car on a stakeout and wondering how that's going to work with the sort of introverted nerds who almost never leave the house.

2025-02-27 03:59:13 GMT

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@nprofile…2mzm @nprofile…fle4 right, because that's the legal entity behind Firefox that'll get sued for whatever. It's a boilerplate legal butt-cover that lets Mozilla's Firefox upload your data as you yourself instruct to servers of your choice as far as I can see.
Not sure what I am missing that's making it dangerous.

2025-02-27 03:40:43 GMT

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@nprofile…m3qg @nprofile…uacs oh that's part of the wondering for sure.
I bet it's an Amiga.

2025-02-27 03:31:54 GMT

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@nprofile…uacs I always wandered what these sort of sets looked like from the other side!
As expected, lots of plywood.

2025-02-27 03:29:17 GMT

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@nprofile…fle4 looks like it means they're giving themselves the right to upload the data to the web server that you're choosing to upload the data to.
In other words, they're covering their butt as to their right to do what you're actually intending to do and nothing else but.
What am I missing here?

2025-02-14 23:11:28 GMT

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@nprofile…z3a5 where's her right eye tho

2025-02-12 02:55:36 GMT

That moment when someone says you're hot and you excitedly thank them and explain it's thanks to this neat electronic handwarmers built into your gloves and infodump about further planned upgrades.

2025-01-24 13:42:49 GMT

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@nprofile…m3qg @nprofile…evg9 I'm guessing you're supposed to click the prayer, sea horse and 'plus-in-a-circle' (arrows?) icons.

2024-09-23 21:52:12 GMT

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@npub1t2c…d0pp network effect. e.g. companies that make the sort of figurines I collect post updates on Twitter near exclusively.

2024-09-09 23:09:42 GMT

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@npub1c5t…h8gn how many does LiveJournal still got? It's a very different beast now that Russia owns it but it's still around.

2024-09-09 21:08:57 GMT

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@npub1c5t…h8gn Dreamwidth is still around since 2008 and they never embraced cryptocurrency. :blobcatshrug:

2024-09-09 17:53:31 GMT

The entire computer market: "THIS IS THE BEST AI HARDWARE"
97% of customers: "Okay but can it run Chrome and Minecraft"

2024-09-06 20:49:24 GMT

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@npub1ysu…2jyl crime.

2024-09-06 20:41:39 GMT

ed is the standard Unix text editor.

2024-09-04 15:24:24 GMT

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@npub1yej…v9gd well, yeah. The UI was relatively good even after the switch to the "webapp" implementation. People liked that and wanted to keep it.

2024-08-10 10:19:04 GMT

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@npub1c4s…aqv4 charge 12EUR :blobcatderpy:

2024-08-08 23:01:24 GMT

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@npub1yej…v9gd TIL about this "Mr Beast" person.
I don't think I like him. :blobcatderpy:

2024-08-01 08:50:20 GMT

Me: “Man I wish I remembered to buy bread.”
*sits in front of bread*
*minutes pass*
“Wait a second”

2024-07-20 06:40:31 GMT

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@npub1wah…xc8t his glasses are weird.

2024-07-18 16:51:37 GMT

Wait, Crunchy Roll dropped Evangelion? Who the heck drops Evangelion?

2024-07-15 08:06:09 GMT

:blobcatupsidedown_rev:

:blobcatupsidedown_rev: :blobcatupsidedown_rev:
oh hello
:blobcatupsidedown: :blobcatupsidedown_rev: sup?

2024-06-18 06:32:41 GMT

40原 on Pixiv draws pictures of his cat as a catgirl and this results in some of the most accurately feline catgirl behavior I've ever seen.
https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/554102
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2024-06-16 14:56:29 GMT

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@npub1ysu…2jyl @npub19zq…u4m5 ah, for a moment I was like "Nanawo Akari is a vtuber?"

2024-06-01 12:13:05 GMT

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@npub1650…ssvu :blobcat_daradara: yes

2024-06-01 12:01:16 GMT

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@npub1650…ssvu yup :blobwoozy:

2024-06-01 00:04:49 GMT

What do you do if it's June but your corporate logo already got a rainbow in it e.g. like the original (and superior) Apple logo

2024-05-31 14:19:15 GMT

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@npub1wah…xc8t what is it? :blobcatpeek:

2024-05-18 17:04:46 GMT

Turns out ADC (add with carry) will add with carry if the Carry flag is set. Who'd have thought?
:pcprompt: :blobcatgooglyshrug:

2024-05-11 19:08:40 GMT

You might be watching #Eurovision for the politics, but I'm watching it for the gay.
📺 :blobcatpopcorn:

2024-04-11 20:07:57 GMT

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@npub166z…nsd7 TIL of drum fish. :dopefish:

2024-04-11 05:30:56 GMT

That wonderful moment where you tell Valve support that you have to keep holding your Index VR cable a certain way to avoid getting audiovisual static and they reply that they do not support Linux.
:pcmastodon: :blobcatgoogly:

2024-04-09 13:27:04 GMT

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@npub109x…wvvl "kind of".

2024-04-09 13:23:49 GMT

Having NVMe's sit right under a heavily taxed beast like the GPU is such a bad idea.

2024-04-09 05:12:43 GMT

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@npub1ysu…2jyl @npub1qh0…xeda "baby :( "

2024-04-06 13:10:14 GMT

Seeing an IRC client implemented in the UEFI made me realize that we can bring back booting to ROM BASIC.

2024-04-04 15:04:06 GMT

We all know the downsides of the Cybertruck, let's look at the upsides:
- Efficient low-poly design for faster rendering both on and off the road.
- Centered instruments panel creates work for massage therapists.
- Handy built in slicing mechanism when camping or enacting yakuza punishment.
- Cool feature where the car can change its color when exposed to moisture, tho only once and always to rusty red/brown.
- Maximum anti-theft measures in that nobody will want to steal it.

2024-03-30 03:38:38 GMT

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@npub1ysu…2jyl wait until you hear about 'WiFi cables' :blobcattilt:

2024-03-30 03:32:24 GMT

Took me awhile to realize that when he says "WiFi bill" he means paying for his ISP account :blobcat_daradara:

2024-03-27 07:50:39 GMT

OVR Advanced Settings is switching from free to paid on 15/04/2024.
If you haven't added it to your Steam library yet now's the time before it changes even if you're not using PC #VR yet, It'll come handy later.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1009850?emclan=103582791466746981&emgid=4186732260747183901
#VirtualReality

2024-03-21 04:45:47 GMT

Not a fan of talent agencies referring to quitting or getting fired as "graduation". It's blurring things behind unrelated terminology.
Also nobody's getting a diploma.

2024-03-18 05:30:03 GMT

https://2600.network/
Public BBS access for dial-up users that lets you connect to telnet BBSes over a dial-up modem.
Wish I could dial into it but all the numbers are in the US.

2024-03-16 08:23:22 GMT

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@npub1jqe…zkxt I watch with Japanese voice and subtitles because I find English voice actors don't have the same level of subtle inflection and character personality as the Japanese voice actors, especially in older anime.

2024-03-12 14:17:10 GMT

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@npub1ysu…2jyl @npub1f8a…2j5j @npub1xp9…amfw I would buy this regardless of speed and just roam around an office complex in a snappy business suit and holding a cup of coffee. :blobcatgoogly2:

2024-03-12 14:12:28 GMT

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@npub12vu…vx60 @npub1mew…tau6 mine looks like:
- Bare Minimum
- Unrivalled Motivation
- Unrivalled Motivation towards a random niche subject that has nothing to do with what you need to get done but by god you will know everything about it and/or craft its most perfect manifestation for the next 14 hours until you suddenly run out of interest so better hope you're done by then

2024-03-08 03:27:39 GMT

Oh heck, Akira Toriyama. :blobcatpensive:
I was never really a Dragonball fan but I loved his work on Chrono Trigger.

2024-03-07 14:55:05 GMT

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@npub1elx…gtay ed is the standard Unix text editor.

2024-03-07 14:10:55 GMT

How to rebrand from cool to gone: Team17 edition.
https://poly.cybre.city/media/5b6f4ee24a15c90de91ef25f4013c5999ab13a2f667120adeac459418ba0b725.svg
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2024-03-03 14:22:34 GMT

I have to post this song every few years. The cryptocurrency bubble got replaced by the 'AI' bubble which will be replaced by the next bubble and so on and so on.
That's the tech sector, surfing from bubble to bubble.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I

2024-02-29 17:35:58 GMT

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@npub1q63…uucj the picture features 69 diskettes (nice) which totals to 99.36MB. :blobcatdisknom:

2024-02-28 13:33:50 GMT

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@npub1vwr…fnzd oh, that is definitely <un-good>.

2024-02-28 13:11:06 GMT

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@npub1vwr…fnzd do eet :3
Also, now I want to too and I actually have red, white and black filaments. :blobcatthonking:

2024-02-28 07:35:16 GMT

Still weirds me out that Windows looks like Gnome now.

2024-02-24 20:39:07 GMT

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@npub1wah…xc8t @npub1c4s…aqv4 I hope AI steals AI's job

2024-02-24 03:14:45 GMT

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@npub1ysu…2jyl need that Google Translate feature where they TTS words in Klingon at you.

2024-02-24 02:57:21 GMT

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@npub1ysu…2jyl HIja'.

2024-02-23 14:25:01 GMT

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@npub147l…vyrc companies will just copy Apple regardless of the rational behind the decisions. :blobcatgooglytrash: