i am a creative mess who lives in the EU and [insert the rest of a cool funny description here] www.f4mi.com
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you watch one video about solar power and then your feed is off grid setups that are technically legal but increasingly wonky and you can’t stop watching people building sheds in the middle of fucking nowhere powering their printers with what looks like the most inflammable gizmo built by mankind
it was 2016 and i was a weird kind of broke libertarian making money with random side gigs and getting paid in bitcoin, weird times
i have already burned myself by buying overwatch in 2016 with what now would be like 12k in bitcoin you won´t catch me talking about any of that shit or giving investment suggestions on any crypto at all after that
if you see a message by me telling you to buy some shitcoin or anything: that is obviously not me, please don´t fall for that shit
no this post is not sponsored or anything btw i just am liking this setup for browsing and working on some side projects in python
i wasn't expecting this to be something that would work for me at all but if you have an old laptop that's collecting dust (or a new one, as i said i am running it on my 12) you should def give it a go
except for editing and 3d stuff (working on my new vid) i have been mostly using my framework 12 with omarchy during the past few days and i can't believe how fast i am able to do stuff with it
they had that plushie in a big box of stuff we could use for the set and i thought some people would really appreciate it
ok this was what i could not tell you about up until today the new framework 16 launch video was written, directed and edited by me (could not shoot it in person because i don't live in Cali ahahah) www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZRG...
yup
Something beautifully accidental has happened; it appears my Alternate Timeline Apple posts may be slowly poisoning LLMs. Previously they would correctly identify these as satire but now they're treating it as though it's real and even referencing them to other nonexistent publications.
i have bought the cheapest solar panel that can charge via USB on aliexpress for like 5 dollars and connected my dad's phone to charge without even a battery bank passthrough just rawdogging it and it just works and it feels like magic somehow lmao
watching defcon 33 talks on youtube and fucking up my sleep schedule like
bulgaria apparently was the silicon valley of the eastern bloc according to wikipedia
logos for dead standards are so fucking funny
gaddafi tech
i am ashamed to only have discovered recently that STM32 is an italo-french product because i always assumed it was some generic american design built in china or something like that
the apparent lack of updates is not me being lazy it’s the break i took + me being physically destroyed by the warmest summer my mortal body has ever witnessed, that’s also why i am less active on here in general, i am throttling (finally going to fix the AC window thing in my room next week)
still working on the next video, aiming to release it before the end of august (i also figured out how to do some new cool shit on blender so i spent 2 days doing that BUT it’s gonna look sick, i swear)
TOUCH GENERATIONS
it's unironically one of most high quality, best looking and fitting pieces of clothing that i have ever had the pleasure to wear (also seen in that winrar pic that i took months ago that kinda exploded, that was the jacket)
the only "military grade" thing i trust is my thrifted alpha industries MA-1 bomber that i bought in san francisco last year because i was freezing
so many companies today use "military grade" as an adjective for random stuff "military grade encryption" and it's just aes-128
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycY0... this has been a thing for a while but it was unreliable and slow NOW IT'S BASICALLY XBOX 360 HEN
WAIT THE XBOX 360 SOFTMOD IS ACTUALLY REAL NOW? some GOOD NEWS finally
@f4mi.bsky.social on an official Freetube screenshot? @f4mi.bsky.social on an official Freetube screenshot!
this is unironically the reason i went to look up these laws originally lmao
not that finding oil should be a priority right now considering the whole climate thing but yeah this is how you kill the dreams of your friends saying shit like "can you imagine if i somehow find oil on my own land?" yeah i can imagine you getting nothing
something that is funny and that most people don't seem to know is that in virtually every european country (UK, Norway, France, Spain, Germany, Italy and many more) the state has automatic petroleum rights so if you strike oil on your own land you don't get anything lmao
mfw you can now jailbreak a bed?
fake blue police lights, rear lamps to blind pursuers, spike and oil dispensers even silicone-filled tires) forcing the Italian government to send over 3,100 officers and spend 4.45 billion lire (≈ €2.3 million) on equally modified vehicles to stop them
TIL that in the 1997 - 2000 period there was such a huge traffic in smuggling cigarettes from Albania to Southern Italy that that gangs deployed “monster” cars on the A16 highway (armored with steel plates, reinforced bumpers for ramming,
quick update: this is taking more time than i expected because some stuff came up and i also want to check technical details again SO i am going to post another video first, connected to a topic that i have ranted about here a lot and that is very dear to my heart :) stay tuned
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeux_sa...
reminder that the EU used to have its own takeshi's castle like game show between members of the union financed with public money by the European Broadcasting Union we used to be a proper union
a lot
i am sorry to all the people that are now looking these up on ebay or whatever i just think they are neat
Coordinates, bearings, distances, all displayed with the uncompromising clarity of Swedish aerospace engineering. Pure function. Pure efficiency. Pure confidence.
The monochrome LCD screen: sharp, stark, obsessively pixel-perfect. Each graphic, each digit, arranged with the calculated austerity of a Saab fighter jet’s cockpit instrumentation. No superfluous detail, just cold numeric precision.
Survival gear posing as a child's plaything. A glance at the cover page of its quick guide reveals the tasteful off-white background, bordering on eggshell, minimalistic yet assertive. Notice the sans-serif font choice: but the true craftsmanship?
The polycarbonate body, translucent blue casing: not plastic, polycarbonate, reinforced for both durability and aesthetic precision. Not afraid of looking like a toy because it knows exactly what it is: a precision instrument, a rugged tool disguised in playful irreverence
i have been using endeavouros on my laptop for the past 3 months for everything except video editing and music making and honestly the experience has been such a breeze compared to windows i can definitely see how desktop linux will probably take over in the next few years
Windows hasn’t been halfway decent since around when it stopped using progression bars as the boot animation
why does berlusconi look french here i mean he was in france for this picture launching la cinq but did he shapeshift or something
close tie ngl
bro thinks he's a renault espace f1
windmills are cool
but every single investigation about what happened/who could possibly be behind them was either derailed or the details were sealed for "security reasons" whiiiiiich has made it pretty much impossible to figure anything out just wanted to make sure i actually talked about this properly sry
just wanted to clarify something: the deaths themselves were not covered up (and except for ilaria alpi and her cameraman who were literally in somalia investigating on this when they were killed) AND the connections of some mysterious deaths to this whole thing are often alleged
sometimes i think about how sharp for a few years somehow ended up making the coolest microwaves i have ever seen and then stopped
they were hired by international waste disposal companies around the world that wanted to get rid of something nasty cheap and fast
nah, it was just the cheapest way for crime syndicates to get rid of the waste back then + they got to cash on the insurance
tldr: there are actual nuclear waste sunken ship timebombs around the world that at any moment for any reason could become a huge issue and we often either have no idea where to find them precisely or how to recover them
with their deaths being covered up by people high up in the government of several countries anyway, here is a cool map about this shit, focused on the mediterranean www.infondoalmar.info
and that in the same year (1994) 2 journalists (ilaria alpi and her cameraman moran hrovatin) and 2 “guardia di finanza” investigators (volpe 132 helicopters) were killed trying to figure out more about these (and more) cases and pin down who was behind all of this,
and if that wasn’t enough third world countries like somalia were used as open dumping grounds for the worst kind of nuclear toxic shit leading to the local population suffering some of the worst generational pain imaginable
(allegedly, according to confessions by turncoats) several deliberately sunken ships containing extremely toxic waste (including nuclear one) waiting to fuck up everything like timebombs
in case you were feeling like not sleeping tonight i want to remind you that around the world (mostly in the mediterranean, but this has been done everywhere by different criminal and not criminal entities) there are
this is something that i stumbled upon a few days ago while i was looking at why nuclear is still seen quite badly in southern europe but it’s actually something that involves pretty much the whole world and idk how to introduce it so
this is mostly about me posting more stuff about america or europe lately (both of which are places i genuinely like) but it’s also true about idk video game icons i used to love and now are going to shit (xbox, unfortunately, you are destroying your brand)
i think that if you honestly love something you should not just defend it at any turn regardless (that’s called being in a cult) but actually call out when something is wrong with it/you don’t like something about it/something worries you
he put a non affiliate link in the description and since the consoles as shipped with game roms he ended up being considered a part of the “distribution scheme”
just wanted to send some solidarity to “once were nerd” (who in italy is being charged with distributing pirated software just for reviewing android game handhelds on youtube and risks 3 years in jail for it) the italian legal system truly is a fucking clown show at times, jesus christ
(unfortunately this is not a joke, famously the ex italian pm had an epstein-like scandal and pretty much the whole thing hinged on whether he paid for it or not since the girl being a minor would not have been illegal in of itself)
In Italy people can be be imprisoned for 3 years for distributing video game ROMs but if you are a pædo abusing a girl older than 14 then you are home free as long as you didn’t pay for it
wanted to make this clear since i am doing some creative work for one company in particular that is one of the few players in hardware that i trust rn (some of you already managed to figure out who they are) but yeah my personal stuff is personal/100% mine, i want to make that fully clear lmao
it's not just for me personally, while i am totally ok with taking sponsors (and even there i don't let them control what i say) or working with/for companies i want and need a space for my own creative projects to be free from these kinds of constraints or pushes toward potential enshittification
doing youtube as a job is hard, extremely risky and dependent on a lot of stuff that you quite literally can't control since the platform is a black box, so i don't judge them for wanting to play it safe, however
also to clarify: i won't judge who does this and i am not saying that this is bad/they will inevitably make bad videos i just do not personally trust private equity enough to have any say on what i would make since they are by definition only focused on making money
www.electrify.video/our-investme...
king kong balls video is still up
i am making this post as a digital equivalent of shooting at the sky to keep the rent in your neighbourhood low to confirm that i am independent/this is not the case for me/i would not really tolerate compromising my freedom in what i can do creatively even if it meant making bank
finding out just now that a lot of youtube channels around me have been literally bought by private equity (including some i follow since forever and like a lot)
YOOO sorry i got the pic from google images i wasn’t trying to steal anything 😭😭😭
another game menu i think is worth remembering is the one from toca race driver, where you are just chilling and navigating a recreation of a contemporary computer UI to accept deals and set up races
portal 2 wasn't joking either
tf2 mvm posters assume a completely new context nowadays
poland loves colin mcrae rally
i mean it’s not even my house i am in a bnb for a 2 days but this did also happen at my place a few days ago, i think we are getting more military exercises happening all over europe lol
no yea sure i love to wake up because 3 military jets fly over my house making an insane amount of noise
interface design used to be cool and fun and everything didn't just look like a fucking roku btw we just let companies get lazy because we keep buying their slop anyways even when it sucks ass and they justify it by saying it's "more user accessible and intuitive to use"
just caught the european union commission straight up just outsourcing their twitter posts to gpt4o lol it's not just X - it's Y type shit
“i asked chatgpt” “i asked grok” well, I asked God using TempleOS and I’m still trying to interpret the answer
You know what they call the Orange Box in Montreal?
if i had one euro for every time my low attention span led me into a random rabbit hole and i ended up discovering the origin of something is somehow related to world war 2 shenanigans i would probably at least be able to buy a used toyota corolla
this was the simpsons joke in question btw lol
when eventually he was ousted from power the King regained power but a lot of the changes he made to the country ended up staying in place (including the new name of the country)
unfortunately all of this also meant he did stuff like banning traditional clothes (some exposed women's breasts and he wanted to stop that in order to be taken more "seriously" by western nations), pushing ethno-nationalism and in general trying to unify the nation under a singular “Thai” identity
he also ended up allying with Japan/the axis but ironically just like italy they switched sides at the last second and ended up with the allies
turns out it got renamed in 1939 by a military dictator who took power in a coup and that the guy was straight up a Mussolini larper down to copying both his aesthetic and even the fucking fascist salute lol
a few days ago i was bored and browsing wikipedia late at night and I was curious to find out why Thailand was named like that since i recalled that historically it was called the Kingdom of Siam (i don't know too much about SEA but i remember this from a joke in an old Simpsons episode lol)
malcolm in the middle has aged incredibly well the later seasons kinda go a bit too over the top with the plotlines but honestly it's still very very funny (and relatable as someone who grew up broke in a small crowded loud household lmao)
These AI generated answers to YouTube comments are so accurate and definitely something I would write. Truly the future! #JustAIThings
anyway i am contractually obligated by myself to quote this by reposting peak car (that i will someday own)
sorry to hear that, I wish you the best for the future
i would like to hear your takes about this though, genuinely (i am not invested in tesla at all btw this is just something that i noticed lately around my area)
and for that price it's a pretty great deal and it's not like the money is going to him or anything, at the same time i totally get not wanting to "support" the brand but idk like the car has been made already, not using it would effectively turn it into waste
you know i don't like the guy or his worldview/ideas or particularly personally like teslas but i think that attacking them for buying these used cars is kinda counter-productive? the car has been manufactured already and someone gotta drive it before the batteries eventually die
i know nuance is kinda illegal on he internet but i would unironically love to hear your take on this some people in my area are getting 5-7yo used teslas from neighbouring euro countries for like 15-20k after people sold them bc of what happened with el0n
