Software fox on the internet

Not a single recognizable key or logo. Writing on the screen is gibberish. Floppy drive has no eject button or diagnostic light. Not a cable in sight. No mouse. No chairs. Ceiling lights don’t match up. Floor is lined with massive weirdly angled tiles that would look more at home on a bathroom wall.

The computer is a Sun SparcStation 1, 2, or 10. It doesn’t have a floppy eject button, it’s motorized like how Macs did it. The diagnostic light is subtle on the drive.

The terminal sitting on top of the computer itself is a Falco of some variety (probably not an F5000). The keyboard cable is running to the left. No mouse because it’s a terminal, and even if it weren’t, that isn’t a GUI so no need for a mouse.

Text on screen are dates/times/web addresses/ports etc.

No chairs? Probably because that’s a quick diagnostic terminal, not intended for people to stay at it for very long. Those are the exact same datacenter floor tiles I’ve seen at multiple locations in my career, they’re basically unchanged. And that lighting is a throwback with those little shiny grids, messing with the light in a vain attempt to make it directional.

I didn’t recognize any of the exact equipment here. Nor did I know any of those details about the gear. So I asked some friends! Doesn’t hurt to ask people in the community who are more experienced in some matters. And I say that as someone who cannot fucking stand AI generated images or whatever – AI stuff doesn’t belong on my blog (call me on it if you see any). But this passes fine.

In right of frame is a very recognizable Seagate Full-height drive crammed into an AT clone:

In the distance looks like a few IBM 3380 disk drives:

I'd put money that what is either or is related to an IBM 3090 system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3090

"1.44 MB of Sashimi"

I've got that Clik! Mobile Drive thing for copying CF/SmartMedia cards onto Clik! disks

And the USB one, which is amusing because it's just the PCMCIA drive plus an enclosure to talk to it.

And since I mentioned PCMCIA, I've of course got a couple PCMCIA Clik! drives.

I've also got the Iomega HipZip and the rave:mp, both Clik!/PocketZip based MP3 players.

You ARE A cryptid!

I've got the Caleb It! drive, which is floptical (technically so is that Zip Drive, and the LS120/LS240 drives that are too boring to post)

But yeah. Here's two 21mb floptical drives from iomega & insite.

The toddler doesn’t know Alexa is a name; as far as they’re concerned it’s a word that makes things happen. If the kid was saying “please play baby shark” it would mean literally the same thing to them because they don’t really understand language yet.

A gun that does not exist, cannot exist under the laws of physics and probably exists on some sort of meta level where it gets to hack the actual rulebook you play with.

It does exactly one point of damage. Each round. Every round. There are no defence against it. It has future-proofed itself to ensure that there will never BE any defences against it. It doesn't even count as an attack.

It will simply plink away at someone for one HP every turn and there's absolutely nothing they can do about it except try and kill the mech carrying it.

Oh yeah and it's heavily implied to be sentient.

The "This is not a gun" at the end is the chilling bit for me.