Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

It works! I should probably remove the RF modulator cover & see if that can be cleaned up, but it works.

The test keypresses were: P {Shift-P} 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 Q W E R T Y U I O P A S D F G H J K L {Space} {period} M N B V C X Z {Enter (now New Line)}

I also had a kaleidoscope program in a .wav file ready for testing. Android won't let you keep the headphone jack volume at "Marty McFly," but the Sinclair can't hear anything softer.

That looks about as good as I can get it.

A nearly clean surface & a toothbrush rendered filthy from scrubbing it. That's looking nice. :3 The surface where I'm scrubbing hard is getting scuffed up, but that's actually a good thing; the new keyboard's adhesive should grab better.

You can see my progress in the left corner. I got about 3x as much off in a few minutes with pumice soap than I did in several hours with Magic Eraser.

I'm serious about their scraping response.

"As a result she is very limited with the data returned since creator/work information is generally missing or hard to identify, therefore is not reliable and risky/problematic to share without manual control."
LOG
THE
PAGES
YOU
SCRAPED
FROM!

If nothing else, cite THAT with each image! It's not that hard. I follow a dozen bots meeting that bare minimum.

But Archillect seems intent on robbing attribution for cashable fame.

Ban it.

someone brought archillect here.

it's a bot whose owner can't be arsed to make it source so much as the art/photo theft blog it scrapes from, & the quarter-assed "solution" they endorse is a reply bot that gets sources wrong so often i've never seen it get one right.

archillect's popularity & eternally dickheaded response to scraping, which the bot's owners will monetize if they haven't started already, is why i committed to boosting only sourcing image bots.

A bulging CR-2032 button battery. That's a first for me.

Yes, it was supposed to be a BR-2325 button battery instead, but the previous owner either didn't know or didn't care. I found out while removing a MicroBiotics M501-s RAM & Clock Expansion out of my Amiga 500.

Welcome to IBM PC-XT (5160) Cassette Basic in ROM, required for the earliest PC-DOS BasicA even though the cassette port & header pad both ceased to exist after the 5150.

The most reliable computer I have today:

Almost.
?

And repaired! (I made it mine in 1998; don't judge.)

Adding picture captions in Tusky is a little less obvious than on your instance website but still easy. After picking the picture, tap on it & choose "Set caption."

Add captions for the sake of the fully sighted as well, not just the partially or fully impaired. It saves you from "what am I looking at" questions whose answers may be obvious only to you.

But I now have a hardware reference for a DIY keyboard, not just a PDF scan.

This both complicates things and explains why so few keys worked. Both ribbons were almost completely separated at the connector, & the bits still clinging on snapped right off while carefully lifting the board out. Bits of keyboard are still in both connectors.

It's so tiny that my 2007 netbook has a larger footprint.

Thank goodness for the Big Book of Amiga Hardware. I had to take my (secondhand) A500 apart to see if a RAM upgrade I was eyeing is compatible, but I found this weird little Kickstart switcher card I couldn't identify in the ROM socket instead. http://www.bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/product.aspx?id=669

Today is the 20th anniversary of Serial Experiments Lain.

...And it's official. GitHub sold out to Microsoft: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/06/04/microsoft-github-empowering-developers/

I'm still tinkering with with my desktop icon theme.

I decided I don't need a tall xload because I'd only need to know if the load average gets above 4.0 or 5.0, not necessarily how much above.

I also decided that a wider xcal would help me reread date info a lot quicker. (I just realized I'll have to widen it more for "September.")

Combine those together, & that let me move xclock closer to the corner, too.

(Wallpaper is the left part of "Chakats at the Onsen")

Swiped from https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/999616307241906176 on birdsite:

NPR has the best creative solution. (You can shortcut it by replacing "www" with "text" in the URL.) https://computerfairi.es/media/_7qtaotMWoqCRAl_vqU https://computerfairi.es/media/pgoIMpkj0wtCx3WaMEg