Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

I saw a tweet lamenting the extremely high prices of some games for rare consoles, and I decided to look up the freebie game in box I picked up when I bought my used Genesis and Sega CD console: https://www.pricecharting.com/game/sega-cd/keio-flying-squadron

I nearly choked on my coffee.

It completely slipped my mind that today's the 25th anniversary of Microsoft Windows 95 in a box!

Most boxes of Windows 95 Upgrade came with a CD-ROM, but some came with 13 MF2HD floppy disks (these things: 💾 ).

More importantly, EVERY box came with an honest to goodness manual!

Please stop using JavaScript to reinvent CSS.

At the very least, if you've used enough CSS to change the style and color of a block of text, please go the extra baby step and give that block a decently contrasting background color in CSS as well.

I don't want to hear anyone say Internet help desk at a small ISP is a cushy job. Pictured: the effort this lnternet Fairy put in to giving the gift of Internet this morning.

Does anyone happen to know enough to explain this message?

VICE emulating a C64 and two 1581 drives, running GEOS 2.0 on Drive A (8) and geoWrite 2.1 on Drive B (9). I ran Configure on A & copied it to B.

I double-clicked on a geoWrite document on B and got this:

I live in a nation of idiots. :<

Hi, folks! I'm celebrating the unnamed American country holiday by partaking in a uniquely North American dish: a Navajo taco made by local Navajo folks.

and yayness!

thank you for the package locking feature, #freebsd. i mean that sincerely. with firefox locked against removal, i can at least keep working until this is sorted.

did someone at #freebsd mess up? why is this the only package search result for firefox now?

uh, #freebsd, what are you doing? why do you want to delete my favorite web browser during a package upgrade?

Masturbation boosts your immune system, helping you fight off infection and illness: https://bigthink.com/sex-relationships/health-benefits-of-masturbation?utm_source=notices_your_bulge&utm_medium=anal_tracking_implant&utm_content=owo_whats_this&utm_campaign=orgasmic_sharing

a good operating system is one i forget is even there. this is what greeted me when i logged into my windows toy today: an invasive reminder that the os is there & that my own pc isn't mine.

*migrates files including firefox profile from old pc to new pc*

*installs firefox*

firefox: "the old profile is for a different firefox"
me: "crap, that's right, they use esr"

*uninstalls firefox*

*installs firefox esr*

firefox esr: "this profile is too new"
me:

sometimes when searching for niche tech, you come across what can only be described as technological shitposts:

#inktober #inktober2019 day 3: bait. When you're fishing for starfish (starfishing?), what better bait can reach the stars where starfish live than a star balloon?

I think I can sustain two quick ballpoint drawings a day. #inktober #inktober2019 day 2: mindless. If you follow the news at all, read it at your pace, don't watch it at the TV's pace.

It's been so long since I drew anything on paper, & I'm way late. #inktober day 1: ring. My av in feline form has bells on the end of her tail, & I never showed any detail of how the band (ring) holds them on.

This is my home desktop, where I just finished making a much simpler signpost-like desktop icon theme, and I'm going to start my write-up with this.

Have I mentioned I like L-shaped furries recently? Anyway, this is my work desktop, and I'm finally, *finally*, going to start writing up how I made the fancy group of desktop icons and framing, and how I maintain it, this week.