Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

*hacker voice*: "I'm out."

My home Internet connection is so bad, it took 584 and a half billion years just to update Debian's repo. :V

I feel like none of you would believe me if I didn't show you.

The Windows 11 OOBE hocks Microsoft 365 trialware to a captive audience. It's "free," but you have to cough up a credit card and $100+tax/year if you fall for it.

At the time, #Unix time was not the Unix time we know today. It was 60ths of a second since 1971-01-01, just 307 days prior, and which would roll over 521 days later, about 1973-04-08.

The epoch had been reset at least once before, given its origin in 1969, and it would be reset and still use 60ths at least once more before it was finally reset to 1970 and standardized to the whole-seconds we know today.

Okay, I'm impressed with the level of care HP put into its instructions, paltry as they are. It came with a wireless keyboard/mouse combo, and this is what they did for the dongle.

OH MY GOODNESS!!!!!

(buried in a corner of the leaflet, but still...)

8D

Power-user dicks when asked how to do a simple task: "RTFM!"

TFM:

My wall calendar knows what's up.

Happy 20th anniversary to #Windows XP and almost 20th to this iconic #WindowsXP installation photo! #WinXP (It was yesterday, but...)

e621 is leaking out into the real world: https://screenshotsofdespair.tumblr.com/post/662330411317411840

The death of computer manuals strikes again. This leaflet, an actual literal leaflet, is the only other thing inside the box. What's the most important thing it DOESN'T tell you how to do?

Feature request standard in Web 1.0 but impossible to implement in Web 2.0 thanks to infinite scrolling & friends: Make the "Back" button show me the thing you just showed me a moment ago. https://xkcd.com/1309/

I think capitalism made us take a wrong turn when this is how a pack of just small towels is marketed.

#OTD 30 years ago, 17 September 1991, the open source #Linux kernel was released. #linux30 #linux2021 #computing #tech #history

BTW, #Xenia is the better mascot.

Xenia info: https://xenia-linux-site.glitch.me/

Image source (birdsite): https://twitter.com/Flying_Hyena/status/1385990310141075458

My Palm IIIx is 22 years old, and it's still going!

Why do I insist on browsing websites with JavaScript disabled? Why is an ad blocker not enough for me?

Getting redirected to this bullshit here *JUST* because I want to protect my PC from malvertising!

If you make your website do this, there's a special place in Hell for you.

Webmail apps are not desktop applications, and they should not try to behave like one. Every single one that tries fails horribly.

I have never in my life used a Webmail application as good as HoTMaiL was in 1997, before Microsoft bought it. Fuck all y'all for making any Web-based mail user interface more complicated than that.

This message brought to you by: HOW THE HOLY FUCK DO I SELECT MORE THAN ONE MESSAGE AT A TIME WHEN THE LIST DOES NOT HAVE A COLUMN OF CHECKBOXES!?

Someone suggested I had the heat too high, and my second attempt at a slightly lower setting seems to confirm it.

I tried making eggy in the basket for the first time, using wheat bread. It tastes fantastic, but I fear I came up short on presentation a bit. What do you think?

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.