Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

#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.

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: