Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

@pettancow Both, but especially the Scotch-taped Amy Squirrel; and you're right.

Put a giant black panel or posterboard in your lap while sitting in front of it, or rig one to hang from your neck or shoulders while standing in front of it, to minimize reflections.

Perk: If you can cover your face as well (& still see through it), it's a half decent privacy screen as well.

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

@azushark My favorites are the ones that promise to recover all the money lost in scams like this, that are literally just the same scam with different words.

I love the "horny people are X" toots @beth bot is doing.

@maxinered Is her apartment made of adobe, or is this a communal wifi?

@kyhwana A printer that prints new shinies? :3

It wouldn't have taken so long or been so worth it today if it wasn't my first laptop or one that runs Windows *without* Internet Explorer. (Yes, IE was actually optional back when I first got it.)

I'm excited to finish a PC repair that I started 16 1/2 years ago. I thought it would never happen.

@tahajin moderate on main in 2018

Have you ever been up all night tearing your house apart, looking for just one little thing that you know for certain you've hung on to for literally half your life? I can now say I have, unsuccessfully at that, & my body's going to pay for it tomorrow. (Oh crap, it *is* tomorrow!)

@anthracite One thing I learned is that "next best" in advertising winds up meaning "worst" every single time.

@colon_three My brain has the same stop code. Seriously, the omen that portents is usually one of a very busy day ahead. :/

Also, I learned the hard way that even though the 5150, XT, AT, & pre-PS/2 IBM clones all have physically compatible keyboard sockets (5-pin DIN, just like MIDI sockets), the 5150 & XT use an incompatible protocol, so AT-style keyboards won't work unless they have an XT-mode switch.