Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

What I mean by the volume set at "Marty McFly": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-njcAia6nY

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.

@troubleMoney Mostly the same, thanks to Navy training with sound-powered phones. I was taught to say "silence on the line" for the first example, and to spell a dash as "tack" (same as the sailing maneuver term).

Don't forget to do laundry and dishes. Stack the socks and fold the plates.

@cordula I use Tusky via F-Droid, but Tusky is in the Play Store as well.

Softing Microfuck is going back to the bad old days and then some. If you try to install Chrome, Firefox, Opera, or just about any other Web browser on Windows 10 insider, Windows itself will behave like malware, blocking it & tricking you into staying with Microsoft Edge. Given their history, especially using malware to push Windows 10 unwanted to Windows 7 & 8.1 computers in '15-'16, this probably /will/ go out to you next month.
https://www.ghacks.net/2018/09/12/microsoft-intercepting-firefox-chrome-installation-on-windows-10/

@troubleMoney And that's just when it's new. When the battery degrades to where it can't hold a charge between morning & evening commutes, good luck getting it replaced. :3

BTW, both are Matsushita EME-278TY drives, which Toshiba used in the T4500, T4600, T4700, & T4800 series of laptops.

I gave the belt another 10 minutes in a bath of boiling water, and it's just not going to shrink any more. It's done.

I got the other floppy drive, and the belt actually broke at the motor spindle. I guess I did too much "come on please just work" last time I used it. I taped it back together, but only so I can size possible replacements; there's no way it'll ever work again in any belt-driven system, let alone an older floppy drive.

That looks about as good as I can get it.

@Fireflufferz Just CW it because yiff-life keeping on federating is a great thing. :3

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.

@Phorm This picture is aging exceptionally well. Sharing it again is just a chance to fave it again. :3

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.

Back to cleaning the Timex Sinclair 1000 case so I can install the new keyboard: I gave up on Magic Eraser. I'm making much more progress with some Fast Orange and a cheap toothbrush.

@tonyasong Four movies celebrating tiny yellow minions of evil as a bag of comic relief.

Holy crap, boiling the belt for 10 minutes almost worked! I had a tiny bit of trouble getting the belt back around the disk spindle & guide pulley, but it wasn't quite as much trouble as it should've been. It's just barely too slack for the motor spindle to grip while a disk is in the drive.