Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

I can now add a 21st Century WinCE-powered machine (that does make me wince) to the list of computers my fix-it computer fairy wand has magically restored.

@Saxxon I'm kicking myself for not thinking of it first.

If you asked me when I was a kid what repairing computers would entail, scrubbing cases with Lava knock-off in order to install replacement keyboards would never have come to mind.

I'm cleaning the other, amazingly-hacked ZX-81 I got on eBay.

My bank can give me instructions to upgrade my credit card machine in a phone call or via text message. They can't send instructions to me in email, & they don't have a Web page with instructions.

What century is it?

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.