Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

LB: Langoliers, skill level, "That wasn't a nightmare, *this* is a nightmare!"

Well, that's a new one... I left it alone for a while, then when I went back, it was doing this weird coloring thing. I started a game then took a photo:

Tilted Goldeneye carts aside, computers generally don't like it when parts of the memory map suddenly go missing.

I can see why the RAM pack is bolted on now. The case top standoffs look okayish, but the case bottom standoffs that are supposed to meet the motherboard & let the screws hold it on are completely missing, filed & sanded down to nothing. The motherboard is now so misaligned that the pack is actually suspended in the air, held on only by the edge connector & the weird support bracket. Any movement of the bracket makes an edge connector pin break contact.

I should look at the RF modulator in the nicer-looking one next.

But for the desperately modded one... Woohoo!

LB: weird coin.

The trouble with trying to keep a desk organized is that everything suddenly grows legs and wanders off.

@maple :3

*whew* After inspection and testing, I can't find anything new wrong. The motherboard screws aren't original, and one of them just dug into the plastic standoff wrong.

TFW you hear an unsettling *crunch* after you line up all the motherboard's mounting holes and start turning the first screw in.

@maple Is that a Genesis motherboard?

@softgoat Broken for me as well. I guess we have to wait for a new version. (2018.05.09 is the latest in my repo.)

After so much Star Trek, Star Wars, Babylon 5, Buck Rogers, & who remembers what else, when I think of starships, I still think of these real-world proposals shown in Carl Sagan's Cosmos.

@tahajin I'd protest that I'm not into droning, but I have SomaFM's Drone Zone playing in the office.