Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

I have an old 286 with both FDD sizes I needed to clean up anyway. The HDD was already formatted & empty, so I installed DOS on it (verifying my DSHD floppies work), & I'll bring in a bunch of DSDDs to make one bootable & sneakernet the installed OS over.

Aw, crap, these are DSHD disks, and my PC's only drive is DSDD.

My sandwich of 5.25" MS-DOS floppy disks order came with a free side of 512 MB RAM stick because MS & eBay require all OEM software to be distributed with hardware. All it's missing is a bottle of Jolt.

@maple Yep, it's down again.

@maple A sparkly fairy wand or star wand, like one of these http://clipart-library.com/clipart/1453430.htm

@maple boing!

@maple Good mewrning. 🐱

Cursed image? Blessed image?

I have a 1.6 GHz desktop computer made in 2017 that takes longer to pass POST than the 4.7 MHz desktop computer made in 1981 that it's a long-descended clone of. I don't know where we went wrong.

@makyo Gxi diras al mi ke "snepo" ne estas vorto.

@makyo Ni sxangxu tion!

Spell check & grammar check can't catch every error journalists make.

"It appears that Liu may have gotten hold of the hotel chain's data when a developer accidentally uploaded part of its database on GitHub." https://www.zdnet.com/article/chinese-police-arrest-hacker-who-sold-data-of-millions-of-hotel-guests-on-the-dark-web/

@pixl@snouts.online I misread sims as sins, & IDK how bad I should feel for misreading it.

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.