Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Voter registration deadlines are coming up rather quickly. If you think you're already registered to vote, double-check & make sure, because voter registration purges are actually happening.

If your response is, "If voting actually changed anything, they'd make it illegal," then everything every state has done since Shelby County v. Holder (gutting the VRA) should assure you: It does, & they are.

Or don't vote, young people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0e9guhV35o

A link for context helps. :/ https://github.com/Microsoft/MS-DOS

But I thought 640K was enough for anyone! :V

Seriously, the MS-DOS pre-2.1 sources being in a repo is pretty nice.

The service manual also told me to remove screws hidden by the DVD drive, with detailed illustrations, but without telling me to remove the DVD drive first.

I got this manual directly from HP themselves, and now I'm doubting its accuracy.

The removal of really tiny screws should not involve the use of really hefty pliers. Who designs these things?

@starseeker@snouts.online I recently used some peel-off labels, so I'm using the space freed up on the backing sheet.

HP hid screws underneath two of the Little Rubber Feet, and their service manual tells me to pry them off.

I am repairing a computer, and the service manual instructs me to basically destroy its LRF-compliant desktop interface.

@zac I'm out of ideas.

@zac Is bash installed? It's not the default in most BSDs, and if it is installed, it'll be /usr/local/bin/bash.

@zac @rechner I think his logic was that it maybe wasn't getting set properly or at all. The /home directory being a symlink shouldn't be an issue, especially since you *are* landing in your home directory on console login.

@zac Indirectly, perhaps. Assuming fish is your shell as given in /etc/passwd, I'd guess there's a relevant difference between the shell's login-time-only .profile script and its run-on-every-new-shell $ENV or .shrc script. (Or fish's equivalent scripts.)

@zac check your .login & .shrc files for cd weirdness? i don't remember that happening to me.

The AC in my server room seems to be working pretty well.

The early history of Windows file attributes, and why there is a gap between System and Directory: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180830-00/?p=99615

There's more CP/M legacy in Windows than you may realize.

LB: Rumor has it that, shortly after the worm Morris wrote unexpectedly raged across what was the Internet at the time as malware, not as the benevolent potentially bug-fixing worm he wanted, someone got root on Morris's system & changed his login name from rtm to rtfm.