Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

You, pleading through endless tears: "You can't just point at everything and call it some kind of a dongle!"

Me, pointing at a power strip: "Electricity dongle."

@maple I'm using a Java app for ZX81 tapes that lets you do that. I don't recall if such things exist for other cassette-based storage formats, but you're right; if they don't, they should.

Organizing cassette software in WAV files so I can load programs on stock 1981 computers from stock 2018 smartphones. Actually using them feels like using a magic fairy wand, but don't unplug the cord or you'll let out all the magic screeches.

@troubleMoney It's even worse than that. Someone actually ripped it & uploaded it to YT, & I just finished scanning it. There are only three frames of actual elf bowling shown in the entire 82 minutes of movie, & the first was accidental by the antagonist.

Now I'm troubleshooting a laptop keyboard. Among the unresponsive keys: the one that gives BIOS settings access during POST.

@maple mov cx,friends
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@ellied Any points for getting the color to set something on fire before the color is recognized?

Back to repairing the HP laptop. How worried should I be that a replacement CPU has used thermal paste on it that was never cleaned off? It's an AMD.

That SuperCPU I stumbled across sold for $2,524, more than 12 times its original retail price. That's absurd.

@monorail 13

$ find $HOME -mtime -1w -size +100M -ls
983935 732401 -rw------- 1 arielmt arielmt 1015803904 Sep 26 19:40 /home/arielmt/firefox.core.onegig
954267 172089 -rw------- 1 arielmt arielmt 311705600 Sep 28 11:56 /home/arielmt/firefox.core
$

@maple I got that once, too, & IDR if it was because of curl or wget.