Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

@monorail in addition to all the other great replies, it makes playing lego with sockets easier, especially if you want to do soldered-to-socketed ic repairs later on.

i decided to try my hand at strawberry jam* this year. my entry will be a twine game, and it's giving me a renewed appreciation for the effort that goes into writing good furry smut.

* https://itch.io/jam/strawberry-jam-4

@auravulpes to be fair, $1.97 for that hangar of hangers is a really great price.

did you know it's possible for a PC's hard disk to have a capacity of zero bytes? :3 ... :<

today's #techsupport patient: "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device"

NASA brings Voyager 2 fully back online, 11.5 billion miles from Earth:
https://www.inverse.com/science/nasa-brings-voyager-2-fully-back-online-11.5-billion-miles-from-earth

hacking over a connection with a ping latency of 122,400,000 ms.

@Lyude i'm so distrustful of youtube ads that i spent five minutes staring at it and wondering what it wanted me to install.

@quirk i force myself to never drink coffee after 12 for exactly this reason.

@quirk same.

i confess it took me a while to figure out why i couldn't mount the windows drives in linux after shutting down windows but could after rebooting windows & letting grub choose linux instead.

@troubleMoney @mavica 🎵
row, row, row your bot
down the data streams,
merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
simulated dreams
⛵

i don't think it's related, but an almost-coincidentally timed incident of microsoft being microsoft was just brought to my attention: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/05/windows_10_binged/

@Russwilde@mastodon.social good find. it's possible, but the timing between microsoft's bing-up and my customer's experience was a bit off, and search results at the time said to try restarting 2 or 3 services or just rebooting first.