Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

e621 is leaking out into the real world: https://screenshotsofdespair.tumblr.com/post/662330411317411840

Give me that stupid & supremely campy '70s & '80s YA sci-fi. The aesthetic is beautiful.
The Tomorrow People
UFO Kidnapped
Captain Power
Photon
That last one still has me saying, "The light shines!," or, "Let the darkness grow!," when I wait for something to light up.

Way back in '13, I remarked: `sc` is an old-school spreadsheet for the #DayWithoutX, but there's no way to marshal data between sc and Excel without troubling data loss?

#TIL there's a better console spreadsheet, `teapot`, it's batch-mode scriptable for shellscripts, and it can at least marshal Office Overkill XML if you save them in Lotus 1-2-3's WK1 format instead of XLSX.
https://www.syntax-k.de/projekte/teapot/

TEMPEST hazard of the day: ordinary ethernet cables. https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/14/lantenna_ethernet_cable_rf_emissions/

@mavica_again Awesome! Soon speedy Amigue!

And now, the showstopper y'all saw coming: My customer has to make a Google account in order to do anything more than just turn it on.

How do I turn it off?

The death of computer manuals strikes again. This leaflet, an actual literal leaflet, is the only other thing inside the box. What's the most important thing it DOESN'T tell you how to do?

It's time once again for another out of body^W box experience as I set up a customer's new PC for them. Today's is, surprisingly, a Chromebook, and they're migrating to it from an old Windows laptop.

@mavica_again That title card is beautiful.

@quirk I'm afraid you have to reupload it. :<

Computer Fairies folks, it looks like I messed up.

I ran the sync twice, and I didn't ensure that the second time wouldn't delete anything. It looks like any of you who posted pictures or updated your av on Saturday night or Sunday morning lost them.

I'm sorry.

@quirk I think so. I think that's my fault, and I'm sorry.

No one thought the Earth was flat. The literate knew it's round & how big around (except for some conspiracy theorists relying on obvious unit conversion errors), and the uneducated never traveled far enough to know or care.

The dumbass mariner you celebrate wasn't even right about the size of the Earth. Columbus was wrong by the science and mathematics of the age, not just by modern science. That's a hell of an albatross around your holiday's neck.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyages_of_Christopher_Columbus#Diameter_of_Earth_and_travel_distance_estimates

Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day.

This is your annual reminder that the only thing Columbus discovered was new peoples for him, his crew, and his sponsors to extort, exploit, and enslave. It is a legacy very much worth remembering but not at all worth celebrating.