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There's geoText, but there's no manual, & I can't figure out how to type vital ASCII characters like the vertical bar (U+007C), geoAssembler's bitwise-or operator.

geoText:
- ftp.pokefinder.org/index.php?s
- zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/ge

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people in cars (-) 

Please do not shop around for Internet service providers while driving. Operating heavy machinery at high speed is the absolute worst time to absorb new information and make purchasing decisions.

Don't call me until you're stopped and out of traffic!

Hang up and drive!

Cross-compiling would probably be better, but I don't want to. The quirks of that old great machine just make using it a joy, & emulators don't diminish it enough to matter.

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I'm back in the flow of learning the 64 & inside out, & reading code in geoWrite is such a pain. Text rendering is necessarily slow, but assembly is tall columns, the default margins/tabs cause frequent re-renderings, & the default font (BSW 9) is tall.

My first GEOS program is likely going to be a text editor. If I can't get geoWrite's format right, I can do pure ASCII & import it via Text Grabber with Generic II Form.

r/traa post, may contain sensitive content (without image description) 

ACAB - Assigned Cop at Birth redd.it/r99slm

tech (november foxtrot tangos) (-) 

Periodic reminder that if NFTs really were about the art and artists, then furry artists would be all over it and promoting the hell out of it, not loudly telling NFT bros what they and their tech can go do with themselves.

computer venting 

Has it joined a botnet, despite the only apps on it that I didn't personally vet being the unremovable factory-installed apps? Time to do the closest thing it has to a nuke and pave, I guess?

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computer venting 

IT'S STILL GOING AND SOAKING UP MY TESTING CONNECTION WITH NO NOTIFICATIONS ANYWHERE OF WHAT OR WHY
(Android, if anyone cares.)

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Remember, it's okay to turn off the news for a bit.

computer venting 

How do y'all do Internet site survey speed tests without upping automatic fuckdates spontaneously running in the background and corrupting every single test result?

If I could use a minimalist Unix or Linux tablet in the field, this wouldn't happen. But Windows, Mac, Android, or Eyephone, it's a stupidly inescapable case of our field computer playing russian roulette alone.

@porsupah By some sites, yeah. So far, dev.to is the most prominent one to ban Lynx that way.

Dear webdevs:

Please stop banning Lynx and Links from your websites as bots.

They are Web browsers, not bots.

Sincerely,

A webdev, programmer, & shellscript writer who needs to look stuff up online on the

P.S.

I shouldn't have to extend my laptop's boot time with a GUI & extend my wait time getting answers with a bloated Web browser. Trust me, not even SSD & NVMe drives make either of those tasks as fast as not having them installed at all.

i'm serious
former desky: fluffyscream
current desky: swiftpaw
current lappy: braveplumes
computer hostnames still available: lifetimes' worth

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Always do your best. Your best will change from day to day.

My home Internet connection is so bad, it took 584 and a half billion years just to update Debian's repo. :V

@anthracite Mine, too! May there be plenty of cake and fun! Happy birthday!

$ uptime
6:50AM up 50y 0:20, 1 user, load averages: aches, lines, sleepiness.
$ _

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