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I got a Compaq Deskpro ENS/P600 (the EN SFF [for "Slim Form Factor"] series) without a hard drive and neglected in a very dusty business environment.

I gambled on a small SSD and a SATA to desktop IDE adapter, cleaned everything inside and out, and installed the SSD. The Windows 98SE install CD recognized it.

I had to spend an entire evening locating the relevant Softpaq files (only four out of a few dozen thousand with cryptic names).

Klingons speak in angry unix commands, standing on the bridge yelling shit like "Grep ls awk chmod!"

@maddy Parts People has been my go-to vendor for Dell laptop parts for years.

@earthshine You'd think the butthole icons would be a strong indicator of its quality.

"i mean it was legit, MS copilot is in every MS app"

"shit is legit too, it's in every butthole, but you don't see me playing with it"

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re: Idea for a ridiculous, yet basic, TGTF porn story 

@Phorm Three genies roll up to their mutual fourth, unaware of who they were, in a lamp-shaped impossible car: "Get in, loser, we're going wishing."

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP

it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form

the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows

GLAAD has a good writeup on it here:

glaad.org/fcc

TELL ‘EM NO

direct link to comment form:
fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express?p

@atax1a It doesn't support sparse files: Those waffles have holes and are still full size.

Why am I only just now finding out a weasel rode a woodpecker. This should be a much bigger part of my life.

Weasel Rides Woodpecker in Viral Photo

nationalgeographic.com/animals

shout out to when zhey put tram tracks in grass so zhe trams have a little field to pootle about in

My advice:
- be kind
- be weird
- be helpful
- be weirder still
- be creative
- be the weirdest of all

this isn’t something I made up. this is how leaded gasoline was approved for sale to the public. here’s a Wikipedia hole I recommend falling down:

- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A (pay special attention to the Kehoe Rule, you’ve seen it recently)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraeth
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_M. (the inventor of leaded gasoline, who was poisoned by it multiple times before the conference on its safety)

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