Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

@whitequark I didn't even know logging was a thing it could do. Thunderbird has always been the Cinderella stepchild of the Mozilla family.

Did you know that FreeBSD 14.2 runs very well on a Dell Inspiron 518 desktop PC?

Did you know that a Dell Inspiron 518 can put in 40 hours of power-on time a week for 17 years and counting?

Even running massive applications like LibreOffice and Firefox? (Firefox with NoScript and uBlock Origin, of course.)

It's bad enough that Windows 11 absolutely requires an Internet connection just to turn it on for the first time.

But now I've confirmed on two different brands (Lenovo and HP) that Windows 11 *CAN'T* connect to an ordinary Linksys router's WPA2-PSK wifi via the WPS button, even though it encourages the setup user to do precisely that. It tries, errors, and reverts to needing the key/passphrase.

The Commodore Plus/4, but it didn't reinvent peripheral interfaces, and its integrated software ROM was a dealer-swappable or user-swappable ROM instead.

Merry Beltane!

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