Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

@kaye It's all right. The Juicero post breaking containment again wasn't too much of a squeeze on my instance's hardware.

I started reinstalling the missing programs. IDK which one or how many I installed, but there are still some orphan shortcuts. At some point, the desktop icons quit blinking.

I think it's when I installed one that triggers UAC on launch that they all quit blinking.

Year of the Windows Desktop.

@JulieSqveakaroo
If it makes you happy, then the answer to the first part is yes. Regardless, the answer to the second part is an emphatic no.

Keep posting old art. :3

#baseball
I'm still hung up on how the 2025 #MLB #WorldSeries ended.

It's only the 3rd ever WS to end in a ground ball double play (2025, 1947, 1921).

Since 1943, it's the 1st WS to end on the swing of a bat no one knew was broken, & it might be the 1st WS *ever* to end on a broken bat. I'm having trouble finding evidence from 1942 back.

I've been reminded (and ran out of space to say had I remembered) that the NL's Yankees, a mediocre team full of fantastically expensive players, played a fantastically talented team full of injured players and still just barely won 3 of the 7 games on pure luck alone.

The #BlueJays were robbed of so many #MLB #WorldSeries winning opportunities by so improbably little that the decisive event was the compromised structural integrity of a #baseball bat.

They forced the #Dodgers to need all 7 games, forced them to need 11 extra innings on top of that, outscored them 34 runs to 26, out-batted them 75 hits to 53, out-fielded them 0 errors to 3, & exposed their lack of depth beyond their very few star players.

The worse of the two teams was crowned champions.

So many World Series-winning opportunities all missed by so improbably little, that the final, series-deciding one was the compromised structural integrity of a baseball bat.

The Blue Jays forced the series to need all seven games, forced two of them (3 and 7) to need extra innings, outscored the Dodgers 34 runs to 26, out-hit them 75-53, and out-fielded them 0 errors to 3.

The worse of the two teams won.

Fuck the NL's Yankees.

No programs were moved over, so whereas every other version of Windows would use generic icons for the program's desktop shortcuts, Windows 11 causes every icon on the desktop, in Windows Explorer windows, and in the PC Settings app, to cycle constantly between generic icons and their proper icons.

The only supported version of Windows is less ready for daily use than Windows Vista RC1.

After a reportedly successful migration, the Windows 11 desktop's icons are now blinking, cycling between generic icons and proper icons, like a VCR blinking 12:00.

Microsoft's answer was to delete %userprofile%\AppData\Local\IconCache.db (migrated over) & force-restart Windows Explorer. It worked. For a few seconds.

softing Microfuck.

@mavica_again I want to say "the CPU was sleeping on the job" is something that would've sounded more like a ridiculous excuse than a valid and normalized reason 30 years ago.