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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Periodic reminder: Make backups, check that your backups are actually what you think they are, and test your backups.

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For the first time in what feels like forever, or at least since HP brought Compaq all those years ago, I found an HP laptop that did NOT need me to remove, buy, and replace the rubber foot strips in order to take it apart! An HP Laptop 15-fc0037.

The bad news? It came to me because its SSD (M.2 NVMe) died so suddenly and so completely, out of warranty, that the firmware diagnostics said nothing was installed.

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@mavica_again The amazing uses of

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

i made a new Amiga power supply with a meanwell RT-50B :))))

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toto

RE: mastodon.online/@mwichary/1169

Friends don’t let friends install Chrome.

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This Is My Glasgow

Every now and then on my wanders around Glasgow, I come across one of these upside down T-shaped keyholes on the door of a Victorian building. It's for an Odell Night Latch Key, of the type shown on the right.

Cont./

#glasgow #odelllatchkey #doorfuriture #keys #locks

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Nanoraptor

1960s: the computer when programmed correctly can perform trillions of operations without a single mistake:

Pentium fdiv bug era: in some rare cases excel may let a bug in the CPU slip past.

LLM era: we rolled 6x10E9 dice and days have 37 hours, finger count is random, your files were deleted lol.

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

ai genned posters are like the flora and fauna that evolved to appear poisonous to be avoided

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alex :disabled_knife:

Inktober 2022 Day 9: Nest
#Inktober #Drawtober #MastoArt
"Entrada Verdadeira"

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The Orange Theme

@dan UÉ?

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Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]

Today Excel bugged me again to rate it, and when I tried it told me I was ineligible to submit a review.

Once again I am asking for all technology to be cast into the sea immediately or sooner.

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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)

we removed the slop that microslop inexplicably added to comic chat because we are part of the fuck off ai code movement? github.com/theAlexes/comic-cha

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VeselijLis

Xenia the Linux Fox 🦊 :ablobfoxbongo:

Finally finished this commission!!!

#furry #furryart #art #Xenia #xenialinuxfox #fox #furryfox

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:privTri: Volpeon :areonNSmol:
Thirmsty foxxos
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Pandora Hex
fun fact: both Redox OS and Haiku OS explicitly ban llm contributions
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Uncle Duke

“Fuck this, I quit.”
“Wait Stan, you can’t just-“
“Later, losers!”

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Kroc Camen

It's 2026 -- DOES YOUR HARDWARE ACCELERATED WINDOW MANAGER CAST SHADOWS ACCURATELY?? 1996 for comparison.

#psion #wayland #linux #retrocomputing

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The Iconolog

MAN06B.ICO - Animate, Human

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I just realized it's been over a decade since I last answered a tech support phone call about dial-up Internet problems.

Every time it rained, whole communities would be either unable to get above 14.4 Kbps or dial in at all until the telco lines and boxes dried. Many of those support calls came over phone lines that hummed and crackled as loud as the callers' voices. More than once the interference was so bad I had to fall back to radio procedure in order to give support.

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Julian Oliver

A great article on Microsoft's shady GDID, a device fingerprint snuck into Windows 11 that can and has already been used to track with precision, activity reports sent back to the mothership indefinitely.

windowslatest.com/2026/07/10/y

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