Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

here to mastodon, not here to the instance i'm on.

someone brought archillect here.

it's a bot whose owner can't be arsed to make it source so much as the art/photo theft blog it scrapes from, & the quarter-assed "solution" they endorse is a reply bot that gets sources wrong so often i've never seen it get one right.

archillect's popularity & eternally dickheaded response to scraping, which the bot's owners will monetize if they haven't started already, is why i committed to boosting only sourcing image bots.

BTW, the only reason my repair toots are CW'd is because they're each running pretty long.

I just found the strangest advice: Boil the belt in water for about 10 minutes. I have no idea if it'll work, and the one who suggested it never elaborated.

http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?47700-T4600C-laptop-floppy-drive-repair

Well, I have a drive of unknown condition with the belt out, a drive that was known working 17 years ago save for a belt now gone slack (but not removed), and an unknown-condition drive on the way. Worst that happens is a belt I already measured breaks apart from really bad advice.

Reading online and talking to the indy Radio Shack folks, I'm told I can probably get away with using a rubber band as a temporary replacement belt. I'm sure I can, and now that I know how to dig the floppy drive out, it's something that I could try, but the fewer times I disassemble the laptop all the way from the top shell down to the bottom, the better.

Also, things are starting to look up regarding the mere existence of replacement floppy drive belts.

And so many of the responses to that Tor Browser & NoScript bypass are doing nothing but arguing semantics over whether it should be called a zeroday or not. #DontReadTheComments

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Does anyone else get voice mails from phone numbers without corresponding phone calls? I do, and they're always spam.

A bulging CR-2032 button battery. That's a first for me.

Yes, it was supposed to be a BR-2325 button battery instead, but the previous owner either didn't know or didn't care. I found out while removing a MicroBiotics M501-s RAM & Clock Expansion out of my Amiga 500.

People are making new games for computers 30-40 years old, and that makes me so incredibly happy. https://youtu.be/FLgYkRLsWqY

BTW, that line after the syntax error message isn't one I typed in again. It printed the line & put the cursor at the beginning so I could edit it.

Also, I miss messy full-screen program editors like that. Press Enter, the line your cursor's on is executed. If the line starts with a number, it's inserted in your program, automatically sorted numerically, replacing the same-numbered line if it already exists.

It's amazing what plugging in a compatible keyboard can accomplish. Now I can clean the floppy drive, get boot disks, & weigh HDD options.

Welcome to IBM PC-XT (5160) Cassette Basic in ROM, required for the earliest PC-DOS BasicA even though the cassette port & header pad both ceased to exist after the 5150.

Selfcare LB: I so need to do that.