Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

You're all good people, no matter what you think of yourselves.

I read your hurt & sadness, but I never know what to say because so often I can't read it until an eternity has passed after you write it. I feel like showing any acknowledgment without saying anything meaningful will be like poking an open wound.

I'll probably never meet you, but I still care about you. Your pain is valid. Choosing to share it is an act of bravery.

My silence is my failing, not yours.

Be sure to follow my sound cloud!

No, really. It's a cloud, it's making weird tooting sounds, and it's kind of creeping me out. Follow it and find out what it wants from me.

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6.22

Perfect!
Wait, that's not right.
We can count!

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2/286
2/386
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3.1
for Workgroups
95
98
Second Edition
Millennium Edition

Perf--!
Wait, that's still not right.
Let's start counting again!

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2000
XP
Vista
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10

Nailed it!
Yay!

I may have underestimated the pre-stretch circumference. I found someone who sells Matsushita FDD belts, giving the circumference as 18 cm, & for about $12 all told. Not bad if it's right, & I'll find out in just a few days.

But if that's right, then the 25 year old belt stretched out another 5 cm in the drive. That's a fantastic amount, but since I pulled them out so easily that they almost fell out on their own, it's also plausible.

TMW you find a typo in a toot that got more boosts & faves than any tweet you ever made on birdsite.

Please insert the disk labeled

Windows XP Professional CD-ROM

into Drive A:

* Press ENTER when ready.

Imagine being so unscrupulous a marketeer that a complaint letter about you survives for nearly 4,000 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-nasir

*groggily drags self zombie-like into work*
"Time to make the 'puters..."

I just realized that Sauron made an Internet of Rings.

That sahara sand/minsk color combo looks pretty nice, tbh.

When will we have pills ready to turn me into a cute catgirl?

The third drive came in, & it has the same bad belt problem. My last hope for a local source was a belt from a bargain bin, but it's both too big (218 mm) & too thick.

I have 3 Matsushita EME-278TY floppy disk drives, & all 3 have stretched or broken belts. I've never even *seen* a belt-driven 3.5" drive before this month.

Would anyone happen to have 3 thin spindle belts about 214-216 mm in circumference, 1-2 mm wide, and less than 1 mm thick, you could part with?