Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

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I took the Arcade Classics Centipede box apart enough to see what's inside it. It looks like a nintendo-on-chip board with all the interface pads directly soldered to everything else.

I couldn't lift the plastic display bracket out without risking breaking the plastic frame, & I probably broke one of the frame's plastic screw threads putting it back together.

An RPi would be a tight fit, unless it's a 0 or 0W.

Not unusual: I just talked a customer through updating their computer.

Unusual: I talked them through doing it by opening a terminal window, running the command `sudo apt-get update`, & running the command `sudo apt-get upgrade`.

I'm quickly coming to understand why the dark magic arts of GNU Make, Automake, & Autoconf exist, even though what I'm compiling is markup-language code, not programming-language code. (I'm not using them or learning them, just coming to appreciate why they exist.)

What I wanted to do: Finish writing a Makefile & m4 macros for building a static website.

What I did instead: Threw away the Makefile, & wrote & debugged a shellscript doing part of the build process.

It took me most of the day to figure out that's the better way to tackle this thing anyway: Don't add a build step to the Makefile until it's actually working as intended from the shell.

It's illegal as hell, but employers are so desperate to keep every penny they do it anyway. Employers can't legally get a free hour of work out of you just because your workplace changed from one time zone to another.

Trivia: In the arcade version of Berzerk, if you leave a maze while any robots are left, the game taunts you with, "Chicken! Fight like a robot!" Do that enough times, & the game randomly replaces "intruder" & "humanoid" with "chicken" during a maze.