Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

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# Useful.
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fire:
@echo "Place the nearest Windows 7 PC in the fire pit."
@echo -n "Press [Enter] when ready to upgrade it to Windows 10. "
@read yn

I had to go to the Family Dollar for a few things. Two folks were chatting about how their relatives caught the coronavirus, & how so many of them died from it. I look, & NEITHER OF THEM ARE WEARING A MASK!

I'm here like NO SHER, SHITLOCK, I WONDER HOW THEY CAUGHT IT & DIED!

This hour-long video of random '80s CGI animations is a mesmerizing representation of my fever dreams. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xwLFRdewgE

I don't want to hear anyone say Internet help desk at a small ISP is a cushy job. Pictured: the effort this lnternet Fairy put in to giving the gift of Internet this morning.

Does anyone happen to know enough to explain this message?

VICE emulating a C64 and two 1581 drives, running GEOS 2.0 on Drive A (8) and geoWrite 2.1 on Drive B (9). I ran Configure on A & copied it to B.

I double-clicked on a geoWrite document on B and got this:

It's so incredibly awesome that so much of the Web depends on this cloud and flare that, when it breaks, my customers think it's their Internet connection or PC breaking and so call my help desk for a fix.

It's so awesome that the world's most important and frequently used websites all depend on a single service that wants us to think of a flare in a cloud when we mention its name.

There's no way that such a vitally important thread holding the entire modern spider's Web together could possibly break, causing catastrophic failure, no matter how intermittent, right? Right??

I live in a nation of idiots. :<

The scammer asked me what operating system I use, and of course I answered Unix.

He asked me to spell it, which I did using the format "<letter> as in <NATO phonetic alphabet word>," and he took offense to the word for I ("India"), telling me several times to use "Indigo" instead without letting me say anything.

The scammer wouldn't even let me correct myself for him before trying to end the call.
The unsolicited tech support scam call.
That apparently they wouldn't let him hang up himself.

I just got a call from a Windows tech support scammer. I barely had the energy to mess with them, and I told them I wasn't interested or using Windows, but rather than cut their losses and hang up, they insisted on wasting 6 minutes of their time on me anyway.

That time they wasted on me was time they weren't scamming anyone gullible enough to let them into their PC.