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Ariel Millennium Thornton

HP once made printers that didn't just last years, but lasted for huge chunks of an entire century.

My office's HP LaserJet 1100 printed its first page in 1998, printed at least two pages every day, and finally printed its last page this morning before breaking. It printed for 26 years straight.

Twenty six years.

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samir, jobless immigrant scum

It’s a trap. More code is not your friend, it’s your enemy.

Don’t add the dependency. Don’t generate 8000 lines of JavaScript. Write more CSS. Don’t accept the digital grey goo spewed out of tools such as Copilot.

Code is a liability. Anything that helps you make more, quickly, with no effort, is leading you down a very dark path.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

As the United States of America is neither a union of all the states in the Americas nor the only union of states in the Americas, and as such the demonym "American" robs the identities of two whole continents of nations and most of a third continent, I propose that the federal union currently bearing the name should instead recognize the heritage of its first emperor, adopting the name "Nortonian Empire," and recognizing its people with the demonym "Nortonian," effective 1859-09-17.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Ever since the ACME Detective Agency fell on hard times, Carmen Sandiego has had a hard time getting anyone to notice her.

Her latest stunt appears to be the theft of the entire 60 meter tall transmitter tower for WJLX, an AM radio station in Jasper, Alabama.

nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alaba

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Hourly Kitten

Source: flic.kr/p/bS3BsP
Credit: Lindsey Mead

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

does anyone in the uk need their retro computer serviced/fixed/restored. i need money and i don't have a work visa

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Bananaed from YouTube again because I steadfastly refuse to disable my Internet security software.

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levels checker

we're seeing hydration levels at about 30%

(30%) ■■■□□□□□□□

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leah & nybbles & bytes, oh my!

on retro gatekeeping 

i did all that shit - fucking around with tapes and floppies and microdrives (god help me), screens of varying clarity and quality and ability to display the full width of the PAL display field, completely incompatible peripheral sets and BASIC implementations, processors so slow that you could measure the number of 16 bit multiplies they could do a second in (low) 4 digits - back when i didn't have a choice.

you fucking bet i'm going to reach for an emulator and disk images these days! i would even if the prices of the actual hardware hadn't been vastly overinflated by the rich arseholes who insist that it only counts if it hurts, and the damn fools who listen to them

retro is a spirit, it's not a qualification

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

So far, my symptoms feel like a milder version of the "just a flu" I had in '19 that stole my sick leave, stole my voice, stole my sleep, stole my hair (a patch of it permanently), and very nearly stole my life. Very achy, but milder than that so far. Also, everything still smells exactly like it should and as strongly as it should.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Face masks don't do enough to stop you from catching bugs, but they were never designed to.

They're very effective in stopping you from *spreading* bugs. That's what they're designed to do. That's why you need to wear one when you're sick, you think you're sick, or you have to be out and about in an outbreak.

Don't give your microscopic bugs to friends. Wear a mask.

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

I have no idea whether I caught the cold, the flu, or the covid, but one of them has knocked me down.

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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]

video games were invented in 1975 by video kojima when he tried to make a movie and accidentally added buttons

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Psy Chuan :therian:

need to get me the number of this wizard

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Earthshine

Remember folks: 'The Cloud' is just someone else's computer.

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Jason Scott

Hey, your browser looks like it's functioning perfectly. Let's fix that.

textfiles.com/underconstructio

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MOVED vantablack@cyberpunk.lol

me when a really good post with no image description happens upon my timeline and i get to repost it with one

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LB source: en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?t

Truly a goddesslike achievement.

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annie rauwerda

Wikipedia editor "Asticky" edited Henry Kissinger's article at 8:46 ET and then changed her userpage to this (with the edit summary "lmao")

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Am I the only one who reads or hears "EVs" and imagines Evie riding an eevee, or an eevee riding on Evie?

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