Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

You, pleading through endless tears: "You can't just point at everything and call it some kind of a dongle!"

Me, pointing at a USB flash drive: "File dongle."

You, pleading through endless tears: "You can't just point at everything and call it some kind of a dongle!"

Me, pointing at a power strip: "Electricity dongle."

Organizing cassette software in WAV files so I can load programs on stock 1981 computers from stock 2018 smartphones. Actually using them feels like using a magic fairy wand, but don't unplug the cord or you'll let out all the magic screeches.

Now I'm troubleshooting a laptop keyboard. Among the unresponsive keys: the one that gives BIOS settings access during POST.

Back to repairing the HP laptop. How worried should I be that a replacement CPU has used thermal paste on it that was never cleaned off? It's an AMD.

That SuperCPU I stumbled across sold for $2,524, more than 12 times its original retail price. That's absurd.

$ find $HOME -mtime -1w -size +100M -ls
983935 732401 -rw------- 1 arielmt arielmt 1015803904 Sep 26 19:40 /home/arielmt/firefox.core.onegig
954267 172089 -rw------- 1 arielmt arielmt 311705600 Sep 28 11:56 /home/arielmt/firefox.core
$

I forgot that the Apple Lisa Office System did this, too, in a much more flexible way. You have to copy the blank template icon to a new file icon, rename & move the icon to where you want it to live, & *then* you can open it to start editing the document.

I'd boost the whole thread if it wasn't bad etiquette.