Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

also, the inspiration for my entry is a pangram shorter than the fox test.

i decided to try my hand at strawberry jam* this year. my entry will be a twine game, and it's giving me a renewed appreciation for the effort that goes into writing good furry smut.

* https://itch.io/jam/strawberry-jam-4

did you know it's possible for a PC's hard disk to have a capacity of zero bytes? :3 ... :<

today's #techsupport patient: "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device"

NASA brings Voyager 2 fully back online, 11.5 billion miles from Earth:
https://www.inverse.com/science/nasa-brings-voyager-2-fully-back-online-11.5-billion-miles-from-earth

hacking over a connection with a ping latency of 122,400,000 ms.

i don't think it's related, but an almost-coincidentally timed incident of microsoft being microsoft was just brought to my attention: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/02/05/windows_10_binged/

fast startup can be disabled, but manually rebooting once a week or so for decent daily use does the job, too.

there's no permanent solution for that because, since #windows 8, microsoft cheated to get decent startup and shutdown times: the fast startup feature.

when you tell windows to shut down, it goes into a hybrid sleep/hibernation state instead, & the next startup is basically a wake-up instead of a true kernel startup.

reboots don't do that. windows goes through a proper shut-down & actual startup.

go long enough without a proper reboot, & windows does strange things. this is one.

i have a customer who uses #windows 10, and they said they couldn't reach the internet anymore: all they got was a big black box. turns out, they actually use the taskbar search box to type web addresses, and the search results popup is what went blank. simple fix: reboot the pc.

tech is broken today. google maps is pinning some of my would-be customers 1,500 miles away, & no one can tweet on birdsite.

That first bit is frustrating, but that last bit is kinda relaxing. blessed silence.

*migrates files including firefox profile from old pc to new pc*

*installs firefox*

firefox: "the old profile is for a different firefox"
me: "crap, that's right, they use esr"

*uninstalls firefox*

*installs firefox esr*

firefox esr: "this profile is too new"
me: