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

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

we're seeing hydration levels at about 30%

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's time to find out who my neighbors really are, as all the stores have cups and mugs wishing "happy holidays" and "season's greetings," but none or next to none wishing a "merry Christmas."

Henry Kissinger 

I will not celebrate the man's death.

Instead, I am mourning the lives of all the people he ruined, destroyed, and ended, and I will celebrate the end of his ability to remain unrepentant in his deeds.

I am sad he died, but I am glad the undeserved time he stole finally ran out.

Please, friends, don't use his grave as a dance floor. If you do, then wear gloves and clean your shoes, because your fellows are using his grave as a urinal.

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