maple "mavica" syrup #6502 @mavica_again@computerfairi.es

realizing how i have so much better password management than most of my direct acquaintances who literally work in infosec simply by self-hosting a seafile share that holds a key-locked keepass2 database rather than paying for a service

re https://mastodon.social/@Viss/112288552815367223

@Erika that is sincerely personally upsetting to me

hear me out: pixels

well no idea how i did it (but i know i have a valid backup of that amiga drive, because it's recent and it runs on winuae) but looks like there's a newer fork of win32diskimager that can work with physical drives and not just drive letters https://github.com/dnobori/DN-Win32DiskImagerRenewal/releases

i could've sworn i used win32diskimager to back up my amiga cf card and now i can't get it to show that device at all because windows won't assign a letter to that drive but then how did i make the backup in the first place?

hey if anyone in the uk or who can ship cheaply to the uk has a panic playdate that they don't want anymore and want to sell for under retail price hmu

they should make a vibrator that sounds like a V12

h/t @Atatra

@lion HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🍰🎂🎁🎉🥳🥳🥂

@datarama ehh i dunno! i think commodore and the amiga software developers made plenty of mistakes, or at least neglect!

alright we're finally getting somewhere

@lion yeah exactly the fix is always "use a bunch of these additions that you should know about because you scour amiga-focused BBSes several hours a week" so all the knowledge on how to make a decent workbench is lost somewhere in the thousands of packages in aminet with nobody to tell me how to use them

if you ignore everything else that the amiga had going for it that was already completely squandered, if it had survived despite all of that, it's easy to see how the user friendliness of windows 95 would've absolutely blasted it out of the water

disclaimer: i love my amiga 600. i've spent far too much money refurbishing and upgrading it. i'll fight tooth and nail to say how it should've been a multimedia darling in its prime had commodore known how to market it proper

but holy shit is it hard to do anything other than simply run games on workbench. i am struggling so hard simply to customize the icons

is it really just this asinine or is it that knowledge has been lost to time? i'm having to scavenge answers from 2005 forum posts

firefox asking me if about:blank is relevant to me

discord just restarted in the middle of a call to give me an undismissable TOS window i need to agree to before being able to ever message anyone else in the platform again

@JordiGH i mean that that is the psychology that works on the people who it does work on