BASIC is a really nice language to just Get Something Done On The Computer Easy

i think more people should try BASIC dialects

creature who shows up at a lab like uhhh i'm here to be the study subject ??? 👉👈

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creature who low-key likes being perceived and analyzed (me)

@suricrasia yes!! everybody i talked to didn't get this, and that was even more alienating

@suricrasia in a sense i can really relate - the time frame of that 486 was while we were in a really tiny rural town, and by then i was already accostumed to busy urban places with everything at our reach. it was a really bad time for me but one that in retrospect it made me develop a lot of survival skills

@suricrasia oh man when i was younger without internet except sporadically at a computer lab i would download DOS abandonware onto floppy disks and bring them home

this was then Home of the Underdogs was a thriving source and while the main computer i had access to was a 486. weird anachronistic times

computers peaked when you could put linux in a pda and browse the web with konqueror embedded

neither desktops nor mobiles work as well as this anymore in 2025

genitalia 

when i finally get my neovagina installed if i don't get it called my bionic pussy i'm going to be disappointed

your trans followers do not want to see news of a new jack dorsey social network. they want to see this

stuck through the wall
and you're to blame
you ragdoll
a bad way

it's not perfect, some keys are not quite aligned and so are harder to press than they should be, but it's leagues ahead of trying to use it as a collection of loose parts on the bench

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For the Hot Gamers: I have a few of these Mini Game Fans for sale. You can keep cool AND be gaming!? It's VT369 hardware, 39 games built in, some originals and some standard NES ones. They're "basically new", have been tested, but the boxes have some damage. £7.50 each +shipping. DM me if interested

This is your permission to seek out someone whose work you admire and email them with “A collab idea?” ha

Also: It was so much fun to learn new old things. I never actually had any 1984–2004 Macs myself, ever, but in the process of writing I ended up using ResEdit, hacking some CDEVs, resurrecting some Mac OS 8.5 beta bits, and generally going deep on this platform I only admired from afar in Poland. (I even emulated Lisa on my machine for the first time!)

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@suricrasia too late. it has been crawled and archived and displayed for all to see in times square

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