maple "mavica" syrup [6502] @mavica_again@computerfairi.es

@root mood

@root yes! yeah same thoughts

it's why we never bothered with it much

we all had accounts on twitter but since i got banned the rest of us haven't really wanted to be there anymore

even pluralkit it doesn't occur to us to switch until later and "oh maybe that was someone else talking"

it's been 3 years and we still don't have a handle on the controls lmao

funny system feelings

maybe we need more accounts

@root s'ok

here's supplemental reading material

https://maple.pet/blog/why-am-i-a-robot
https://maple.pet/blog/fighting-otherkin-erasure-from-captchas

@root (what i'm saying is that the distinction isn't so much the issue as the wording)

@root while i do like to think that i am fun i am also, in fact, a computer, and i understand the distinction you're trying to make and it's coming across as just as hurtful as whenever i have to check "i am not a robot" to a captcha

@root ​ which one am i

@root "automated" was what twitter added and i still used it (set it as automated by the account of our system as a whole) (until i got perma suspended on twitter anyway)

@jeffgerstmann have you tried this one? 👆

tried out a new boy today

quite interesting, reminds me a lot of red bull but much sweeter and much cheaper

@lmorchard 🕯️​💜​

@jk yeah the retro parts market online is kinda wild right now asking silly prices

given the Compaq laptop i have that won't see anything larger than 16gb is a 1998 Pentium 2 yeah i think yours might be expecting even smaller drives

@jk in my experience early compaqs are notoriously bad at working with arbitrary hard drives, i have one that'll only work with a 16gb cf to ide adapter because it refuses to acknowledge anything bigger than that

plus there's the issue of some of them (at least their laptop lines) not having setup in bios so rather you need to boot off a setup floppy to change anything in the bios and the images are hard to find.. etc

anyway turns out the battery in the ipaq 214 isn't as dead as i thought it was and i got linux running on it and there's a version of pidgin in the angstrom repos and idk this is just dumb fun

i'm glad i was able to flee the toxic people in my life who spread misinformation about me and i take solace in knowing they are still seething about me living my best life today.

boy,

thoughts are bad today