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i have confirmed this laptop belonged to a late British journalist who passed in 2005 and later used by his author widow who collaborated with him on multiple books

it's weird having the laptop of a person who has a Wikipedia page

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i'm torn between the data protection burn the whole thing down and format the drive or data archival preserve the files that are sufficiently anonymous

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so the ibook g3 i bought on ebay is mostly word documents

judging by the file names (i have chosen not to open any of them) it was owned by either a librarian, or a book editor, or a review writer. there are things like book of the year reviews from 2003 to 2006, interview transcripts, letters and personal documents. the person i bought it from was clearly aware of the documents in it as "opening a word document" is all the testing they did before selling

ebay is bamboozling me man yodel says it's like two towns over and not gonna be delivered until tomorrow

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i really gotta start a youtube channel so that people will send me rare things for free in the mail

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always seems to be the case that a rare really cool retro computer i want was only produced in the thousands of numbers and a white male youtuber has one of the only surviving ones

My mother in law found this when moving house and now it’s mine! It’s a Panasonic PenWriter, a typewriter that’s actually a pen plotter! Can’t wait to try it out, but I don’t have much hope for the pens still working #penplotter

android firefox nightly i'm begging you to let me paste images into a compose box that supports it

just got access to a switch and ring fit adventure for the first time today and it's nice that it's more encouraging and less body shaming but the workouts are way less gentle too

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has anybody modded Wii Fit/Wii Fit Plus to remove the body shaming in it yet? :boost_ok:

be nice to devs that make art games or experimental games. they’re making it possible so you can shout “go away mom i’m playing art” instead of “go away mom i’m playing games” when it’s time to clean your room.
you’re welcome.

after finally getting some decent flux and picking up the pieces i abandoned several months ago, i think i've finally managed to reflow all the broken solder gremlins that kept my visor eyemodule from working properly

@terinjokes i remember places calling avatars "profile picture" sure but i don't think i've come across anyone shortening it to "pfp" until the 2020s

Interestingly, two days before Oracle deleted my account and all servers associated with it, I publicly criticized Oracle's CEO in a viral post for promising dystopian AI surveillance technology to his investors.

mastodon.de/@ErikUden/11387936

What a weird coincidence.

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