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

i'm gonna try to log off for a while. everybody's talking about wrestling and not giving a shit about how upset i am about mass state genocide right now, so. have fucking fun

also if your proposed solution is "close the borders!" instead of, or without additional solutions to actually HELP US, i'm blocking you on the spot. go sit on a fucking pole

this is a hill i'm willing to survive on.

"but mavica just mute the word vaccine on twitter!" NOBODY uses the word vaccine on those kinds of posts. they either use "shot", which is way too broad a word to mute, or "super soldier serum" because they think they're cutesy, or on image captions, which are impossible to mute.

i'm tired. i'm so tired. every time one of you commemorates getting your vaccine in public social media it just reminds me that i, and my family, has an exponential higher chance to die from this shit no matter what precautions we take. please consider celebrating privately.

this issue makes me so fucking upset about the current global order of things that i don't care enough about the united states right now to write my country's name in the english spelling. i'm that petty.

brasil is just going to fuck up the whole world with the P1 strain if gringos don't start caring about us lmao so your vaccines are likely to be moot anyway if they don't work against that variant. anyway sorry but i'm really upset https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/01/brazil-covid-variant-p1-britain

you know what, here, i figured it out

anyway big fuckings if you're already vaccinated

saw a jokeful meme about how "pfizer gang" is gonna beef with the "moderna gang" and all i can think of is how it's the most first world bougie shit ever how unitedstatians have the *choice* between two vaccines while we're denied even the less effective third one

saw a jokeful meme about how "pfizer gang" is gonna beef with the "moderna gang" and all i can think of is how it's the most first world bougie shit ever how unitedstatians have the *choice* between two vaccines while we're denied even the less effective third one

bonus: since i put it back together, here's the Typestar 10-II in action. although the ink cartridges are no longer made, it works fine with readily-available fax paper rolls

if you have ideas on how else i could approach this other than several 4066 chips, please let me know

i'm really quite frustrated i couldn't go through with my plan to turn this into a serial printer to play with printing out ASCII art onto thermal fax paper, so my brain is just shutting down about it. hopefully i can just put this back together and enjoy it as a typewriter

oh: the ROM chip you see on the top side of the board in the OP: that's labelled as the "DICT. ROM" which i assume is just for the spellchecker dictionary. IIRC is writable since you can add words to the spellcheck, but that function isn't terribly interesting for me to dump it

by the way before someone corrects me yeah i know it's not exactly ink that's on those tapes, it's more like a layer of toner adhered to a plastic film tape, which then melts with the printing head, forming letters on the paper. i'm just using "ink" to work around character limit

however, this presents an interesting hack: those ink tape cartridges are not supposed to be reusable, but since so much ink is left on them, if you're careful enough you can take it apart and re-spool the tape anew. the print will be far from perfect, but it works