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

which wires are comfiest to nestle in? — high-power ones get nice and warm and if they're coiled just right you get free wireless charging https://retrospring.net/maple_syrup/a/106523777358791458

ohh my pkcell...

http://irc.efnet.org #cfairies come chat

god i missed mirc

i can't boot into safe mode because the laptop does not detect external keyboards until it's in the OS even if it's a PS/2 one

i say i have the only one because no amount of googling finds any other person with the same problem as me. no matter what i do, i just can't replace kernel32.dll with the newer one by blackwingcat

apparently i have the one version of windows 2000 online which locks kernel32.dll from being edited which means i can't install kernelex...

built-in sound is just a 7-pin header that tore off the board, i might be able to bodge a new connector. keyboard might be relatively accessible to replace, but going to need to import from outside my country...

well after a long day of work on the Compaq armada i managed to go from partial sound and partial keyboard to no doing and no keyboard, killing my new expensive toy in a record two whole days

definitely one of the most intimidating keyboards i've ever taken apart

for those interested in the engineering behind the selectric: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRCNenhcvpw

follow up on the printer question, dot matrix or one of those IBM ball thingies I've entirely blanked on the name of? -sam — i dunno if they have a specific name but i think you mean the typing element of an IBM selectric! the engineering for the se… https://retrospring.net/maple_syrup/a/106518216225743015

i'm still hurting. i've been hurting for years. i still don't know how to make friends. i don't know how others do, and i envy those who can.

and trying to force myself to do those things, to put myself out there invading other people's spaces in order to try to befriend them, only ever hurt me. maybe there was a semblance or fake belonging there for a while, but it always crashed down like a house of cards

this is the only advice i was ever given when i cried out as a kid that i have no friends. i have to be less shy. i have to be less introverted, join conversations i wasn't invited to. my mom went as far as saying shy people don't go to heaven.

something that's slowly dawning on me is how i never realized that by following everybody's advice that i "should be less shy" or "less introverted" in order to finally make a single friend, how vulnerable it made me, and how constantly it's been hurting me over the years

superliminal's dark levels worked really well for that. i want more like that

are there any creepy horror-like story-first fpses that are guaranteed to not have something chasing you? i want the atmosphere without the jumpscares

we are online and POSTIN' !!!