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So my company has officially announced plans to cash out most of the operation I work for and I'm probably going to either get downsized out or wind up being the last one keeping the lights lit on a sinking ship, which I would very much rather not do.

Anyone looking for a multi skilled RF/electronics/IT technician whose entire industry was just pulled from under them and thrown down the grinder to sell for scrap? I would say broadcast engineer, but that's pretty much obsolete now.

it's astonishing how the only way to edit a midi file is to install a windows 95 virtual machine to run windows 95 midi editor software on and there are absolutely no solutions that work on 64bit windows

i'm the only true transgender woman in the internet because i have equal hatred for all of the programming languages, makig me purer than all of you

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the internet is a tool made with the express purpose of transgender women no-true-scotsmanning each other about programming languages allegiances and the type of socks you wear

flash was too easy to make functionality in so we needed to limit the scope of what runs on your phone so that you can only interact with things that are approved by The App Store (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughts)

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flash was too easy to fuck around in so we needed to raise the barrier of entry so that only big corporations could make eyecatching websites anymore

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maybe the thing i need is to whittle down the already anemic number of people i talk to. maybe this is why hermits are a thing. i understand now

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i'm going to go back to a windows 98 computer connected to the internet and whoever i cannot reach because of TLS1.2, good

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i'm not gonna say flash is the end all be all but to say "it's good that flash died and HTML5+JS reigns supreme now" is an incredibly bastard take

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it's so funny and not at all stressful how i'm mutuals with so many bootlickers for the current disrepair of computing

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"flash had to die so that the internet could move on" is such a funny clown take to me. you're actively rooting for enshittification

so i bought an Amstrad NC100 as broken on ebay for less than 20 pounds. i was going to use just the shell and repurpose the keyboard to make it into a modern cyberdeck. i bridged a blown fuse and it's working. now what?

hey it's been a few years since win3.11 can we maybe use a better folder picker than this?

downloading win98se iso (because i can't find any of my multiple copies) from winworldpc and setting up a p133 vm in pcem as you do on a sunday (fuck 86box)

paying 40 quid for something that would probably cost me 5 if i could walk up to the market stalls in shenzhen

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