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

i need more places to hang out on IRC, the channels i'm in aren't too active, where are people hanging?

if you want to say hi i've been idling in #cfairies in irc.libera.chat for the past few days

mind you it's not particularly snappy but it's not exactly an exercise in patience either

mypal 74, which uses the quantum engine, is frighteningly usable on 20+ year old hardware

"noooo you can't browse the modern internet with anything less than four cores and eight gigabytes of ram!!!"

my humble compaq n610c with 4 tabs open including one of youtube playing music in the background: "haha Northwood core goes brrrrrrr"

i'm really cool actually

jsyk discord's #OnlineSafetyAct compliance is client-side only, so if like me you have play store updates disabled your mobile app predates the compliance and you can view nsfw channels on mobile but not on desktop

i think a lot about the scene in halt and catch fire where to convince a mom who doesn't understand the high phone bills and why her kid spends so much time on the computer to sign back up for mutiny he explains to her that the bbs is to him like church is to them

for how much of them were adware crap i'm sad all those quirky 3d screensavers are gone now

you can bypass it by just removing the word "Mozilla" from your user agent by the way, i just wish there was a way to automate that

5 years ago we would be criticizing anubis for being a hidden cryptominer, impressive that now we just put up with it

it's not that much more coherent or closer to finding a solution yet but i started a forum thread about this: https://forums.transbian.love/?page=thread&id=215

everything i want to do to myself costs more money than i can possibly hope to have and hearing other people getting to have the procedures just makes me jealous and bitter instead of happy for them

pov it's 2007

the problem i have with 2000s retro computing (surprise, it's mostly how the internet changed):

look up "junkbot" in 2005: you get a link to play junkbot

look up "junkbot" today: an entire page of just "remember junkbot?" without a single way to play it (inb4 flashpoint, yes i know, but it won't work on my xp pentium 4)

i know it's just how times moved on and i can't expect the internet to stay still, but... i'll try to elaborate my words better in a longer post

it worked for iphones with flappy bird installed on ebay

QRT https://aus.social/@dawnstar/114939410022569391

honey are you ok you're browsing https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/style-pixel-design and yearning for the fifth time this week