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are there any android apps that give you a persistent online collaborative drawing board that can stay in your home screen as a widget?

RT @LaserScheme@twitter.com

what would you put in an unconventional hamburger that you would still want to eat — anchovies, banana, pretzels retrospring.net/LaserScheme/a/

🐦🔗: twitter.com/LaserScheme/status

things we've already done:
- astroneer
- tower unite
- tabletop sim
- garry's mod
- vrchat
- stationeers
- emulators through parsec

activities get old really quick for us, which makes it difficult to have fun online having already tried all popular options...

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hey we're looking for chill online co-ops "non-games"/experiences so me and my long distance girlfriends can hang out together without much expectation or stakes to get frustrated at

we're in dire need of new things to do and everything seems old and boring at this point

don't have a commercial rust remover readily available so i whipped up a quick baking soda water paste and applied it liberally to both sides of the top plate. seems like most of the surface rust already brushed away anyway

bottom plate is rust-free thankfully

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it took all my strength but i managed to straighten the tabs & free the metal plates! and just in time as well, the rust was starting to get to the membrane, but thankfully nothing had been damaged yet

i got really lucky with this machine, it's in really serviceable condition!

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RT @Voodoo_Pork@twitter.com

Old video games ads used to be basically "my dumpy husband won't fuck me because he wants to constantly play Gort Gort for the Phillips CD-i"

🐦🔗: twitter.com/Voodoo_Pork/status

is anyone surprised though?

RT @tha_rami@twitter.com

Biden supports Israeli ethnic cleansing, the brutal and violent Israeli suppression of peaceful Palestinian protest including the use of stun grenades & tear gas in a holy mosque during Ramadan, and the murder by Israeli bullets and Israeli bombs of Palestinian children twitter.com/AFP/status/1392577

🐦🔗: twitter.com/tha_rami/status/13

ah i hoped i wasn't the only one who thought about it that way

RT @plsleaveamsg@twitter.com

“Nobody wants to work anymore.”

Nobody ever wanted to work at all. We wanted to be productive, be creative, be part of a community, be supported, be validated, and have the time and space to truly rest. No one actually wants to trade in hours of their life to “earn” necessities.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/plsleaveamsg/statu

RT @alienmelon@twitter.com

please care. please don't let it get worst. please stop empowering dangerous people with your negligence. twitter.com/alienmelon/status/

🐦🔗: twitter.com/alienmelon/status/

friend of mine came pick something up at my home and we greeted each other with a quick fistbump, think that was the most physical contact i've had outside of family in over a year

hey wanna see me make a lot of keyboard nerds mad?

the IBM Model M is a membrane keyboard

almost but not quite all clear. can't figure out how to remove from here the switch for the left shift, which has the retainers for the stabilizer bar, the retainers for the space stabilizers, and the caps lock LED. but this already gives me plenty of surface to clean

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the switches are pretty easy to take off by paw once you know where the tabs are

unfortunately (fortunately?) this reveals a lot more rust

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oh, the switches come off! accidentally pulled one along with a stubborn keycap, turns out they're held in place by plastic clips holding onto the metal plate

i was right about them being linear spring switches!

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this corner isn't so happy

those rubber domes are for the index up and down keys, thankfully they're working fine

i can try to clean up a bit from here but without access to inside the keyboard there's not much i can do about the rust

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