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

It's the weekend, baby

It was a mistake to quit shipping computers and operating systems without even one hobbyist-oriented programming environment preinstalled & featured.

Even a dialect of BASIC, picking up where 8-bit ROM BASICs, GW-BASIC, and QBASIC left off, & much more discoverable & tinker-able than the WSH/VBScript buried deep in every version of Windows since 98, would've been an improvement.

At least then, explorers & would-be hobbyists would have options instantly more viable than the slop machine plague.

OK #Firefox users, this is a special request. I'm looking for someone with a high-end Raptor Lake machine that is experiencing instability in Firefox (or anything else for the matter). The best candidate is a CPU from the 13900* SKUs. K or not doesn't matter as long as it's one with the 8P+16E cores.

We have a potential workaround for one of the most common bugs of this CPU, but we need a broken machine to test it.

never fucking forgive them for what they've done to the computer

@selectric A 63-year-old coworker once asked me, staring pointedly with his arms crossed, "is this like, a 6-7 thing?"

And it took me a full minute staring back at him trying my best to hold my shit together that he was asking if what we were seeing was an off-by-one error.

i can no longer hear the phrase "six, seven" used as an off-the-cuff estimate. god fucking damn it

Look, banning trans women from sports is total bullshit, but at the very least you can see why hundreds of years of propaganda and misogyny in sports would make people assume trans women have an unfair advantage. It's bullshit of course, but at least I can follow that flawed logic.

But darts? Motherfucking darts? You're throwing objects weighing 12-32 g (depending on preference) at a board designed specifically to be penetrated by darts. Fucking children play this game.

If you ever needed proof this was never about protecting women, just think of how these nazis are banning trans women from darts.

DARTS.

Did you ever idly wonder why there aren't already a zillion vendors of compatible hardware modules for Framework laptops? Did just nobody bother?

TIL the reason is that Framework made sure their design patents didn't let anyone else make modules https://patents.google.com/patent/US20230015249A1/en?q=(Framework)&inventor=Nirav+Patel&oq=inventor:(Nirav+Patel)+Framework

talk loudly about freedom with just an extremely prominent point of absolute central control? I Cant Believe It's Not Fashtech(tm)

you ever think anyone who ever had $250 on hand go "ooh, I have enough money now to buy a vowel on Wheel of Fortune"?