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After that big adventure with installing C&C on Windows 95 I decided to go back to a more familiar ground with the DOS version and oh my goodness.. that installation program.

Windows 95's was just a bog standard application setup.

The DOS version? Absolutely majestic.

:blobcatsurprised: :msdos:

selfies, eye contact, cat 

This cat is dangerously close to my nipple 🙀

ukpol, covid adj shitpost 

this but its that macintosh advert but the runner throws a hammer and sickle and when the screen explodes the sparks say 'fuck the tories' and then a title appears in condensed garamond but it's words to the red flag and the voiceover man sings the red flag also

food 

I don't know what's going on with me right now I just want to eat everything sweet and everything fat. I just ate jam with cheese, really good actually.

Remember how I said I was going to sprout some lentils to see what a lentil plant looks like? Behold my lentil children. #florespondence

Image alts: A fiery sunset sets ablaze a cloud-strewn sky, rooftops in the foreground and mountains with a rainbow in the distance

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Glanced out the window, then grabbed my phone and rushed outside because this (multiple toots)

Image alts: A fiery sunset sets ablaze a cloud-strewn sky, rooftops in the foreground and mountains with a rainbow in the distance

I hereby petition 'git rebase' to be renamed to 'git revase'

Can vase even be used as a verb? It should be!

so cis people come in about three variants:

-the ignorant type, who you have to teach that the circle peg doesnt go in the square hole, and they may or may not get mad about it
-the mkultra agent, who appears normal but have a trigger word (usually something related to gender) that will make them try to kill you
-the normal person, someone who hangs out with trans people

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G'night cuties! 💖

I really need to sleep... 💤

microsoft teams, rant, cursing, shouting 

Oh, and when I installed M$ Teams on Windows 10 it tried to coax me into converting my Local Windows 10 account to a Microsoft account with my WORK EMAIL connected to "MY ORGANIZATION" so that "MY ORGANIZATION" could "MANAGE MY SETTINGS". FUCK YOU M$! THIS IS MY PERSONAL COMPUTER! I'D RATHER NOT HAVE TO FUCKING BURN IT!

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microsoft teams, rant, cursing 

I fucking hate M$ Teams, especially the Linux client, I've spent a day trying to figure out a sound configuration that works and fucking nothing works! :bloboutage:

Works just fine in other applications on Linux or in M$ Teams on Windows 10. :blobugh:

I've got a problem with my (build-in) Bluetooth adapter in my computer that requires me to, every once in a while, shutdown my computer, flip the power switch on the power supply and wait a little bit :blobrollingeyes:

Sometimes I forget to turn it back on and so it's left unpowered for longer, then when I flip the switch again the surge is enough to trip a breaker and I have to reset it before trying again :blobfrowning: :blobunamused:

How to animate a rotating box using Python.

Stolen from birdsite.

there are only six kinds of names in tech:
a) normal phrase with superlative
b) "what if we called it wi-fi... because it's like sci-fi"
c) "what if we called it compact disc... because the disc is compact"
d) a cool word, not necessarily english
e) acronym that describes the concept
f) Software Relations Working Group Standard Task Force ACCC 12589 rev. 6

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