Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Welcome to Computer Fairies, where the ✨​sparkles✨​ are lively fairy dust, not lifeless AI slop.

I don't remember & can't find the source, but it was popular enough a humorous definition that it appeared in print in "Peter Norton's New Inside the PC" book, published in 2002, page 33.

There was once a computer expansion standard, popular in the '90s & featured mainly in laptops though used in some desktops as well, called PCMCIA.

PCMCIA is a computer acronym that, of course, stands for "People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms." :V

Someone needs to make & sell removable SSDs openly standardized as 3-inch (7-cm) square wafers, together with removable SSD receivers (internal & built-in on laptops and tablets!), that look & work just like floppy disks & drives from days gone by.

The convenience of USB thumbdrives, without the drawbacks of laptop dongles, tiny & easily lost media, & "Which one of these stupid things did I put the files on!?"-itis.

Pictured: 3-inch square wafers of the past as real-world disks & TV props.

When trying to open any File Explorer icons, the Windows 11 desktop crashed & restarted. The cause was the KB5095093 update from 2026-06-23.

On uninstall & reboot, Windows 11 reinstalled it & rebooted again. Softing Microfuck.

But just like that, File Explorer worked normally again. 1) W👒​ -but 2) ​

I just realized the USA's Internet infrastructure faces a dual significant threat this weekend. The USA's Independence Day holiday is right smack dab in the middle of one of the USA's largest furry fandom conventions, Anthrocon.

Ever have a day where you cant form any coherent thoughts except maybe by accident?