I once had a hard drive of some particular vintage that wasn’t able to start. I did actually get it running with a hammer tap. Got the remains of data out and replaced the drive. It was nothing special, a Unix system drive with nothing that wasn’t on tape, but I just had to see if I could fix a hard drive with a hammer.

I also remember one admin who would often be seen walking between computer maintenance room and workshop wing with drives and a blacksmiths hammer labelled “format”.

Psions were pretty amazing. Can’t believe they ran a whole operating system like that on a couple of batteries. Iirc, turning on the LCD backlight doubled the idle power consumption. So the whole system was as heavy as a couple of LEDs.

NeXT is probably the pretty direct ancestor of osx dock. Only Apple turned it from good to bad by moving it to the bottom, where there is no space. And that only got worse as screens became wider, but not taller. And they made it overlap and obscure content and bounce around if you got near it making it extra obnoxious and hard to use.

Other docks existed even before, of course.

Stray is brilliant. It’s the most cat cat ever in a game.

I think I’ve seen robot vacuums that have done just that kind of quiet quit. Non robot ones, too, when I think of it.

Some robots could steal food from the refrigerator; some could spray strong perfumes; some could chat up the management then go fuck up a staff person’s work to make them look bad.

So, like a dog.

Seems I’m getting constant posts failed to load after a few pages of All. Worked well for a while. Hopefully gets better soon.

You could use some sort of caffeine as a workaround. I do since sleep locks don’t always work.

Nothing, mostly. And nothing. Unless there was hard wind or rain or an occasional bird. Loud birds can be a bit annoying to me these days.

Books are cool.

“Do not dangle the mouse by its cable or throw at co-workers.”

“All parts of the computer should fit together easily and without force. By all means do not use a hammer.”

Mitm a website and inject browser exploits? Scanning IP addresses they see downloading? A news article leaving out the vital parts is nothing new though m

Maybe they were just targeting with no actual action. Like they had their sights set on their cardboard tank.

People certainly try with Cyrillic. And kanji?

It’s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permission_culture - pay the protection money or the enforcers will come for you.

It’s Nvidia. That’s not going to change.

Protecting children has never been an intention or an outcome with these laws.

I think you’re missing a digit there.

We watched The Marvels. It’s one of the ones I didn’t care about enough to see before but got it from the library now.

It’s kind of bad, but watchable. Sort of pointless and everything is a little bit off somehow. Technical quality is great, of course.

What I didn’t expect is that they’ve sort of nodded at the early 80s Secret Wars era Captain Marvel and even made a bit of comment about the white outfit. Which reminded me that that’s actually one of the first marvel comics I ever read back then and that she was in it. Which was an interesting bit of personal reminiscence.

Weird. I’ve used 1000,2000,3000,4000 series without any issues ever.

Almost as if it was a blessed and cursed image at the same time.

Overkill is really the best kind of kill.