marimo @a@asentientbot.ca
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Beautiful women texting me named Disk Not Ejected Properly
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very interesting that the cops who have never in their lives helped someone get their stolen bike back seem to know nothing about the steps bikers have to take to keep their bikes safe in the city
https://www.404media.co/nypd-bike-lock-chain-kryptonite-columbia-university-protests/
"fixed" (read: removed a capacitor and replaced the display) an 11" macbook air, used for a couple days, now every other laptop feels huge and cumbersome wtf
this is too old for meaningful work (4gb ram, haswell), but if i find an 8gb broadwell one...
was this the perfect form factor all along??
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Delta — the app that started it all — is available NOW in the App Store!
Yes, you read that right: our long-rejected game emulator has been approved by Apple themselves 🍎
If you live outside the EU, download now from the App Store — no DMA required https://apps.apple.com/app/delta-game-emulator/id1048524688
@eb i can't think of a definition of "sandwich" which includes subs while excluding hotdogs
😲 when the computer refers to me in the way i specifically configured it to
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Beware of geeks bearing gifts. When prison-tech companies started offering "free" tablets to America's vast army of prisoners, it set off alarm-bells for prison reform advocates - but not for the law-enforcement agencies that manage the great American carceral enterprise.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/02/captive-customers/#guillotine-watch
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@platkus @siracusa @brentsimmons @stroughtonsmith not sure if it'll work, but setting it in the specific app's domain (defaults write com.the.apps.CFBundleIdentifier) worth a try?
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alright it took the better part of my weekend but I finally back-ported Mastodon to iOS 4
ended up being a broken connection between an 8.6v line and this resistor connecting to a chip which (i think) makes some of the cpu voltages. the water/corrosion probably shorted it to ground (e.g. right side of the capacitor directly below) and burned the trace?
not completely sure, but it was lifeless until i soldered the wire, and now works perfectly!
finally managed to fix the water-damaged 2015 MacBook Air 😁 thanks to dosdude1 for the boardview and extreme patience with my questions!
replaying VVVVVV after about 5 years and it's 100% as good as i remembered ☺️
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It was kind of a trip out when I realized that the three primary colors aren't some objective fact of physics, but just an artifact of the kind of cones we have in our eyes.
@kawaiizenbo just recently learned that you can setup windows 11 entirely offline by pressing shift+f10 on the first screen, then `cd oobe` followed by `bypassnro`. this skips the network setup entirely and defaults to a local account
just found a very small surface-mount component on my desk shortly after swapping SSDs in my 2010 MacBook
it still works but...
@sanvsarr yesss, he posted about selling signed copies around christmas, i figured a replacement for my "crime pdf" copies was long overdue anyways.. 😅 just arrived a couple days ago!
finally bought a legit copy of Area X by Jeff VanderMeer. you should read this.
can they make a raisin and grape juice from the same grape
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Game idea. Put important info in the top-left, top-right and bottom-right corner. This means streamers will place their face in the bottom-left. Nice! Now, make a trap in the level.
When a player falls for it, have a very mild insult like "silly goose" and an arrow pointing toward the bottom-left corner.
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