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Beautiful women texting me named Disk Not Ejected Properly
"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
😲 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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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.
just found a very small surface-mount component on my desk shortly after swapping SSDs in my 2010 MacBook
it still works but...
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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I saw this online somewhere and I just had to recreate it. This is my coding happy place.
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Until I was about 14, I thought the cones you sometimes see dogs wearing were to make the dog's bark sound louder and, thus, more effective for scaring away potential burglars.
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what i'm saying is: download the things you love. download even the things you like, that you find any significance in at all. hoard data. disk space scarcity is more or less no longer real if you have even a small amount of money to spend. anything that is not saved will be lost
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One of my favourite graphics on Wikipedia is this illustration of the maximum dimensions of a PDF page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seitengroesse_PDF_7.png
Correction: not the maximum size of a PDF file, but a page within a PDF file. (Thanks Uwe.)
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