Dave.

Bit late now, but a tiny squirt of WD-40 into the ribbon cartridge often got you another few hundred pages out of it.

All hail laser.

No love for the 9 pin dot matrix?

Just use one of these tried and tested standard disclaimers from 2012, I’m sure they still have exactly the same legal weight as they did back then, right? That Rome Statute is something to not fuck around with, that’s for sure.

(/s , just in case)

Hi all. Don’t forget today starts the new Instagram rule where they can use your photo Don’t forget Deadline tomorrow !!! Everything you’ve ever posted becomes public from tomorrow. Even messages that have been deleted or the photos not allowed. It costs nothing for a simple copy and paste, better safe than sorry. Channel 9 News talked about the change in Instagram’s privacy policy. I do not give Instagram or any entities associated with Facebook permission to use my pictures, information, messages or posts, both past and future. With this statement, I give notice to Instagram it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, or take any other action against me based on this profile and/or its contents. The content of this profile is private and confidential information. The violation of privacy can be punished by law (UCC 1-308- 1 1 308-103 and the Rome Statute). NOTE: Instagram is now a public entity. All members must post a note like this. If you prefer, you can copy and paste this version. If you do not publish a statement at least once it will be tacitly allowing the use of your photos, as well as the information contained in the profile status updates. DO NOT SHARE. Copy and paste. Wondered why Instagram was so boring!

Deadline tomorrow !!! Everything you’ve ever posted becomes public from tomorrow. Even messages that have been deleted or the photos not allowed. It costs nothing for a simple copy and paste, better safe than sorry. Channel 13 News talked about the change in Facebook’s privacy policy. I do not give Facebook or any entities associated with Facebook permission to use my pictures, information, messages or posts, both past and future. With this statement, I give notice to Facebook it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, or take any other action against me based on this profile and/or its contents.

Better to be safe than sorry. An attorney advised us to post this. Good enough for me. The violation of privacy can be punished by law (UCC 1-308- 1 1 308-103 and the Rome Statute). NOTE: Facebook is now a public entity. All members must post a note like this. If you do not publish a statement at least once, it will be tacitly understood that you are allowing the use of your photos, as well as the information contained in your profile status updates. I HEREBY STATE THAT I DO NOT GIVE MY PERMISSION."

I do not give Facebook or any entities associated with Facebook permission to use my pictures, information, messages or posts, both past and future. By this statement, I give notice to Facebook it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, or take any other action against me based on this profile and/or its contents. The content of this profile is private and confidential information. The violation of privacy can be punished by law (UCC 1-308- 1 1 308-103 and the Rome Statute).

NOTE: Facebook is now a public entity. All members must post a note like this. If you prefer, you can copy and paste this version. If you do not publish a statement at least once it will be tactically allowing the use of your photos, as well as the information contained in the profile status updates. DO NOT SHARE. You MUST copy and paste

If you’re out on a farm, you fit the intended use case for starlink.

The issue is that all them city folk see starlink as a way of escaping the locked in municipal ISPs. So they clog up satellite bandwidth when they have fibre/5G/HFC/wireless/xDSL options literally at their front door.

I’ve been working on updating all my old software projects lately, and as part of that process I feed the source code into a LLM for review.

The amount of simple security errors, logic flaws, and code smells that it reveals is quite embarrassing.

This was all “good functional code” that’s been used internally for years. Clearly it worked well enough, but a simple pass through a LLM reviewer made it a lot more robust and secure.

That’s why they used to restrict signups in certain geographical areas. But then people complained that they couldn’t sign up. So here we are.

Just run ‘sfc /scannow’, it fixes everything.

If you don’t believe me, just ask your friendly local volunteer Microsoft customer service agent, they’ll tell you.

Well, from a technical standpoint they now routinely do weekly what was never ever done before by anyone. Both in launch cadence of their booster fleet and the recovery of them, and they’ve pretty much fully transitioned to only making their Stage 2’s and just using their existing fleet of boosters. So from a rocket company perspective, SpaceX is a legitimate company, and they’ve made legitimate advances in the field of rocketry, and now they outpace the rest of the global market combined in tons to orbit.

Then you fold in Starlink, which needs those weekly launches to maintain the constellation… and then you fold in Starship, which is the next generation launch platform, and it’s like “Ok… that’s still rocket-y, that’s cool”.

And then along comes xAI tacked onto the side like a 100 billion dollar dead weight and that is where things get a bit wobbly.

“Sorry boss, quota resets this evening at 8. See you tomorrow!”

“But it’s 9am!”

*shrugs* “Quota. Got none. Seeya.”

Roflcopter?

Hey hey hey hey hey whoa whoa let’s just keep the big guns in reserve for now, ok?

No, the worst app is Windows 11. My parents have some all-in-one HP PC. It has some Intel laptop processor from about 8 years ago, 16GB of ram, (upgraded from 8), and a wheezy 256GB spinning drive, running Win10 adequately.

After being bombarded with “upgrade to Windows 11! It’s easy and fun!!” notifications, they did so, and of course their PC is woefully underpowered for the job.

I log in remotely and check what’s running and the OS is paging to the swap file constantly. [Edit: and I mean, to the point where opening an application takes 60 seconds of disk thrashing for a window to appear]

I had to get a de-bloat script and turn off about 50 Microsoft “essential services”. The biggest hog out of them all was copilot, which was using about 4GB while sitting there idle.

I have no doubt that I’m going to have to run that script every month as everything gets “repaired”, until I can get back to their place and put a SSD in and maybe install some flavour of Linux.