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Boost this toot if you're planning on sticking around Mastodon whether or not it becomes more popular than the birdsite.

Do you prefer to write Mastodon posts with your phone or desktop? Plz boost for reach. #Mastodon

What would you consider to be the “Golden Era” of Macintosh computing?

When I teach seniors how to avoid scams I take all of the Tech out of the conversation. ALL of it. Any mention of tech and the entire session is wasted as the fear of tech is stronger than the fear os being scammed.

However, what I do is show them how to spot when the scam is working on them. strong emotions are key to a phone scam

"If you feel angry"
"If you feel excited"
"If you feel afraid"
"If you feel pressured"
"If you feel rushed"

HANG UP!

#scams #conartist #phonescams

what was your first social network?

(plz boost for sample size)
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And there's the proper keycap set. I have a set of Atari keyboard decals coming, so every key will get a sticker to match, but that's the color scheme.

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Slapped on some random keycaps. The letters are mostly correct, the rest is mostly not. Feels really really nice to type on!

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The 400 is reassembled after bad ram chip replacement and keyboard upgrade!! Just waiting on keycaps now.

Why doesn't my local store carry 16 pin ZIF sockets? Damnit. Arduino-based 4116 RAM tester in testing.

Inspired by @NanoRaptor - I present the DB-14. It was used for CAD applications, however it was also known to suffer data loss.

I do not like that this needs to exist, but I'mma boost it until it's not. Do likewise, as you will.

@ben @nixCraft buy Debian during our Black Friday (and year-round) 100% discount sale, and get Firefox, Thunderbird, Emacs, Vim, KDE, GNOME, Apache2, WordPress, Freedoom, Nexuiz, Filezilla, RetroArch, Ardour, MuseScore, Audacity, An Anarchist FAQ, and much more for free!

Opened Steam and read "Autism Sale" and got really excited for a moment until my brain caught up....

The MOOF A DAY collection just passed 50 items.

What's a MOOF? It's a copy-protected Macintosh program, imaged using a flux reader called APPLESAUCE and made bootable in an emulator at Internet Archive.

If you lived through the early black and white macs, this growing collection is going to bring back amazing memories, and make a familiar "BING!"

archive.org/details/moofaday?s

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