Everyone wants on Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride!

Commodore basic on the PET computer, back around 1981-1983. My grade school had three of them in the library, and since my mom was a teacher, she would sign one out for summer break and bring it home if any were available.

His watch has ended.

I bought a couple Sceptre TVs six years ago, been great.

Not a laptop, but I had an old motherboard from over 20 years ago not doing anything. Screwed it to a board on the wall of my shop. Added an old hard drive and some components out of the same old box it was in, and now have it running Mint. Found an old wifi card that works too, so I can look up parts and repair videos while I’m working on projects. Works great.

I wish the US had made the switch to metric back in the 70’s. I remember having to learn it in grade school, and there seemed to be a push for it, but never went anywhere. I now work as a chemist where everything is done in metric, but then go back to US measures once I punch out for the day. Would be nice to have a single system instead.

I still have a spindle of Lightscribe cd’s around the house somewhere…

Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball

For the love of god! My anus is bleeding! (-Yay! Hooray!-)

It’s a dual drive redundant setup. Unless something catastrophic happens, I doubt both drives will go out at the same time. I could do an offsite backup as well, but just haven’t.

Been using a Synology NAS for the past year for automatic photo backups. Take a photo, it gets copied to my drive at home so long as there’s internet access available. No issues so far. Turned off my backups to Google.

Aaaaand, it’s gone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3AM00DH0Zo

Bro Hymn by Pennywise is playing right now. Listening to the punk channel on XM.

The NRA has a bloody hand in promoting this culture. Decades of escalating fearmongering brought them members, money, and political influence. It also took them far off course from their original goals promoting safety and responsibility. They now exist solely to promote more firearms sales at any cost, and actively push legislation against any attempts to regulate ownership. I enjoy going to the range once in a while to do some target shooting, and used to hunt years ago, but will never be a NRA member. I have no respect for this organization and what they’ve become.

In the 80s and 90s HP printers were great. They just worked, even in rough dirty manufacturing environments. You could just about drop kick one, and it would still print out a page for you. Now they’re crap. The investment firm that owns the brand is past beating the dead horse, now trying to squeeze every last dollar out of the carcas.

Looks like Joanna Gaines. Her and her husband used to do a home makeover show.

Looks just like our dog. We were told he’s a lab and chihuahua mix by the original owner.

There’s a town of Horneytown and Horneytown Rd here in North Carolina. Heard that the country store there does just that, selling shirts and whatnot. I’m guessing the road signs disappear around there frequently too.

I set on Lemmy.zip during the blackout protest on Reddit, and haven’t gone back to it. Don’t miss it. Lemmy has grown a lot in the past few months. It’s only a fraction of the Reddit userbase size, but steadily filling out and getting better.

Gnomengarde sounds like the ancestral home of the Garden Gnome.