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3 years back, teacher acquaintance said to me,

"School district IT won't support old classroom laptops, so they are all going to e-waste. Trash! Want one?"

Brought wagon, filled it, and I took them all.

Sorted, tested, labeled, figured out which still worked, stored them.

Now, younger childbeast tells me,

"My friends are tired of Windows, and want to learn Linux. Can we set them up?"

So, loading laptops last night, getting them ready for new homes.

Go, kids, go!

#repair #reuse #linux

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A bit of a longshot, but I'll throw this question out here! Anyone remember what sort of 6502 dev board was used for the Scottish Higher Technological Studies around 1991/2?

I remember it had keypad for entering your code as hex, 7 segment displays and digital inputs/outputs for switches, lights, stepper motors...

I remember there was a reference guide for it (folded sheet of A4) with 6502 op codes etc that could be used in the exam too. I binned school stuff many decades ago but curious to see if anyone out there still has anything from all those decades ago.

#computing #electronics


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Who needs science?

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#Olympics #Testing #Gender


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All corporations are evil, but some are more evil than others

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#Capitalism #NestlΓ©






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🌐 Frontend update

The main meow.social web frontend has now been migrated to Cerberus :cerberus:

This migration was carried out transparently, without any visible interruption for users.

The next step will be to move the heavier workloads to the new infrastructure. This work will continue in the background, and we will do our best to keep the process as transparent as possible.

Thank you for your patience.
πŸ’œ The meow.social Team

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@That_One_Guy@mastodon.world

So, out here in STL my car is easy to spot for a rather disappointing reason, and that's because I run Bee Friendly plates, the ones that support the Missouri Bee Keepers Association ( @That_One_Guy you should get a set), and apparently they've only managed to move 150 of them.

MO makes it difficult to get specialty plates, while at the same time having a mind-boggling amount of choices, 143 I think it is. Basically you have to donate to the organization, get an emblem usage form from them, and fill out an application, which application depends on the plate. I definitely like how most states do where you just get the plate at the DMV and they cut a check to the organization.

Any how, if'n you're in Missouri and want some specialty plates… dor.mo.gov/motor-vehicle/plate…

#Missouri #License-Plates #MO #Specialty-Plates

in reply to ChuffΒ²

The STL Beekeepers were helping people get these and a driving force behind it happening I think. I'm considering getting some but have this weird thing with avoiding personal plates.
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Yeah, they make it easy, the DMV not so much. Does seem a shame how few are out there.

Interesting, worried about personal info, or easily being spotted ? I can't help the latter, so i don't worry about it and i never do vehicle specific or personal stuff, my current plate is a silly job reference that few will get




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Still thinking the job market should be regulated to help people find jobs easier.

Meanwhile capitalism: Get our monthly $20 dollar subscription to JobCO and enjoy +50% more targeted jobs and add golden glitter to your profile so that HR companies can notice you!





β€˜No to war’: #Austria blocks US warplanes from its airspace


Vice Chancellor Andi Babler said his country wants β€œnothing to do with #Trump’s policy of chaos and his #war.”

Under #Austrian #law, all foreign #military #flights must apply for permission and declare their purpose before entering the country's #airspace.

Requests tied to active #conflicts are rejected, but routine transit or training missions are eligible for approval on a case-by-case basis.

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#DementiaDon #dictators #USAggression #USThreats #ComradeKrasnov #Iran








This house is great for WTFs. Each bedroom has an outlet and a ceiling fan controlled by a light switch. I eas hoping they did it the easy way and used the lamp box to tie everything together, but nope, one cable in the box. So,i decided to next look at the switch, maybe that's the junction, and… Off the top of my head i only know two ways to wire a circuit like this, but they came up with a third, they used a 14-3 Romex cable in the switch box. Umm, i'm trying to think of what they could've done, and drawing a bit of a blank.

#Home-improvement #Wiring




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the revisionism is insane
so many people glorify a past that never was. They just imagine that back then everything was swell and now woman "have to" work.
You know who might disagree? the woman of that time. the brave woman who fought tooth and nail for womans rights. It wasn't going swell.

In the last few centuries in europe everyone who was able (this includes children regardless of gender) had to perform hard labour every day for survival

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@saxnot
The biggest revisionism in the western world is the complete erasure of socialist movement from 19th century that brought the issues of equality between genders, child labor, voting rights and so many other rights we all enjoy and take for granted.

You can barely find a single American who have heard of Rosa Luxemburg. You won't find any person admitting that women received right to vote in Soviet union in 1917 compared to 1944 in France. And all Nordic countries with strong socialist, social democratic movement had this passed years before others.

The "socialist feminism" is defined as an American movement from the 1970s which makes me realize how strongly and well the propaganda affected, even the "progressives" in the west.

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My family is watching the Keith David-narrated Leonardo da Vinci documentary. He just told us about how da Vinci's first mechanical invention at age 24 was a device to take bars off windows and break out of a jail cell, invented after he was charged with the crime of having gay sex. Fuck yeah Leo.






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#Mental-Health #Society








β™² @wistquotes@friendica.world:
A quotation from Terry Pratchett
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.


Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 15, Men at Arms (1993)


More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8319…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #vimes #advantage #boots #investment #poverty #quality #rich #savings #spending #wealth


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Really enjoyed this one, great short little read for anyone what enjoys #MLP-fim stories.





β€œA nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.


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