Notices by Jan Beta (janbeta@chaos.social), page 2

@BethanyBlack The real difference between all electronics built in the 70s and stuff made today is that the older devices were (mostly) built to be serviceable (and servicing is indeed needed from time to time). Recent stuff mostly just gets thrown out or "repaired" by replacing whole PCBs and such. I really hope the right to repair legislation is going to bring back repairable electronics in the future. There’s still hope, if not much.

Dear German online shops,

please stop randomly sending these little Haribo bags out with orders. I know you mean well, but: The little gummy bears are mostly made from pig gelatin, which neither serious vegetarians/vegans nor peeps whose religious beliefs forbid eating pork want. That‘s a considerate part of the population!
I’m probably going to pack them all up and send them to Adrian Black (or maybe give them to somebody nearby who enjoys them).

Thanks,
Jan (serious vegetarian, mostly vegan)

@georgetakei I‘m starting to think that getting rid of all halfway reasonable journalism on the platform is part of the plan. Which is worrying in multiple ways.

Gonna tell my kids this was #JohnMastodon.

My father found this 3.5" disk drive cleaning kit in a drawer and gave it to me last weekend. #floppy #DiskDrive #RetroComputing