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ThinkPad, but designed by Apple in California

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curious about that alternate universe Linux fanboys seem to speak from wherein IBM bought Apple in 1994 and then in 2001 they shipped a thing called “Mac OS/X” based on the AIX kernel

love 2 work with powerful ancient weapons like “the equals with tilde of side effect”

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oh thank the goddesses, it was literally just `.match?` not existing yet

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installing Ruby 2.3 for… some… reason

the amount of “ah yes, fingerprints must definitely be hereditary” out of that one cute trans tweet is just astounding, cis people are you ok?

it’s affirming to see, however, that this means you can be a moderately successful youtuber even with a perception score of 0

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lets plays are infuriating sometimes

player: “this ability is completely useless and I never use it”
player, later: “hmm, how do I get to that place?” [the ability they dismissed earlier would’ve shown them the easiest path there]

hot take Windows Vista was much better than Windows XP don’t @ me

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Best Windows version: 98SE
Best Mac OS version: 10.6 Snow Leopard

my favourite part is how the name doesn’t really bother to explain or allude to what it is at all

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“Nintendo Entertainment System – Nintendo Switch Online” is the most Nintendo possible name for the thing

A “Nucor environmental solutions” van is billowing white smoke lol

Weird solution…

my doctor says I’m extremely saturated with oxygen, so there

...either that or the documented solder point for the backlight is wrong, hmm

gotta say, much as the company I got this from has good hardware, their instructions are abysmal

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and yes, it looks like if I want the backlight and flash cart I’m going to have to add an extra power regulator because Nintendo’s wasn’t powerful enough! Fun!

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ok cleaning the screen is a *huge* pain, but I’ve got it assembled, at least!

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