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Lupi

@lupi

cow of tailed snake (gay)

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you can say "chimoora" instead of "cow of tailed snake" if you want. its a good pun.​

i ramble about aerospace sometimes
I take rocket photos and you can see them @aWildLupi

I have a terminal case of bovine pungiform encephalopathy, the bovine puns are cowmpulsory

they/them/moo where "moo" stands in for "you" or where it's funny, like "how are moo today, Lupi?" or "dancing with mooself"

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things i think a lot about

  • microsoft still lets you download updates for windows vista. they only stopped providing activation and updates for XP because of unavoidable changes to SSL

  • virtually all motherboards, laptops, and almost every single retail-sold computer addon from the last 25 years still has drivers readily available for free download from the manufacturer's website, despite the site having been totally rebuilt at least 6 times and many of these drivers being several hundred megs

  • if you have a license key for a PC from 2007, it will get you free access to the latest version of windows. there is no cap on this. nobody who has bought a copy of windows in the last 17 years has needed to buy another one

  • there's a page on apple's support site where you can just download .dmg versions of the last like 9 macoses with no proof of purchase

  • in macos 10.6, apple wants you to register an account in order to finish installing, but by 10.11, the skip option is displayed plainly. the "are you sure" dialog defaults to "yes." the "can we collect your data" dialog also defaults to "no"

dark patterns aren't only unnecessary, they aren't even consistently popular with the companies that pioneered them

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with some finagling it was possible to upgrade a windows 2000 installation all the way to the latest patchlevel from within itself like last year still. the windows update app didn't work, but the microsoft download site did – as long as you knew the exact weird shortcode to input there

EDIT: actually, for finnish-language internet explorer 6 I did need to use internet archive, since the shortcode did not seem to be documented anywhere. but had I used english-language windows 2000, I could have avoided that

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