Notices by Jack William Bell (jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com)

I bought a new 'over the range' microwave and, although I haven't installed it yet, I plugged it in today and used it to heat something.

You know how microwaves blink the time until you set it (which I usually don't bother with)? This is the first time in my life I've run into a microwave–or any consumer electronics device–that INSISTED I set the time. It showed a, "Please press the set time button," message and refused to work until I did.

I'm sending it back if it insists I connect Wifi!

@cstross @foone

I owned a Corona back in the mid '80s.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_Data_Systems

I loved that machine and even invested in updating it. I remember trying to talk my then wife into letting me buy a 20MB Seagate drive for it by waving a floppy around and claiming, "It holds *60* of these!"

But a few years later I updated to an 80286 like everyone else.

@Johannab

Please name and shame the instances on #Fediblock for lazy mods like me.

@kabrams

Thanks. I'll get busy blocking.

@JohnShirley2023

(John, I'm adding the #Fediblock tag here. What follows isn't meant directly for you, so you can ignore.)

Admins and Mods reading Fediblock: John has been getting a lot of unwelcome attention from Nazis and the like. See the above post for a list of abuser accounts.

Are these known abuse instances? If yes, as a mod for my instance I'll want to block them. But, as always, I want to check with the brain trust first.

Thanks!