Notices by VWestlife (vwestlife@mastodon.social)

If you ever wondered why old product ads often had unnecessary quotation marks around their name or slogan, you're not alone: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/161676/have-unnecessary-quotation-marks-evolved

I was looking for a hard drive to put in a trashpicked 2009 MacBook Pro, and I picked one I totally forgot I installed Haiku on. It boots right up and runs perfectly. https://www.haiku-os.org/

The X-11 version was actually remarkably close to being a "hot hatch": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRUbzsC5fSY

I agree!

I guess he's enjoying VHS Hi-Fi as an audio-only format.

Another web site that's a time capsule: Computer Video Editing magazine shut down in December 2004, but their web site is still online. https://www.computervideo.net/

Has anybody else noticed that Mastodon has suddenly stopped working correctly in older browsers today? In Opera 89.x all of the images are broken, and in MyPal (based on Firefox 68.x) all I get is a blank screen.

Yeah, I know, security updates, moving on with the times, etc... but if YouTube, Twitter/X, eBay, Yahoo, Patreon, etc., and tons of other major web sites still work fine in these browsers, I don't see why Mastodon can't. Hopefully this is just a temporary bug.

@nixCraft We need to get Snopes on that one. Every image I can find of this supposed Daily Mail article from December 5th, 2000 has the folds of the newspaper in exactly the same place, nor do we ever see the rest of the page it appeared on -- the image is always cropped halfway.

A Sony PVM, this definitely is not. But I still like it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vPCaHB_9TU

A few commenters on my OS/5 video were flabbergasted that there's no timebomb after the 30-day trial, payment is on the honor system, and done by sending a check or money order in the mail. That was the norm for DOS Shareware, folks!

@jeffjarvis Maybe there is some grain of truth to it. My sleeping noticeably improved after I began reading a book (a REAL book, not an e-book) for half an hour before going to bed, instead of being on the computer, watching video, or listening to music during that time. I fall asleep more quickly and don't wake up with nasal congestion so often.