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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • First log out of lemmy.world. it’s called remove account…kind of scary but it won’t hurt. Turn close liftoff and go to system settings -> apps. Find liftoff and select storage and cache. In that menu select clear cache. Close the settings menu and go back into liftoff. Choose to add your account again and everything should be fixed… Or at least that fixed it for me.





  • We had these old ass everex (I think that was the brand) 386’s that had an one line 8 character display on the front that would display what drive was being accessed and what sector/track it was on. It was pretty useless, until we found the memory address that held the buffer (80h if I remember correctly. We were dumb so we wrote a TSR in turbo pascal that are random times would scroll something like “this computer is about to blow up in 5…4…3…2…1…BOOM!”.

    I don’t think anyone really cared as it was the secondary computer lab used by the programming club mainly, but we thought we were really bad ass.