New York state passes first-ever “right to repair” law for electronics https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/3/23153504/right-to-repair-new-york-state-law-ifixit-repairability-diy
@Cleoqc btw can you get pluto tv up there? John just informed me that he's been watching a load of Pertwee & Baker episodes as they have a classic dr who "channel"
celebrate the 125th anniversary of Dracula, we will be attempting to break the record on 26 May for the largest gathering of vampires at Whitby Abbey,
currently wiping drool off the laptop screen as been browsing and looking at the surface pro 8 i7 (+keyboard and pen). sweet but yikes pricey.
cc: @Cleoqc
and not 100% sure the processor hasn't been swapped out as the specs seem different but as i said not 100% sure so while the repair is great not happy about the rest.
*have a few photos from before i sent it for repair to prove it
received my repaired laptop back from Asurion this morning and after checking it out the actual repair was great but my pristine laptop* has scratches all over, had a loose screw (found it in the box), important bit of rubber missing and keyboard back light no longer works the palm rest is definitely not the one sent as mine was stickerless this one has manky stickers on it
OpenVMS on x86-64 reaches production status with v9.2 https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/10/openvms_92/
Now you can (sigh) "toot" to Mastodon from the comfort of Emacs with this extension I hacked together. https://github.com/igb/emacstodon
Currently located in NYC.
Raspberry Pi, IchigoJam, Z80, CP/M, Retro, snarky comments & anything else that takes my fancy
Founder of The Society for the Preservation of Mickey Mouse Programming