It probably only costs like $10 to get a measured line professionally tattooed on your leg/thigh for reference.

355/113

Close enough right?

Also, a 1 meter pendulum swings at a rate of once per second. Handy info to know if all the clocks shut down, like in a survivalist situation or natural disaster.

Check my username. I’ve been partly obsessed with keeping accurate track of time since I learned to read an analog clock at age 9.

By age 12, I started learning the exact times of the school bells. By age 15, I learned how to rebuild digital watches, and even replace the quartz crystal with a more accurate one.

By age 17 I was rebuilding mechanical self-winding wristwatches, and also learning to overclock computers.

Edit: For extra clarity, I also now know how to tune the firing order on an ICE engine, no matter how many cylinders. I also know how to time a VCR and tune a guitar.

I’m 42 years old now.

There’s not gonna be a proper answer that applies to everyone. For myself, riding BMX flatland, riding unicycles, carving wood, learning survival skills, keeping time…

Happy day! The Internet Archive is back online!

https://rss.ponder.cat/post/41946

If/when the Archive does come back up, the short link is…

https://tinyurl.com/winflop395

It has a variety of versions as I’ve already mentioned, the 95 part of the link refers to the one with a taskbar and start menu.

I do hope the archive comes back up soon.

Edit: And yes, it does have the Y2K patches and a few other critical updates.

Thank you for giving a shit 👍

On that note, when people take a shit, where do they take it, and why?

I tend to leave my shit, not take it. Sometimes I even flush my shit. 💩

Thanks. I happen to have arranged Windows 3.11 to be live bootable from a single floppy disk. I call it WinFlop. Various versions of it actually, including a build with a taskbar and start menu.

I also made a companion disk, Diagnostic Utilities, that includes not only basic diagnostic utilities, but also CD, USB, and NTFS drivers.

I’ll be around all week. I’d share a link, but not much point right now, the Internet Archive is still apparently down ☹️

Oof, that’s some piss poor engineering right there.

Your screwdriver subscription has expired.

Please renew your subscription today!

Yes, very likely.

Just another instance where AI said fuck this, I ain’t correcting that today.

That’s a lot of extra words for lefty loosey, righty tighty.

Your door is a jar.

It depends which bicycle pedal you’re screwing in. They have opposite threads, designed where they’re self tightening on each side.

saidaybe?

windows: uninstall

Thank you. That just means I have more experience than you.

Instructions unclear, uninstall what?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=yIaNZXgDtRU