I told you to remember where you parked it.

I thought that it became MANGA when it changed from FAANG?

It explains that it means “fan failure”.

And there was a link to a video of it happening.

The only other link to an MS support page did not work.

But you’re not allowed to proceed in life until you’ve pressed any key!

Maybe so. But it did process duplicity backups every week for hundreds of Gb, so it did a fair amount of work even though not constantly active.

FWIW, I ran a Pi 2 with external (self-powered) USB drive for about 8 years as my main backup without issue (except that it was slow). I’ve just replaced it with a Pi 5 and TerraPi frame holding an SSD.

I remember an obscure one named “grommit” that was a dancing animated character and you’d click it to change arm and leg movements.

Bonzi buddy was over of the bad ones, maybe?

Drain.exe would say “water in drive a:, commencing spin cycle” then power up the drive and make a gurgling sound.

Sheep.exe … would create a sheep that would wander the desktop.

When I read it, it stirred a distant memory of hearing such a story before, so I knew that there was something behind it and looked it up.

You could just about play speech using one bit output using pulse-width-modulation. But it was almost unrecognizable. And would take a lot of memory for the time.

It was usual to have different numbers of beeps for POST errors.

But this was an age when a PC would say “Keyboard error. Press any key to continue”, so things were not thought out that well.

That probably wasn’t a virus.

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2bs41z/til_that_if_your_bios_was_made_by_awardunicore/

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Oh that’s a good idea. In fact with more measurements, it would become harder and harder to ignore them corresponding to a spherical model.

Every degree of latitude would be a degree of shadow angle.

For flat earth, it would be on an inverse tangent curve. Even if it was argued that the air somehow bent the light to distort results, what are the odds that it would do so in a way that exactly matched a sphere?

Someone should set this up as a world-wide science project. It would be easy to coordinate measuring at the same time.

To play devil’s advocate, wouldn’t you get the same result on a flat earth, if the sun was closer enough for rays not to be parallel?

Some travel routers have a USB socket for media.

They’re usually used to make connecting to hotel Wi-Fi easier (you connect your devices to its ssid, then connect to its admin page and connect it to the wifi, or just plug it in to the lan).

Tp-link ac750, for example

https://www.tp-link.com/us/support/faq/340/

Physical? As in a medical exam with a doctor?

If so you should really have a check up with an eye doctor, there are lots of eye health tests that you should regularly get beyond checking that you can read a chart at a distance.

Rsync.net has a discounted “Borg” account https://www.rsync.net/products/borg.html Which seems to be basically no support and no zfs versioning.

Yeah for interpreted BASIC.

But even after moving to writing assembly language on a separate PC devkit there was still the habit of using short names.

I think that some assemblers had limits on name size.

Leaning to program on 8-bit machines with 8k of RAM means that even today I abbreviate names.

Plus it was accepted wisdom that shorter variable names were faster for the BASIC interpreter.

Yeah, even using a hotspot internationally it’s the same price, with the same data limits.

And with data-SIMs, it’s possible to share that data with a few other devices, still at no extra cost.

Those features are often overlooked when people ask why it’s more expensive than e.g. Mint.