bhtooefr @bhtooefr@mastodon.social

I guess I should do an #introductions, given the influx of new people.

I'm Eric, I live in Ohio (it's approximately as bad as it sounds), I throw computers at people for a living, and I have a varied set of interests:

* #retrocomputing is a big one for me, I post about it over on @bhtooefr
* #transportation, including #cars, #bicycles, #trains, and #planes
* #sustainability, #solar, #renewables
* I have opinions on politics. Not very left by Masto standards, off-the-scale left by US standards.

Things that I'm happy to CW:

* Politics (including Fedi politics)
* Religion/spirituality
* Common traumatic events
* Discussion of bigotry
* Intoxicants
* Lewd content
* Some controversial figures/organizations

If there's something not in the list below you'd like me to CW, or I forgot to CW something, please ask.

Things that I will not CW:

* Food
* Tech (except for tech pol)
* Swearing

If you do not wish to see this in TLs, please mute or block me.

Aetna ordered to pay $25.5 million after denying coverage to woman who died of cancer: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/aetna-ordered-to-pay-25-5-million-after-denying-coverage-to-woman-who-died-of-cancer/

...I'd like to note that I'm posting this from mastodon.social, instead of cathoderay.tube, on purpose.

Because this is from the third edition of the style guide.

From 2015.

And it's calling for being able to run on a maxed out machine from 1987.

We need more of that.

"[I]t is better to aim to make an application compact and precise in its functionality. Always bear in mind that some users only have a 4MB machine and may want to run your application alongside others."

"You will be able to sell to more users if you can keep within the requirements of a 4MB machine, of course. Even users with more than 4MB will prefer to use the extra memory for multi-tasking than running a single memory-hungry application."

"RISC OS 3.10 was the general release of RISC OS 3 for the Archimedes series of computers from Acorn. This is the oldest version that you need to consider supporting, unless there is a specific feature that your application requires that was not present in this version - for example 16 bit sound output."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_9218dTXXY

NO

NO

NO

This should be an ad for public transit, not an ad for enabling technology for bad drivers.

why do I like the Rumpler Tropfenwagen's design so much?

(Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/stefansgartenbahn/15531995409/ )

and test #7, just as a quick check, from MastoFE this time. should be the last one.

testing a fifth time (the second test didn't work) with an incorrect, known, and unsupported-by-Mastodon filetype

testing again, with an incorrect, but known, file type

testing again, this time from Brutaldon

testing something here

(Caption, because I forgot to do it on Brutaldon: Screenshot of a RISC OS machine running NetSurf, with a window open to Brutaldon in the background, and a window open to Emojipedia's article on the Pile of Poo emoji, showing that emoji are unrecognized Unicode characters.)

Also, an interesting side note: apparently Brutaldon *really* does not like media being uploaded without an extension, it threw a 500 each time I tried. (Tagging @gcupc for that one...)

...and file extensions aren't the norm on RISC OS. I had to manually add one, which also meant that the fun party trick of dragging from the screenshot tool straight to the browser file upload form didn't work.

Well, that's a big 💩 - RISC OS doesn't seem to have any emoji support at all, even in Unicode-enabled applications like NetSurf. Some people (*cough* @techfury @katex *cough*) will be rather disappointed.

Although, I will say, contrary to the help file's documentation... they didn't get "the effect pretty accuratly" - movement is way too fast and the animations aren't right at all for it - I suspect they timed it on a much slower machine tbh. (I got it from ftp://www.arcade-bbs.net/data/010000/012100/012130 for what it's worth.)

Oh no, I think @netkitty became !Kitten.!RunImage instead of KITTEN.EXE!