Notices by Hugh Messenger (cheesegrits@notvery.social)

Help me, fediverse!

Earlier today some keys on my HP Envy laptop, Windows 10, pretty much quit working. The F12, 9, O, L and . keys (so a stripe down the kbd). They aren't totally dead, maybe one in 20 key presses register. Although shifted, they don't work at all.

BUT ... they all work just fine in the BIOS, and pass the diagnostic test with flying colors.

I've reinstalled the keyboard driver, and done a system restore.

I am baffled.

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@kensanata we need hashtag namespaces.

Emacs lolz.

"GNU Emacs is an old-school C program emulating a 1980s Symbolics Lisp Machine emulating an old-fashioned Motif-style Xt toolkit emulating a 1970s text terminal emulating a 1960s teletype. Compiling Emacs is a challenge."

https://www.facebook.com/notes/daniel-colascione/buttery-smooth-emacs/10155313440066102/

@djsundog @c1t7 no need, I haz handy dandy Leslie next to the 'puter. :)

@dredmorbius @noelle I remember attending a talk by Mark Weiser, "father of ubiquitous computing" (which, loosely speaking, is now the IoT + mobile) at Xerox PARC in, erm, well, a long time ago, back when I was doing systems admin there. He was enthusing about 'puters being "in the woodwork everywhere", and I asked who was going to do the systems admin - security and updates. I was frostily told this was a "non issue". Yeah, right.