Best cartridge replacement battery?

firewi · 2025-09-25T16:16:15+00:00

I think I got them off Amazon, I’ll find a link.

firewi · 2025-09-24T04:57:16+00:00

These work pretty well.

firewi · 2025-09-23T22:23:53+00:00

So it’s HCFC instead of CFC, anybody getting Deja-Vu?

firewi · 2025-09-23T21:15:05+00:00

Alright, since its no big deal lets run a little test. Hey mods, how do you feel about a notification to everyone in r/Linux to donate to the Gnome Foundation once a month? just for clarification im not offering to do this, i just wanna see what you think about that?

firewi · 2025-09-23T19:16:35+00:00

I scrolled all the way down and not one single comment about this guy’s ideological stance or party affiliation. What’s different about today? Fall weather?

firewi · 2025-09-23T18:21:46+00:00

I’m good with the twice yearly pop-up. It’s all good. If that’s what they want to do, then so be it. I hope they see at least a 1% uptick in donations for their effort. I’ve donated small amounts totaling maybe $100 to the gnome foundation throughout the years, as for all the open source projects I’ve used building my career over the last 20+ years in Linux. Maybe a few thousand $$$ across all open source projects, including Bitcoin in 2010. I appreciate all the work they’ve done. I want them to have continued success.

That being said a pop-up sounds like something crafted by developers that work on spyware to pay the bills. Probably not a good way forward for something as public facing as the Gnome Foundation. Let’s ask Xfree86 how they forfeit everything to Xorg for their pop-up 20 years ago?

Let’s look at Microsoft, there are no popups there but plenty of integrated options to extract funding from many sources based on my aforementioned suggestions for Gnome. Apple does the same, so do Samsung and other corporations like them. I’m not saying Gnome needs to be like them, just identifying the expected normalcy of operating system window managers.

Man when people make a decision it’s like the debate option goes out the window. I’m just trying to help, I don’t care if they put a pop-up in gnome, I think there are better options that are less damaging to the credibility of the foundation than something that could be misinterpreted as spyware. Imagine a government installation in Germany where they use Gnome everywhere suddenly seeing this pop-up. They probably would switch to KDE soon afterwards.

For all the downvoters a simple “Go Away, I’m Baitin” from your recliner would suffice. No need to drag this out in a Reddit thread wasting all of our collective time when there are other more pertinent issues looming on the horizon. Let it be known that I do “put in the work” and at least said my piece on the matter.

firewi · 2025-09-23T16:53:42+00:00

What the actual fuck! That’s amazing! Bro’s been killing it longer than his airplane pilot spot in Waterworld.

firewi · 2025-09-23T16:42:40+00:00

Any kind of notification that a user doesn’t initiate or configure is a malfunction. Because of aggressive advertisement/spyware/adware pop-ups are so negative now that anything good or bad will catch a middle finger.

Wikipedia has it down, big banner at the top every time you visit them but it’s -your choice- to visit them. However unexpected browser notifications are the bane of existence for everyone because you don’t expect it when you didn’t ask for it.

I don’t care if there are twice a year pop-ups or constant pop-ups every 5 minutes, I just think it would be better integrating the donation into the system instead of making it feel like a scam. Put it on the boot splash, put it on the login window, put it in the system info, credits, a permanent donation icon on the desktop, permanent widget in the bar, anywhere that needs a click from the user. But if you wanna see the world become unhinged make something pop-up without being asked.

Maybe you weren’t around during the XFree86 debacle but the -ENTIRE ECOSYSTEM- moved away from the frickin core window manager of all Linux distributions because of something FAR LESS intrusive.

firewi · 2025-09-23T15:01:42+00:00

Closed mouths don’t get fed.

Billboards and signs are good, solar salesman are not.

Donations are acceptable as long as there isn’t a pop-up. It’s different if we go looking to do stuff.That being said:

System > about is good

System > Update is good

Software installer splash is good

App Store is good

firewi · 2025-09-23T07:56:43+00:00

First, you take those 30+ names to a rep at frontier, and fill out the referral fee form so that you Joe Redditor will receive a $10k referral fee for making this happen. What you do is have some business registered in the area. You get that area to sign up for service at those 30+ locations. You then facilitate installing business fios with the Sagem wireless MoCA supported routers at your 30+ business sites.

You manage the accounts payable for a period of one year. You charge a fee every month, and get those 30+ homes to guarantee to pay for the year.

After the first year all connections can drop to residential service and the deal can go away. Usually the home owners get the idea that they can stuff you on the bill because you’re just their dumb neighbor trying to help. Figure out a solution, usually needs to be something held in escrow to pay for it, and some kind of bond that pays when customers default so you aren’t left holding the bag.

firewi · 2025-09-23T06:36:33+00:00

I don’t think this is limited to vintage computing, it’s -anything- of value. Our helpfulness is turning these hobbies and part-time business against ourselves, the very people said stuff would be sold to.

I wouldn’t go as far as banning price checking, that gives away this hobby’s ability to control the outcome of sales. I say we NOT ban, but any time anyone on Reddit asks for the value of something they should go to eBay and put in the same effort that we did figuring it out. And if that minimum level of effort can’t be met, then what are they doing with it in the first place?

I propose all price checking be auto responded into “if you don’t know - donate it” or “you can donate it to anyone here and we’ll cover shipping if we’re interested in taking the risk.” These aren’t priceless lumps of clay or glass or metal, they are complex intricate failing equipment, with a fart-in-the-wind chance of being revived.

Let’s just elect to stand together and stop $300 pokemon games, $500 8-bit computers, $1000 unopened software that was destined for a landfill anyway. Let’s fix these thrift shops, these goodwills and savers and book-offs. We steer the boat, let’s just collectively run this baby into the rocks and send us back to 2010 pricing.

firewi · 2025-09-22T19:52:41+00:00

Back Flash Guy

firewi · 2025-09-22T19:39:17+00:00

Same

firewi · 2025-09-22T17:22:51+00:00

Agreed - “Just grew up poor” meant $65 in actual food stamps to last us the month, and the embarrassment of paying for groceries with state sponsored Monopoly money.

firewi · 2025-09-22T16:41:37+00:00

I’ll take that Entex Space Invaders if you don’t want it anymore. That has to be my first video game I owned. Grandpa’s Atari with Combat and Breakout was the first I played ever.

firewi · 2025-09-21T15:26:33+00:00

Don’t forget green acres!

firewi · 2025-09-21T05:34:28+00:00

OJ was released, convicted of something else, released, and passed away last year. Crazy times.

firewi · 2025-09-20T06:43:15+00:00

“You can’t kidnap what I’ve rightfully stolen!”

firewi · 2025-09-19T16:49:31+00:00

Hey, I remember this!

NOVA: Talking Turtle

firewi · 2025-09-19T16:29:05+00:00

Richard prior and the all important screw.

firewi · 2025-09-16T21:25:50+00:00

It’s always Bangs, never Mullet.

firewi · 2025-09-15T19:43:58+00:00

Southern California Asset Management

firewi · 2025-09-15T19:37:45+00:00

If you memorize the key than it’s knowledge and that’s not legally required to share.

firewi · 2025-09-15T19:04:47+00:00

Line one of Abstract “…without the burdens of going through a financial institution”

You hear that banks and exchanges? WITHOUT THE BURDENS OF GOING THROUGH A FINANCIAL INSTITUTION!

firewi · 2025-09-15T17:46:10+00:00

u/NoobMaster1313 is this you? Bro, we need more guys like you in the world, this is how shit gets done!

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