www.java.com/en/download/...

Some variant of this has been going on since at least 2023. It'd be lovely if Microsoft stopped actively providing infrastructure to scammers, and PayPal locked down their domain so scammers couldn't send emails claiming to be from "service@paypal<dot>com"

It's super easy to spot this crap, btw.

Your email client will show:
- "From" address of "service@paypal<dot>com"
- "To" address is not you, because you were BCCed.
- looks like a PayPal email, but the footer has a contact email address that's obviously a random person's personal email.

(I got the two lego sets off ebay, still sealed, for ~$50 each. There's tons of other listings for still-sealed boxes of those two sets, all around the same price.)

(explaining chess) sometimes, if you move your hat to the wrong place, either a horse will jump on it or a building crushes it

as an E.M. Dash: rude ;~;

it actually came stock with a pair of switches for coil splitting, which is part of what got my attention originally!

i def want to mod it, just not sure what to do. the last time i had a good and fully-functional electric guitar was before i was aware of the concept of guitar mods lol

in other words,

i apparently bought a guitar with 10 years of deferred maintenance and then deferred maintenance for another 10 years because using a specific pickup and smacking it occasionally made it work Good Enough™.

(you know, until it didn't.)

So, fixing that problem uncovered other problems. We're now at:

1. pickup selector switch was busted
2. 1/4" jack was loose
3. 1/4" jack needed a connection re-soldered
4. 1/4" jack needed to be cleaned
5. ??? one of the coil split switches makes audio cut out entirely ???

1-4 have been fixed.

alternating between

CoNtEnT-lEnGtH
cOnTeNt-LeNgTh

for every request to amos' website in particular <3

but what do i do with my [does some math and promptly dies inside] 20 years of ingrained habitual capitalization, amos?