500$? and they used to make one of the cheapest computers on the market

was that woman olga tokarczuk?

its powered from a lab power supply because it bought it without the original one. also the frequent resets were perhaps caused by the instabiloty of the internal power circuit rather than thr external one

i had similar problems (as well as no tape i/o, colors and restarts after attempting to execute some more advanced commands) before i replaced the tr4 and it was caused by the lack 12v and -12v rails so maybe 12v rail that powers ram was unstable in your machines (due to a bad capacitor or transistor perhaps)

replacing transistors in the speccy is a bit problematic because no one sells ztxes, but i managed to find the tr4(ztx 651) one (but for example tr5(ztx 213) is apparently not manufactured anymore and i suspected that to be broken too so i just bought one with a similar hFE facfor but luckily i didnt have to replace it)

also which issue of the speccy did you have? mine is issue 2

i just got it to work like 3 days ago(it was damaged by reverse polarity and needed a replacement for tr4 and voltage regulator) but i probably will

2-in-1 shampoos suck tho, so unix wins again

its gotta be hard to be a conspiracy theorist nowadays where every theory turns out to be true

""""sideloading"""", oh look who cant say installing software

They clearly forgot what the p in pc means

But i can read those signals

By cross platform i mean that you can send message from one server (e.g. proton mail) to another (e.g. gmail)

This is not possible with signal, or any other messengers because email is a protocol and not a software

Don't kill emails. They're the only way of cross-platform communication that we have remaining