Because you have it reversed. This is new tech trying to interface with old tech. For when your Pentium 2 CD-ROM drive dies because a belt went bad. Or the laser is rotten. That kind of situation. Sourcing an IDE drive for old hardware is getting harder every day. (honestly, finding anything beige is getting harder)

I’ve always wondered about that, since in theory you can flip the removable bit on some of the USB flash media out there. Is that enough to trick the Windows installer? I don’t know.

wait wait… reading comprehension fail on my part. Both that NBC article and Wikipedia are saying that Kodak went against the grain by selling more expensive printers with cheaper ink.

Eastman Kodak Co. is introducing a line of desktop printers and low cost replacement inks on Tuesday, as the photography company takes on a market dominated by Hewlett-Packard.

That’s wild!

I had my inkjet from around 2011 to 2015. I think it was a C310 but I can’t find any proof of that. I only know it took the 30B/C cartridges.

They were $25-30 for a bundle on a retailer’s shelf while everything else was closer to $50-70 for a bundle on a retailer’s shelf. There was a 20% yield difference between the two, but that’s no 20% markup! I vaguely recall a 30B double pack that was only $15 total, and that’s what I used to buy once or twice a year. None of that hidden “Cyan mixed in the black to make it blacker” crap that HP did either.

How ironic that Kodak rigged the game to make ink expensive, and then others beat them at it.

Yeah, I found quite a few games that I had to go in and specify it re-download and use Proton because the Linux native build was borked.

Funny, I had a Kodak printer for years since they had the cheapest ink by a large margin. HP was always the most expensive.

What year did that flip?

I would have guessed a keycard inserted in a reader.

Hate to break it to you, but Facebook (ahem, sorry Meta) loves collecting your info even if you never use their services. So your info might be in this breach, even if you don’t have a username/password.

“No parent is going to buy a Wii because of the stupid name” -me, 2005

I had a coworker preparing a customer database that arrived via sneakernet. He typo’d a variable during an rm -f step and ended up wiping the device because it was his working directory and the variable was undefined.

The heart skip when an rm command runs longer than expected.

yeah, it was wild. I was trying to do set up some computer labs. Debian was the first suggestion in the guide:

After the second reinstall of Debian, I gave Fedora a try as it was the second to be suggested. Only to be greeted with this:

It took me forever to realize that dash-dot at the top left was not some stylization and was a button to show the overview.

funny you should say it like that. I just recently I tried using Debian’s default GNOME desktop and thought I had corrupted the install somehow. I reinstalled the OS two more times because it kept dumping me into a nearly blank screen with no obvious buttons to click aside network/sound/power.

I’m used to LXDE, KDE, and Cinnamon, so this was completely foreign to me… and trying to find the web browser had me at a caveman level of confusion.

Can’t recall the first with certainty, but I think it was when I was driving in a heavy snowstorm on the highway and witnessed an 18-wheeler jackknife in the opposing lane, eventually coming to a rest in the divider. Since stopping was only going to put me in danger, I had it call it in and give the mile marker.

I’m fairly certain it wasn’t a medical emergency, but given the snowy conditions it wasn’t going to be fun for anyone involved.

I had to switch away because of incompatible websites (Cloudflare hates it) but Pale Moon is still hanging around.

Source available here.

…and I’d like to add, if they are showing ads relevant to the website you are on, you are clicking those ads and thus giving away what interests you really have.

It was wild seeing fair-use Mickey Mouse in a divorce lawyer’s commercial.

To me, yellowed plastic is a badge of honor. Old age comes for us all.