It’s like how they slapped ‘Smart’ on every tech product in the past decade.

When I was a teen, it was “e”-everything. E-mail, e-pets, e-bologna, e-games, e-surance, whatever. eBay is a relic of this era.

Also known as “hmm, what else can the ESP32 do?”.

Is this allowed? Are we allowing them to do that again?

That’s a level of trust I’m surprised that so many companies and governments are completely fine with.

Crowdstrike. 'Nuff said.

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What do we do, go back to ragecomics and lolcats? Or does 4chan own those too?

I am fully competent when it comes to online literacy, and smart phones didn’t even exist when I was in school. We had computer labs, computer classes, and libraries with computers in them, we learned just fine.

You don’t need to be on social media or Tiktok, or cheat on your assignments with ChatGPT during school hours.

Oh no, I don’t think my attention span can handle a full three minutes. That’s like, a whole movie.

What’s so funny? This is how we played multiplayer Doom in 94.

We used to say 4GB is enough. And before that, a couple hundred MB. I’m staying ahead from now on, so I threw in 64GB. That oughtta last me for another 3/4 of a decade. I’m tired of doing the upgrade race for 30 years and want to be set for a while.

I can literally trace my current Ryzen PC’s lineage like the ship of Theseus to an Athlon system I built in 2002. A replacement GPU here. Replacement mobo there. CPU here, etc.

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Never experienced Slackware so I can’t compare, sorry. When I got into Linux in like, 2002, I was using Mandrake before they died, and didn’t hear much of Slackware at the time.

I had a friend that was a couple years older that was running it on a home web server though. Back when people ran home web servers. This dude would sit there and use the keyboard the entire time even in OSes like Windows, he memorized every goddamn shortcut and macro that exists. Had a dusty mouse next to his system almost never being used. Probably just to satisfy the BIOS self test.

I use it because it feels like the most Linux-ey of Linuxes (Linuxii??). I don’t know how else to describe it. It’s like, no bullshit, just Linux. Here’s the Lego pieces, go have fun.

You misspelled Windows 3.11 for Workgroups.

tada.wav 4eva

Well, despite its owner, SpaceX is actually doing cool and useful stuff. Nobody else bothered with the reusable rocket thing until they made it happen. Starship is on the way to becoming the world’s first 100% reusable orbital transport system, propulsively landing the second stage as well as the first. Soon as they get those toasty melty flaps figured out.

It just sucks that he’s in control of it.

We had remote starters in the 80s, they didn’t need Internet access, they were a completely local wireless solution, just like old wireless garage door openers.

Whoa, did I happen to miss something 30 years ago? What did they do?

The systemd debate is basically dead.

But the Super Nintendo vs. Sega Genesis/Megadrive debate rages on.

With me, I started applying at electronic security companies 20 years ago as a helper to pull cable and hang cameras, the simpler, more labor intensive stuff. They are always looking for people like that as the older folks like me go more into the head end set up and programming because our bodies hurt too much 😁. I learned 90% of what I know from on the job training, the rest I already had sort of a background in electronics because of my personal hobbies.

Nope, never will set foot in one. If the Cybertruck and similar future vehicles were under strict regulations and maintenance schedules like what the FAA does for airliners, which are also fly by wire, then I might consider it. Right now all I have to go on is trusting Elon’s company and his engineers directly. And they seem to just be wanting to create a flashy cell phone on wheels full of gimmicks, not any sort of dependable vehicle.