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Now, not so unusual, I have pretty dull and standard "gaming" type PC running stock Debian, but about 20 years ago as a broke mofo I was running a phpBB forum off a wheezing Pentium MMX laptop with no screen (got ripped off a year prior) on Mandrake Linux. The whole thing was just loosely sitting under my bed. Managed to get a userbase of just under a hundred people before I lost interest. I was using Webmin to manage it from another PC.

I had to connect up an external monitor every time I needed to do something I couldn't do remotely. I learned so much from that laptop. "./configure, make, make install" became muscle memory.

It's also a cartoon. Vitamins, supplements, treadmills, stationary bikes, weights, and rowing machines exist.

According to what I just looked up, they pay him a weekly salary of $50 so he'll show up every so often for special events. Hardly raking in the big bucks.

OMG, that's horrible. Back in my day all we did was set a screenshot of the desktop as the wallpaper, and then hide all the icons to prank people.

General AI doesn't exist. Intelligent systems and agents very much do exist.

Because these people are trying to get an OS running on 15 year old dumpster dived laptops. It's kind of a Linux thing to get it running usably on the biggest old piece of shit you can find. I've done similar myself with a Pentium II machine from the late 90s in 2015.

People with modern multiple cores and dozens of GB of RAM are not usually worried about these things.

Until it becomes part of the samples/loops for a whole new genre of music two decades later. Like the TR909 drum machine and the popular "amen break" rhythm line.

Up close, it's my computer monitor.

As a person who stares at a lot of text up close, 4k makes a difference. I don't notice antialiasing pixels anymore, my eyes finally see it as a smooth blend and it looks like I'm reading actual print.

If you are a heavy cannabis user, quitting for a week or two has the same effect until your tolerance goes back down.

I'll settle for this ESP32 microcontroller I'm currently playing with to play variable-bitrate MP3s through a decoder chip without segfaulting.

Construction too. I peg my "I'm in danger" meter every time I go up in a scissor lift. Those lights/speakers/fire strobes/WAPs don't make it 30 feet up to your Walmart ceiling by themselves. Then there's the residential a-hole who wants a camera at the apex of his roof on the third floor, so gotta break out the creaky old sun-bleached 40-foot extension ladder and fuck around like Clark Griswold...

I have no good excuse. I was 19. Weed and ejaculating were more important.

Nope, never lost my DOS, I made backups.

I'm only a hobbyist, but I do embedded programming, and knowing computer science concepts really helps when you're bare-metal programming a teeny-tiny computer in say, a smart toaster.

Pointers and dereferences and how memory works, buffers, interrupts, how registers work, and perhaps even a little bit of assembly are still very useful things to know about in today's world, just not on the web. But like damn near everything has little computers in it everywhere, even your TV remote. I bet the average home is filled with hundreds of these one-chip computers.

I can already imagine razor wire fencing and a watchtower or two around these public "encampments" soon, you know, for their "safety".

So where the fuck are they supposed to sleep you fucking evil, heartless shitnuggets? You know damn well what the situation with shelters is.

Isn't that something you can just install yourself? I don't own a surface, not sure how locked down it is and how "PC-like" it is in terms of architecture.

You're a programmer, aren't you? Always thinking about those race conditions and edge cases.