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AhemHBomberguy

That brief, magical moment in time of about 2 decades in the "home computer revolution" of the 70s, 80s, and 90s, where you had to be an actual geek to be able to effectively use a computer are gone. That's how we all got trained. By being forced to learn if we wanted to do anything. Now, it's one-button instant gratification.

If y'all got kids, don't forget to teach them how MP3's and actual media files work, I see many young people nowadays don't even realize you can locally store your own music in a portable device-agnostic format. They're beginning to get used to the idea of not owning anything.

This one's cute. I'd definitely use it as an album cover for some band:

https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/81989cdc-f6f6-4307-bf34-ea2b78b2c701.jpeg

Yeah and my toaster is Zeus.

IANAL, but I'm not sure that's how laws in nested jurisdictions like the US work. If a city doesn't want to spend resources to enforce state law, or if a state doesn't want to spend resources to enforce a federal law, who's gonna make 'em? Obviously constitutional restrictions exist for all US governments, but you can't like, coerce a sub-jurisdiction to do anything beyond that, can you? That's why ten states rejected the ACA and were able to legally do so.

"They don't make things like they used to. See that tube radio over there? It's 75 years old and still working! A rare find!"

Add me to that list then, dick.

VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER

What if your wife's the one buying PC parts? Do y'alls wives not computer? Is this 1982?

A whole calendar with classics such as:

Who the fck does idiotic things like that? How did they noty die as babies, considering that they were likely too stupid to find a tit to suck on?"

Also, crossthreading = nature's loctite.

Software companies used to accomplish that with limited betas and release candidates without charging money for broken, half-ass shit.

Instructions on forum/support site:

"use the following command to edit the file: vi /path/to/config/file"

Me: replaces with nano before running

Somewhere in the southeastern US, there's some remnants of a 35 year old sandbox with a couple hot wheels buried four feet down. Yeah it takes a while.

I don't think he ever expected fortunes, going off his famous usenet post. He just wanted a Unix-like OS that wasn't Minix and didn't cost exactly one space shuttle. One that he could fuck around and do anything he wanted with without regard for someone else's license and restrictions.

Everyone else wanting one too was a happy accident.

There's other things that happen to a battery as it ages. Voltage sag with heavy current draw is one. An app that measures capacity may not take this into account. It may look fine and be at full voltage with light usage, but then launch a CPU-heavy app and it drops down a few tenths of a volt and isn't able to hold the voltage.

If it's discharged enough, sometimes this will drop the voltage enough to cause the phone to shut off even if it has a decent charge, say 20-30%.

You'll notice this in reverse too. The battery will seem to start charging faster than usual, but then the rate drops off dramatically as it gets close to full.

As a drone enthusiast, I'm pretty familiar with this effect because we abuse the shit out of our batteries.

A mind molded by a lifetime of neoliberal capitalism does this. Same as when they were all looking for the "Bitcoin CEO".