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I don’t want to brag, but I have like 5 Linux distros in my garage. And I drive them all, regularly.

When you’re old enough to buy physical media, your eyes have gone bad enough that you don’t need 4k 8-)

I regularly use optical drives for the movies. Why should I pay twice the price to “buy” some movie from Apple or Google? I rather wait 2 days for the mailman to deliver me a Blu-ray that doesn’t only have better quality, but also keeps working when some company decides to stop licensing the stuff I purportedly “bought”. Second-hand discs sometimes cost as much as 1€.

But well, I might be a bit old school, as I just got a few new vinyls delivered to me the other day.

Just add // @TODO find out why this crashes our application sometimes to fix that issue

The G in GNU stands for JPEG.

The W in Windows stands for worse, so good for you.

Yes, it was a joke, please don’t take health advice from memes and don’t try to loose weight by donating blood. While it allegedly has some health benefits, your main motivation should be to help people who need the blood.

The only problem is, that it takes your body 1-2 months to rebuild the lost blood cells. So, daily bloodletting will definitely cause weight loss, but probably more permanently than you’re intending. ☠️

My dad was born in 49, he never had to fight in a war. On the other hand it would have been a hell of a ride for him to tramp to Woodstock from western Europe.

The revised version is also great. Most of the content is still the same, a nuclear reactor works just the same way as it did in 1995. But most of the IT topics are updated. Instead of a ball mouse you’ll find an optical one, instead of the CRT they explain LCD screens etc.

There’s also a “new”(2016) book in the same style but for science instead of technology. It’s just as good as you’d expect it to be.

At least Denmark and Canada had Leopard 2s in Afghanistan that were involved in combat. So maybe the “Brits” were just fancy Canadians.

It’s the other way round: I don’t know if it applies to this fella, but /we/ used ** // and __ long before applications knew what that’s supposed to mean. We’ve been using it even on devices that are _physically_ incapable of producing formatted text, so it was the readers responsibility to parse and understand what it’s supposed to mean. Back in those days we’d also type :'-( instead of 😢.

It actually annoys me that markdown got it all wrong, and thus applications using markdown do it all wrong as well:

*foo* should be bold, not italic
/foo/ should be italic, not just /slashes/
_foo_ should be underlined, but for lemmy that’s just another way of saying italic, underlining seems to be outright impossible.

Why? :'-(

Man, these pesky doctors. They always forbid the fun stuff.

JavaScript: Hold my Date!

new Date().getYear() == 125

I totally agree with you, especially in the second part where you’re talking about the US being a weird ass country full of wackjobs.

But that doesn’t mean that we in the other countries aren’t a bunch of wackjobs either. We might not be as totally wack as you are right now, but that’s just a matter of past or future. Just so you know: We already found the worst possible solution, so you don’t have to find it for yourself, you can learn from us and choose another path.

Could y’all please stop dieing on hills all the time?! I love hiking, but all the corpses are really disturbing.

Thanks, I didn’t know that. And now I wish I could forget it again.

Thanks, I didn’t know that. And now I wish I could forget it again.

“Tru dat\!”