Why would CP/M have a dog in the fight? They were a competitor and, if I understand my history right, the wrong horse.

And By the PC-DOS guys, you mean IBM?

They’re a pain in the ass if you actually…store your flour in them. Like if you don’t pour your flour into a flour jar when you open a new bag.

soon

“Why does everything have to come in plastic? Something something petrochemicals, something something microplastics. Bring back the paper bags.”

They do get crusty though.

I never like trademarking sounds. Harley-Davidson tried to trademark their exhaust note once, as if anyone else wants to make engines as bad as theirs. But you shouldn’t get to trademark “generic white chick voice.”

Pilot here: in a weird way, a thousand feet is a unit. “Five thousand, Five hundred feet” is processed kind of like 5.5 altitudes. Bonus: traffic patterns are typically flown at 1000 feet AGL, so 1.0 altitudes, so pilots see that distance a lot.

Are you sure? Aren’t they Bri’ish, so they’d be gallons, but weird slightly small gallons?

No you see, everyone else in the world exclusively describes the world in accurate SI units, only Americans are dumbfuck enough to measure things in bullets per cheeseburger. Nobody else in the entire world will casually say “it’s the size of a medium dog” because America bad.

GTK fully expands to GNU’s Not Unix Image Manipulation Tool Kit.

A maGical briDge of hoPe, and wonDer…

ChaaaaaaRlieeeeeee…ChaaaaaaaaRlieeeee…We’re on a bridge, Chaaaaaarlieeee…

It’s not open source unless the package name is a scabby dumpster fire.

It’s been so long that I’ve gamed on Windows that I’ll have to take your word for it.

“Us” and “we” exist in the language already.

y’all or you’ns or yinz or whatever evolved to fill a niche. English has an official second person singular, thee/thou/thy and the funny thing is thou canst still perfectly understand it, it makes perfect sense to thy ears, even my spell checker isn’t flagging any of this. But we don’t use it anymore because it sounds pompous and biblical, plus for some reason it comes with a bunch of fucky conjugations. Like “canst.”

French does still use theirs, tu vs vous, tu is singular but also informal, you speak that way to individual friends and loved ones, vous is used for plural as well as in formal speak, even if singular you say vous to your boss. English deprecatedest thou entirely and went entirely “you” which leaves too big of a gap. So Americans took “you” to be the new singular and invented “you all” and “you ones” in parallel for plural, slanged to y’all and you’ns the latter has no consistent spelling.

I have a money market account at a credit union…?

So it’s Stadia, again?

I’m a mid-millennial, born in the late 80’s. I’ve seen all of the 90’s.

If I was going into temporal witness protection, going back in time to keep me safe from the mob I ratted out…would I want to live in 1995?

2005 is an easier sell. I graduated high school that year, and a LOT changed in those ten years. Would I want to go back to 1995?

Nnnnnn…that line “I say ‘your civilization’ because when we started thinking for you it became ‘our civilization’ which is really what this is all about” hits different in 2026. In 1999 it came across as generic movie villain drivel, now it’s headline news.

The grapuh of Linux suitability as a function of user skill is a U. At the bottom of user skill, you’ve got your aunt who needs a Chrome bootloader. Linux is perfect for them, maybe better than Windows.

As you get into the middle, you get into “I just need to use Photoshop” or “I just want to play Valorant”. It’s gotten to where software that doesn’t run on Linux is a deliberate choice, but they’re still out there. Gaming has been easing up in large part due to Valve, so the middle of the U has been rising, but it’s still a big dip.

At the top end you’ve got the computer science types developing all these internet and AI based systems almost all of which run on Linux servers in the back end. Linux dominates literally every computing platform except desktops.

Proof of humanity on Tinder. That’ll be the day.