That’s Microsoft. They got desktop PCs. They repeatedly failed to get mobile, they repeatedly failed to get portable, they never had embedded, they had fucking Skype at one point. They drink gold and piss nickel, Microsoft.

It just kills me, “Hang on, we’re about to storm the capitol building? Let me not take a shit, put on my fur, horns and makeup real quick. This is gonna make history.”

What a waste of vaginal dryness.

Probably a domestic longhair. Maine Coons have really distinctive heavy snouts, they’re dramatically huge, like the size of a bobcat, and they’ve got this dense 3 layer coat that forms a lion-like mane.

If it’s just some little dude that wandered up out of the world in the top 50th percentile of fluffiness, what you’ve got there is a domestic longhair. Probably introduce him to brushing while he’s young because mats aren’t fun, otherwise same operator’s manual as a shorthair. Obligate carnivore diet, scatching post and sandbox, gentle scritches behind the ears, lots of naps, sunny windowsill for basking.

Every time I pet my cat, a random stranger somewhere in the world dies. There’s 8 billion people in the world, at least a few hundred are born and die every minute.

That would be a question for your vet. Does kitty get around the house okay?

Fundamentals of Instruction.

That would require a number of teachers that actually understand or care about FoI which we don’t have.

I have a Ryzen 7700X, a Radeon 7900GRE and 32GB of DDR5. I’m gaming at 1440p in Unreal 5 games at reasonable framerates.

It’s getting to the point that…I think I have enough. I don’t think I’ll ever see another jump in capability like I used to. I remember when the N64 could do things the SNES couldn’t. By the PS3 era, things were basically good enough. What else is there to want out of a gaming PC?

Are there any actual Tarheels in any office in the state?

Oh great, .ml and hexbear are getting mroe members.

Idiocrat

There’s a Youtube channel called Ben Eater that does a great job of explaining computing from first principles. He built a computer out of discrete components on breadboards. He also has a great series where he wires up a 6502 microprocessor and basically builds a little 8-bit microcomputer around it, again on breadboards, in a way that you’ll get. He sells them as kits, so you can play at home if you want. They’re also just nice educational evening calm time viewing.

“Work” computers will often have legacy ports because maybe you need it to connect to some old printer.

There are a lot of places still using old-style dot matrix printers or other weird old hardware. Point-of-sale systems made to this day often come with a bunch of serial, or not quite serial, ports.

Look, I’d like to see that little shit do better.

Well that’s nice of them.

You think they licensed that from…it would be Disney now?

Homestaw Wunnew.

No lemons, on melon.

Too bad I hid a boot.

Lisa Bonet ate no basil.

War sir is raw.

Was it a car, or a cat I saw?

LLMs like Gemini have basically the exact same UI form factor as the Starship Enterprise’s computer. All you need is that little tweedle “I’m listening” prompt and a Text-To-Majel-Barrett library. Thing is, on the Enterprise, it always correctly worked. If you asked it for a statement of fact you’d get a quote out of a database. Gemini will just make shit up that sounds plausible.

The all-new Ikea Cjardboord.