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.”

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.

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.

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.

Have you ever noticed how everyone going slower than you on the highway is an idiot and everyone going faster than you is a maniac?

…that’s why she uses clam shells.

The most perfectly cast part in all of cinema.

Candy Crush ads are on the home screens of smart phones. Pay the carrier to include it in their bloatware, job done.

Nintendo ran an ad for the Gameboy Pocket that showed the outline of a Gameboy printing through the back pocket of a pair of jeans with the slogan “KEEP IT IN YOUR PANTS.”

Sex sells. Video game ads have featured pretty girls since video game ads. You can go back to the late 70’s early 80’s and find an entire genre of ads that boil down to “pretty girl stands next to arcade cabinet.”

But then the entire 90’s happened, and there was a huge set of ads that seemed to say “play video games instead of having sex.” Which is…weird, right? Almost all products sold to young men are sold on the promise of attracting women. Show man with product, show woman having interest in the man with product, “Product: It Makes You Fuckable.^TM” Video games postured themselves as something to do instead of your girlfriend or even more interesting than chicks. An ad for a 16-bit console featured a full-page centerfold with a few screenshots of video games scattered around with the slogan “If you look closely, there’s a beautiful naked woman on this page.”

I like how the cat isn’t wearing it for the injection photo.