A problem I’ve had is people using those Google share links. I keep yelling them that I’m not clicking that link no matter how funny or interesting it may be.

I haven’t had a positive experience with an invidious instance in years. They are usually either down or horribly slow for me.

I don’t think that it is directly aimed at MAGA (but also kinda). It is a link to talking points to help people you may care about leaving the cult.

Same with ships.

And, spoiler alert; even if you manage to get land with water access, you are going to go through hell to get the rights to use that water in any meaningful way. Try something as simple as rain water collection with mout the rights? Best case is a massive fine.

He is still better known for being an absolute asshole and punching people that did not deserve it.

It’s fun until you wind up with a rooster that has made it his life’s mission attacking you. Those spurs fucking hurt.

Beat meat to it.

I have a real question here. Loops is on the fediverse. Can you not embed video from there, or is OP unwilling to do that for whatever reason?

I still have my cloth EverQuest maps framed on the wall.

30, when it was in alpha, and I still play it today.

I think it needs to be said that the timing of this study is relevant. 30+ years ago, it may have said that liberals die more often for the same reason. The woo woo healing crystals hippy to MAHA pipeline is very real, and it has exactly the same cause.

I think that might be the time of release, since that was the style at the time. It is pretty bleak like Evangelion, though.

Blue Gender. That isn’t a deep cut, it’s a mortal wound. I often think I am the only one that has ever seen it.

And the capability of those computer labs was purely educational (at least on paper, little shits like me were breaking the networks regularly, but that happens now as well).

If you were unaware, this is a baseline for a micro generation sometimes called the Oregan Trail generation (or Xennials). I’m in that cohort myself. My district was well-funded though and by the time I was in late high school, the computer lab looked like this.

Is this referring to computer labs in schools in general? This is at least Win 95 (and the school system didn’t bother to update things in 98), so I would have been in high school with these, and thinking back we had very similar machines. I do kind of miss it because my friends and I had setup a hidden series of IRC servers on a few PCs. So, while we were supposed to be learning to type, we’d just chat. In retrospect, it was a good idea that was poorly implemented (people will eventually get around anything that they have physical access to) but the modern idea of kids in schools just having a ChromeBook, tablet, phone, or w/e is kind of fucked up. We had access to the computer lab for 1 period a day vs. the modern 24/7.

I think that in the end my real opinion is that I don’t miss this, I miss my friends and I testing the limits of the security for both network and individual PC. We did some wild stuff with our TI-83s. One of my friends from that time was a certified Machine God and wrote an assembly program for his TI that would allow him (and by extension us) to surreptitiously plug in our calculators to those PCs via serial and effectively “dial out” bypassing the restrictions. It was a wild time.

I have been on Linux for years now, but known hardware is the reason why things will tend to break less often with driver updates, and updates in general. With a PC that gets hardware upgrades semi regularly, that is much more of an issue in my experience.

I was going to mention that driver support for known hardware is pretty huge. I am not a tinkerer at all, so I personally find this appealing.