You mean you ran Ubuntu Server and found it slow?! That’s amazing, specially back then. Truly a potato.

On a potato you were supposed to use Xubuntu or Lubuntu, not Gnome.

We call them “tlacuaches” in Mexico, from the Nahuatl tlacuatzin. According to their mithology, it stole the god’s fire, and brought it to the humans in its tail, that’s why it stayed furless.

Do you want to French kiss it now?

More like best-iality, amirite?

Its company property, you don’t go putting stickers on company printers or the walls of your office.

And it’s not about resale value, it’s about corporate and professional image. We’re free to destructively mod our personal equipments, but not those of others.

I believe the 3D chatbot will have more emotions.

Recently spent almost four hours waiting for Windows Update on a brand-new PC. It wasn’t even apparent how long it would take, just kept grinding, rebooting, and grinding again.

For a three-decade OS that many bright programmers have worked on, Windows update sucks royally.

My brain made a tiny satisfaction reaction after learning about this.

Oh, we’re a bit bad at spelling. We meant “thongs”, so they won’t get stuck when they breach to breathe or snipe.

That was very, very likely what the parent comment meant. The correction was unnecessary.

That’s because swamp-ass cat was rejected.

If mods know what their rules mean, they could describe them more clearly so it doesn’t become a philosophical debate.

For example, “Zero politics allowed”, or “No politics without science as the main theme”.

Somewhere I read that bread has most of the essential nutrients for humans, except for vitamin C. That would mean that prisoners who were sentenced to bread and water could last many years if they had fruit occasionally.

I guess the kind of bread, and the reduced caloric needs of prisoners, play a huge role here.

Curling is one of the goofiest looking professional sports. It’s like a joke that went too far to reveal it.

Some continuous glucose monitors are MRI-safe, and they keep working after it. Just adding another data point.

It’s not mythology, testing was crucial so you wouldn’t ship a broken cartridge, which was very costly than a patch download. It made financial sense to test throughly, and more than that, develop carefully.

I think the only guys that made a working game in a week were Atari VCS developers, and IMO it wa a combination of the limited hardware, and the skill of a few legendary programmers.

Today we get games that dwarf the entire software stack of computers decades ago, but they’re made loosely, knowing they’ll ship broken and need patch after patch until it doesn’t make financial sense, and then they’re abandoned.

My most recent experience is Fallout 76 on Steam, and by god it is a bag of bugs despite being the bread winner of the franchise. For example, a long-standing bug is that once it starts, and offers to press any button to sign in, you have to wait about a minute before doing that, otherwise it will likely hang. This has existed since launch, and after numerous patches it hasn’t been addressed yet.

It doesn’t mean “never improve”, though.

Since I saw that primates have a sense of humor, things like this don’t surprise me as much, because it’s not like they’re similar to us, it’s that we are very similar to them. It’s natural to share many traits.

Seems they’re working on that https://wiki.opennic.org/opennic/tls

I’ve always wondered if cells created viruses, or if viruses are a natural consequence of complex genetics. They look so useless, having no need to reproduce, yet killing cells to do it uncontrollably. They don’t even feed, what is their purpose?