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.

Same era iirc. Right before Altavista and Lycos, I believe.

And there is so much to that series of books in terms of complex topics that are dealt with in subtle ways that I don’t understand how they think it is Y/A.

They are constantly adding levels too.

Edit: maps to levels

Honestly it is way better on PC. I don’t think the controls translate very well to touch screen. It gets pretty damn hard, and I don’t think I’ve ever been able to get very far on phone or tablet. That could be a me thing, though. The game is amazing nonetheless.

I am not autistic, but I have pretty severe misophonia. Sand paper is the worst. Just thinking about it is uncomfortable.

Does having incredibly mid tits and being a metal head with a punk rock battle jacket count?

I remember when no kind of mobile computing was available to anyone other than corporate execs.

No, I’m sorry but those kiosks are horrible ideas. All of those places have food that you are expected to eat with your hands. You think phone screens are gross? Try a public touch screen. I have yet to see anyone other than myself wash their hands (or even just use hand sanitizer ffs) after or before using one of those kiosks. They are likely responsible for who knows how many infections.

All of that is ontop of making what should be a 20 second interaction into (at times) multiple minutes even for someone that knows how to operate/navigate them as they constantly try to needlessly upsell things while forcing you to move your hand across the entire height of the thing to make sure you spend the maximum amount of time being advertised to. They need to go away.

I have to be frank here - no matter how cool this story may be, I was unable to make it very far because of the poor (read: complete lack of) capitalization and punctuation. It might be a me problem, but these things combined with it being a screenshot made this impossible to read without a headache.

Everyone involved are giants and that is a contra bass.

I understand how to edit posts. Please re-read and get back to me about the implied intent of that comment.

I honestly had no idea as to this before I saw a previous post. That’s how AMD markets this thing, though. I’d be very appreciative as to how I can edit this post in order for it to make sense to a wider audience.

It’s a weird feeling. They are by all standards the only gpu/chip manufacturer that has a good OSS series of drivers for Linux. They’ve gathered a lot of good will over the decades, and suddenly pull this very unreported thing because very few know about it.

It’s a creative suite made by AMD. They are removing the free option for Linux.