And then of course, the least fun part of that era, the guys who would bring their machines back weekly despite very stern warnings to stop visiting “those sites”.

Hey, they were good for business lol

Can confirm 100%.

During Vista’s heyday, I worked in a PC repair shop. All the ones that came in because “Vista sucks” were all Walmart specials with the bare minimum 512 MB RAM and crappy, bottom-of-the-barrel Seagate HDDs.

The thing would start thrashing as soon it booted with the default assortment of bloatware. By the time they brought it in, the HDD was in rough shape which made the thrashing even worse.

Fix was always to upgrade the RAM and, most often, replace the dying Seagate drive with a good one. Removing the bloatware helped as well once the root problems were addressed.

The UAC stuff was also annoying, but those could be tuned.

Security tip: Never post your home address on social media.

At least bee meetings are also dance parties.

Oops!

Yeah, everything’s dropping. I first noticed it when my push failed.

Oh, I run my own Gogs server internally, but for collaboration, we all use Github.

We should do that. lol

🤦‍♂️😆

Didn’t even catch that in the screenshot. lol

Sadly, it’s a stupid dependency of a lot of things.

Just ran npm explain is-number on one of my projects, and it’s a dependency of to-regex-range which is a dependency of fill-range which is a dependency of…and so on up the chain.

I was hoping I wouldn’t find that in there, but alas, it is.

Mom, can we stop and get some Python?

No, we have Python at home.

Python at home…

major record labels consider it a parasitic threat

Well, they would know. Takes one to know one.

What do record labels even do anymore? Broadcast radio is dying and even when it was less dead, it was the same 100 payola songs on repeat. It’s never been cheaper or easier to self-record and publish, and there are all kinds of online platforms artists can use to distribute their work and get paid.

Hell, the last few new artists I’ve found were from YouTube/Spotify/Band Camp and had Patreon accounts.

The music industry needs to die off already.

If I ever start a religion, those will be the five pillars and the “saints” who embody them.

“This page intentionally left blank.”

(turns to next page)

“This one was an accident”

No. It’s a known, long-term persistent troll. They hop around from instance to instance (ones that have open signups).

Upvoted because it’s still funny, but I hate to be that guy: technically it doesn’t since DRAM is volatile storage.

Yep, though “Debian Stable” is a bit redundant lol.

Ouch! 😆

Debian 🤘

Nice try Microsoft

That’s the most insulting thing anyone has ever said to me. 😆