I guess I need to give steam another try. I walked away from it in 2020. I haven’t logged in once in all that time due to the cheaters making nearly every FPS unplayable.

I have the stove timer plus two others nearby. Adapt and overcome.

West Taiwan can make any claims they want.

I owned that domain once.

Literally is the new figuratively?

I have a old box running armbian and octoprint. Works just fine to allow me to monitor my prints.

I traveled to the city where I was born recently. Its the first time I’ve been there in twenty years that I haven’t felt anxiety making the trip. The reason is simple. My parents died last year and now that I know I’m not going to run into them I’m fine.

I think if a being like lucifer exist and is truly evil then it has tricked these ‘christians’ in to worshiping it instead of the god.

I have two sets of sheets. Adapt and overcome.

AI Jesus will tell you to switch to a eastern religion.

Organic maps has already replaced everything else on my mobile devices.

Something organic will replace it.

This is what happens when you go full ‘reality’ and abandon your core products.

I hardly noticed. When I look at the shit companies that are affected I’m happy I’m not their customer.

Yup, I’m right about you.

Thank you for that pointless attempt at comparison. They never changed the name of gif nor the pronunciation of it.

I was young in the late 80’s and it was all new. I had a IBM AT, a bell 300 baud modem and a bluebox. The internet wasn’t really much at that point. We used tymnet nodes to access compuserve and some BBS. It was the best shit ever. Gif was a incredible improvement over bmp and tiff. I had two 20meg hard drives and converting to gif saved me a huge amount of space :).

The only reason anyone knows of the gif format is due to unisys backing off their royalty push in 94. A few years before there was a compression standard. The files were .arc. They made a big play at getting the BBS systems in the country to pay for using it and in less than a month they all switched to zip. You have of course heard of zip but arc died a quick death for being pushy. It was just a few years before unisys went after mosaic. It didn’t get very far because it triggered a similar action and it was clear gif wasn’t going to get much. They went after a few corporations but largely left the fledgling browsers alone.

No one questioned the name when they presented it. No one argued it because it wasn’t a problem. This whole pronunciation thing is really quite silly. It goes right along side other silly things such as which way the toilet paper goes on a roller. When kids these days say it wrong I leave it uncommented but invariably when I pronounce it correctly in a crowd of them one will attempt to correct me and trigger a “boomersplain” of exactly why they are incorrect. I give them the history of it until their eyes glaze over. Which is also fun.

Only I’m not a boomer. I’m a member of the meh generation.

Sometime around 2010 was the first time I encountered someone who was foaming at the mouth certain about how I was saying it wrong. Considering by that time I had know about the file format for twenty years I dismissed their error. Its really funny watching all these people making fools out of themselves in defense of getting it wrong. The very first article I read about the format specifically showed the pronunciation. All in all I think its stupid how they will not or can not accept they got it wrong. Instead they call me a boomer or make some lame argument that the author and the company that came up with it. The company that owned it don’t get to decide what to call it. I dive in every time this comes up as its entertaining watching all these ‘fetuses’ get it wrong.

I was around before they existed as well. I remember reading a article about the new format and dialing into CompuServe in 1988 and downloading the first compiler and decoders for it. I remember how the article specifically showed the pronunciation. I know I say it correctly as the author and unisys intended. I remember when unisys was butthurt in 94 and tried to charge the whole world wide web for it and how that failed. I remember it all so it doesn’t matter if you or anyone else got it wrong.

I didn’t.

Okay Fetus but

Nope, try again.