Ngl my partner put a dishwasher pod on the counter the other day and I genuinely thought it was candy for an uncomfortably long second or so.

Doesn’t show charge cycles for me, sadly. Samsung A52

Yeah I don’t buy 400m either.

Speaking from a university perspective - we’ve been scaling back our computer labs a fair bit, as there’s a lot of people with personal laptops and tablets now. Almost half our former workstations are now eliminated or BYOD.

So a lot of Windows machines are just gone.

If this were Facebook I would say this is a bot harvesting user locations for advertising profiles…

Unless you use zram. Compressing pages is pretty useful as an intermediate stage.

Their active hostility toward Linux users has put me off them pretty much permanently. If they made a big push toward Linux support, I might look at them more favourably.

They clearly don’t want me as a customer: fuck 'em.

They skipped step one of enshittification. You’ve got to GET the customers before you can leverage them against your suppliers.

Thank goodness for distro repositories with somewhat-vetted software.

Sometimes I’m like “This is the perfect and logical place to put this item, this is where the item can live from now on.” and then it’s gone.

I hear “Yahoo Answers” is available.

Walk into computer lab. “DISREGARD PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS FORMAT C DRIVE”

Well, that’s one way to create a murderous AI. I suddenly understand why Hal wanted to kill everyone. I would, too.

I don’t think that applies since /* will just glob out to all the filenames in /

Neutrons?

Not all DNS hosts support that. Webnames.ca, looking at you…

Also my workplace hosts their own dns and I think it will be a cold day in hell before they let me do automated updates.

In The Long Dark, making an improvised axe is more a midgame item. Gotta find a forge and a heavy hammer, then enough coal. Not to mention stocking up food and water for the wait while you heat it up and craft it.

It’s not even that it’s low-tech. Tape is high-tech, it’s been updated over the years. LTO10s are targeting 36TB of data per tape.

It’s the pig-ignorant newbies thinking “hurr durr tapes are 1970s tech”. Hard drives are also 1970s tech.

They have their advantages and disadvantages, is all. They’re not well suited for situations where you can’t guarantee a clean room (or enclosed tape reader), for instance, since the tape medium is exposed to the air. Dust can mess it up REAL good.

But for some situations, it’s indispensable.

Yeah, we’ve got on-prem cloud hosting at a university, and moving away from VMware is an ongoing process. Still. Two, three years after the writing was on the wall. They’d rather pay the Danegeld.

Or they’ll just pay the extra money and avoid all that.