The amount of energy wasted in America for all the houses with AC they have, could have propelled an entire society to Mars.

Time 2 years top, there will be an AI that converts perfectly COBOL into JavaScript.

Damn, should I load the mouse driver or the CD-ROM driver? If I load both, I can't run strike commander!

With dos 5.x I started creating some fancy auroexec menu at boot that switches between several configurations depending if I wanted to run windows, need a lot of xms or a big chunk of Ems (640k was NOT enough for everything).

It was somehow fun.

But at least, if something is not working, it was entirely your fault. Now? It's probably windows update who fucked up something you desperately need right now.

I always say "if you look at it from the current government point of view, Luke Skywalker was just a terrorist."

That's fair, but then stop using the "federation is like email" propaganda.

Brilliant, all the propaganda about "join us, the fediverse is like email" gone to shit. More like "it's like email, but if you email ends with @hotmail.com we will block your messages".

I agree with the sentiment, not with these actions, instead of giving meta users a way to break free, we built a wall between us and them, who have way more content, because we're afraid of Zuck stealing our data, which is public and he already done.

That's absolutely in your right to do so.

Would you mind if I ask you what did I say that's considered an asshole move?

Is there a way to technically deliver an unbroken user experience to a thread user without privacy issues?

That's what I do usually, the aisle is already full of Italians.

I stand up because staying seated for 2 hours is uncomfortable (and probably unhealthy), fight me.