JWBananas

Then as smart phones took off, all the companies quadrupled down on the walled garden idea

Yahoo and MSN had interop before smartphones existed. AIM and Google Talk (Jabber) as well.

When smart phones took off, Facebook Messenger actually had Jabber support (which also gave it interop with AIM and Google Talk).

The consolidation and walled gardens unfortunately came back later.

Nickelback

in “Russia”

See also: John Oliver’s take from 6 years ago

https://youtu.be/GvtNyOzGogc?si=YHabkkb1NZ8aGROS

Fighter pilot reflexes

Agreed. See also: Benghazi, Hunter Biden, etc.

We have a bad habit of gliding down the slippery slope.

We tried that once. It didn’t go so well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism

They do. By default the system partition is straight up mounted read-only.

Not that it really matters, but the commercial is for Old El Paso.

Is that… ICQ? Why?

Powell has the power to push exactly one button.

#RED ALARM!!!

Mass is mass

They banned flavored pods. That’s why disposables took off. Those are banned now too, but enforcement is basically non-existent at the federal level.

besides memory leaks

Have you tried auto memory reclaim yet?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-subsystem-for-linux-september-2023-update/#:~:text=Automatic memory reclaim&text=When this is set to,you’re not using it!

Do you want to talk about it?

The customary reply is “Thanks! I’ll add it to my list”

That’s a funny way to say “Have you opened a ticket?”

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/linux-distros-are-about-to-get-a-killer-windows-feature-the-blue-screen-of-death/#:~:text=The systemd-bsod component is,photo or write it down.

What a great idea! They should automate something like that! Maybe they could call it System Restore?

https://www.silentinstall.org/msiexec