Burying the small amount of waste in a stable non-actively forming mountain for a few thousand years is 1000x better than burning things and putting them into the air.

I plug in an external drive every so often and drag and drop parts of my home dir into it like it’s 1997. I’m not running a data center here. The boomer method is good enough and I don’t do anything important enough to warrant going all out with professional snapshot based backup solutions and stuff. And I only save personal documents, media, and custom config files. Everything else is replaceable.

I just used Emacs a little while ago. A piece of software that’s been supported since fucking 1985. There is no technical reason for Windows 11 not to work on a machine that’s only a few years old and ran 10 just fine. It’s literally still the same NT kernel. In the past, you could still upgrade, and your computer might slow down and struggle a bit to run the newer OS, but it did run. This time, for the first time, they are forcibly cutting off older PCs for no good reason other than the TPM bullshit.

Spit out that corporate Kool aid.

Emergency shutdown link hidden behind UI menu after UI menu and constantly changing locations weekly.

He actually said “Micheal Bolton” instead of John. 😂

“You know, you can just call me Mike…”

Death stare from the Bobs

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use “old internet” when bots were more obvious

This is going to become a valued commodity like pre-atomic low background steel, isn’t it?

It’s a step up, many people are still driving shitboxes from the USSR era.

While open-sourcing could help some AeroGardens maintain its value and better avoid becoming e-waste, there’s also risk of the devices being hacked for alternative purposes that Scotts Miracle-Gro may not want to be associated with.

As if people don’t hack proprietary firmwares with shitty security all the time? Do they not get that more often than not, it will be more secure if open sourced?

I think they don’t do these things out of a fear of their stuff being exploited, they do it in case some time in the future they can somehow extract more profit out of it. They sit on it for decades like Nintendo and their 80s games or trade the IP and patents around from company to company.

Do you like modern tech? Do you like the chips in your device you’re using to comment right now? You can thank the space industry. Without Apollo we would still be 30 years behind in integrated circuit technology.

Plus it’ll make it easier to quickly restack everything for multiple launches, for stuff like orbital assembly and refueling. We’ll be able to replace the ISS in a week with this thing, once they get a small workhorse fleet going.

Yes, it’s called a circlejerk. Happens on many forums where people agree on something. It’s not that serious.

You seem to misunderstand. Here on the Fediverse, Linux users are NOT such a minority as on the rest of the Internet. Most people here do not need “converting”. They already have. Again, you’re not on Reddit or Twitter. You are literally surrounded by open source enthusiasts.

I bought a copy of Corel Linux in 2001 at a USAF base exchange because I was a broke airman and was building my first homebuilt PC and didn’t want to shell out money for Windows, and I didn’t have Internet to pirate it in the dorms (this was the days of no wifi and pay as you go Internet cafes). I thought it’d be JUST like Windows, and I could get shit done, and the differences were just like those between Mac/PC. Just a different interface.

Boy was I wrong. It sucked balls. I didn’t pick up Linux again until Ubuntu in 2006. Now I daily drive Debian. Oh well, at least it came with an inflatable penguin.

I use KDE because it has a cute dragon instead of a stinky foot.

So many things they could target that’s related to the cause but they go for the fucking IA? Might as well burn down an orphanage. This is fucked up.

In the future, there are no potholes or imperfections of any kind. The ground and buildings are smooth, shiny, and constantly maintained to perfection somehow. Everything looks like a starship.

In a world of satellites, advanced air forces, guided missiles, drones, etc, a couple spiky things on the ground seems very medieval.

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Yes, if they are working with the thief. I’m dumb. It’s still early.