Usenet is still useful for… other things 🏴‍☠️

I still post on Wil Wheaton’s old phpBB forum from time to time. Nobody else does, though. :(

I had a small store with one of these in the window and for what it does it’s very good

Who does this guy think he is? Gandhi?

Looks like it’s shaped for an un-grounded electrical cord. Which is not something I’d want to use with a hedge trimmer.

What’d you do this weekend? If it takes more than two sentences to describe it to me I’ll stop caring and just talk about myself. I’m not here to learn about you, just drown out the incessant ticking of my own mortality.

Which is a great reason to at least familiarize yourself with it. It’s the lingua franca of text editors.

I tend to work on customer systems where I’m not allowed to install anything. I’ve yet to encounter one that doesn’t have vi installed, but I’ve seen a few without nano.

Think of it like an engine: The mechanics working on the engine aren’t the engineers designing the thing.

Sort of, but aimed more at general purpose computing rather than gaming

How would y’all feel if Valve started selling PCs with their flavor of Linux on it?

The Soviets were complete jackasses to their allies. For example, they refused to allow American bombers to launch raids on Japan from eastern Russia, forcing the Allies to do a brutal island-hopping campaign to get them within range.

Then, when a few B-29s were too damaged to make the long flight back to the island and diverted to Russia, they confiscated the planes and imprisoned their crews until the end of the war.

Then, after the war, they dismantled two of the planes so they could figure out how to build a good airplane and claimed it as their own and called it the Tu-4.

Oh, and they also threw Andrei Tupolev into a gulag because he couldn’t meet Stalin’s insane demands.

I hope this post isn’t how I find out about MC Bat Commander

First, a dozen eggs don’t cost twelve dollars.

Second, in America the currency indicator comes before the number.

Imagine even having a Windows partition.

Gross.

Comparing phones on specifications when both operating systems are different is kinda stupid. I guarantee most people don’t care about refresh rates or data transfer speeds.

Also, not a meme.

The only way he stops this is if a bunch of hipsters go there ironically to have the worst time ever.

It’s not pride, it’s just that I know how to use it really well and that makes it easy for me to use.

But it’s really only for viewing files on another system over SSH. For local work I use Sublime Text

Golden Horde 2: Moscow Boogaloo

Prior to Steve coming back Apple had a ton of different product lines. You had three or four models of Performa, then two different lines of Power Macs, three different Powerbooks, and even some servers. This wasted a ton of effort and resources maintaining all these product lines.

Steve divided the segments in to four quadrants on two axes: Portable vs. Desktop and Consumer vs. Professional. I think if they’d have started with simplifying their product line there might still be a market for the clones.