I love how we’ve turned into an advertising economy while simultaneously paying such low wages that only a small fraction of the country has disposable income. I’m in my mid-40s, so I’ve aged out of the enticing demographic, but ads are just pointless to me. I eat, I drink, I pay for car insurance and internet, and after that, well … I generally have $6.

Which I’m not spending on a fucking side of fries.

Car culture has somehow been subsumed into the “rugged individualism” umbrella. I recall one instance where I had to call my host family for a ride, but otherwise, we were all able to get around on transit.

You get to a bigger city, and now you have trams. This is my favourite way to travel in town. They’re quiet, reliable, and don’t hinder vehicle traffic. Even better is they get priority lights so that they aren’t dealing with turning vehicles at each signaled intersection.

Oops, the battery ran out. Hope we’re not over somewhere populated! The tech just isn’t ready until we have Mr. Fusion.

I have no idea what function this purchase serves. Moltbook seems like Pogs with a shorter shelf life.

Depends how many other vehicles are “up in the sky.”

When I was a student in Germany, I lived in a Dorf of some 700 people, 10km from the school in the “big” city – Hameln. If the weather was good, I’d bike to school through wheat fields. If it was bad, the Stadtkreis (regional government, but not state level; roughly akin to a county) had regular bus service to get into town.

Once in Hameln, wheels were rare. All of downtown was a pedestrian zone, and where that ended was about a five-minute walk from the train station. At which point I could take a regional train to Hannover, and from there, an ICE (not the bad one, the Intercity Express) that could get me to France or Switzerland in only a few hours, without any customs or airport bullshit. And the trains were, of course, all electric, and ran on time (leave it to the Germans!).

This was 30 years ago, and we’re still trying to figure out basic transport here that has been in use for decades.

Multipass!

God forbid we mentor new people.

It’s all fun and games until someone loses a school.

I’d like to go back to KDE Neon, but it doesn’t play nice with thermals on my Surface.

(and I totally expect you to be a Linux user … why haven’t you bragged about using Arch yet?)

Having been the managing editor of my school paper, I’m not surprised. Athletes got away with all sorts of shit even before AI.

I knew someone was going to come back with Red Hat. I just didn’t expect it to be you!

We don’t talk about 80085. Who the hell turns their calculator upside down now?

It’s a bit crazy to think about how things have changed. When I was a kid, the only computer in the house that was online was in the office/living room, so my parents could walk past at any time and see what I was up to. This was in the MSN beta days, and I was usually in teen chat, which, given the beta, meant that we were all teens whose parents had gotten prerelease Win95 discs (actually, in my case, it was the head of my high school math department who “loaned” me his CD).

As a result, it was pretty chill. Having your phone at all hours and no oversight seems an absurd situation.

Wasn’t it Vatican II that finally allowed Catholic services in local languages instead of Latin? That really wasn’t long ago in the grand scheme.

Of course you do.

Who the hell is “selling” Linux?

I’m confident in my role here. I think I’ve gotten that accusation once, and it was quickly swatted back not by me, but rather people who’d seen my posts over the years.

I hope I’ve been sufficiently janky for you with my posts.

Which is great for one application, but two spaces after each period would be hell to edit down to AP Style.

I mean, Ctrl+H and switching two spaces to one is easily doable, but that’s not where I want to start the editing process.