I admire your optimism!

especially with methanol.

I’ve got fedora on there right now, but even with the surface-linux kernel the digitizer doesn’t quite work and it’d be nice to have cameras. I originally bought the damn thing to take notes and read PDFs. In hindsight I should have just bought a damn iPad.

Finally, I can use my surface pro 7 again

third party drivers

Oh I guess it runs like ass because it’s just a bad OS

oi m8 u got a loicence fuh that’ VEE PEE ENN?

RFC 1149, IP Over Avian Character.

or public libraries but that’s not as funny

For once ADHD preventing me from completing a migration is a boon, I guess I’ll move back to keepass

Microwave em for 2 seconds. It won’t heat up the metal bits in plastic frames enough to cause damage but it’ll fry an IC.

Without the industrial revolution I wouldn’t even exist; setting aside the butterfly effect of my parents never having met because they’re from different parts of the country for a moment I owe my existence to modern medicine, which would not exist without industrialization.

You kidding? This person used to be a good customer and now they dont buy anything! This is very contextual

Stop parking your car in the river then sheesh

Well if they called it Steam Controller 2 what would they call the next one?

I can think of a couple

• expectation management: sometimes call volume is genuinely high, and if you set a floor at say 10 minutes it only feels like a 5 minute difference if the caller’s actual wait time is 15
• engineering downtime to allow agents time to complete paperwork or catch up on emails
• make us all so annoyed with the process of waiting in line we welcome AI agents as liberators

Every capital improvement project is subject to environmental review and street works have a 95% chance to go over time and over budget. Then the population blames you personally and it’s game over.

you could do that in XP I’m pretty sure. Can you not do that in 11?

I could see donating to your favorite terminal emulator. cool-retro-term is, well, pretty cool.

Randall Munroe loves to do these “x was closer to y than today” comparisons and while they’re interesting they dont help with the existential thinking