There was a checkbox to mute the noise on the dialer. We had 2 phone lines, so I’ve been terminally online since windows 3.11, and I very rarely heard heard the dial up noise

The 4 freedoms of open source per RMS apparently dont include calling your project whatever you want to call it. You have to run that past him.

Sometimes games ship updates that mess with the game. I have over 20,000 hours in WoW. But my play habits from over almost 2 decades ago don’t reflect the current quality of the game.

And some people compulsively play games they don’t enjoy because “once I get to the next thing, it will finally be fun!” And maybe this person had an awakening and realized that they will never get there… Or after this amount of time had a drastic change of heart.

And some people leave games open when they aren’t playing.

I’m not saying this is normal or necessarily healthy, but it’s not unfeasible.

“Well I bet your power bill went way up!” Maybe. But not by as much as my gas station bill went down.

I get conventional mail marked up like it is from the manufacturer claiming my warranty is expiring.

With the added fun bonus that all the things they claim to cover are engine related, and my car is an EV with no engine.

The original is an ad for a Posturite mouse. Then reddit added the mouse. then someone else added saddam.

I know someone who got to interview him once. He spent the whole time complaining about how he never wanted to be a celebrity and just wanted to do the science part of the job and that he hated having to do interviews and talk to the public.

They wound up obviously having no good material from the interview and didn’t have anything to run. It was a very “don’t meet your heroes” moment for my friend.

But yeah, according to himself, he DOESN’T want to share science or educate. It’s a burden to him.

When you’re a trans teen from OK getting beaten to death by classmates, the culture war feels a lot more urgent to focus on in the moment. Survival isn’t something you can be passive about.

Some people partake in the culture war as part of manipulation by the rich… Some people are forced into it by defending themselves from the first group. And some people are compelled into it to protect the second group.

While you’re not wrong about how we got here, it feels like it would be too easy for one side of the culture war to spin this as “Ignore my bigotry, Wall St is the real enemy!”

He saw himself having an epiphany about privilege in general, so he had to swerve and add race into the mix so he could say a true (albeit unrelated) thing and miss the point.

It’s like when anti BLM people say “All lives matter” … Sure, all lives DO matter, but they’re intentionally missing the point, so they don’t have to acknowledge that police brutality disproportionately affects black lives.

Saying unrelated “true” things to undermine the original statement is a bit telling about intentions.

My dad once told me my mom didnt feel safe walking alone at night in the neighborhood and asked if I felt the same. I said I didnt feel any concerns, but added the caveat that Im not a small woman, and Im a large man.

He paused for a minute, nodded and said “that makes sense.” Then after another few seconds goes “That’s not white privilege.”

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

And with brother there is a “ignore low toner warning” option that lets you keep printing until the toner is actually gone.