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

I thought it weird how they named ETHZ.

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.

My ex is the most infuriating type of cognitive dissonance I’ve ever experienced. She’s quite liberal, but she voted for Trump in 2016 (we were divorced by election day) because she thought he was “fun.”

More frustrations ensued. She’d tell the boys (6 and 7 when we met) about how often she skipped school. I was livid. And she’s shocked – SHOCKED – that one of them dropped out of high school years later.

Atop all this, she was very clear in her praise for them coming up with her ideas. So proud that she’d raised them not to think on their own.

It’s not just conservatives.

That’s roughly what I was going to say.

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