Also, you can “install” things like Discord into a webapp and when you launch it it looks and behaves just like regular old discord, but never makes you wait through those annoying installation screens.

The words “billionaire run” imply that Russian state media is not run by billionaires.

This is timely. I just read a fantastic article all about how Mary becoming a spinster without George probably isn’t as goofy (or as overtly sexist) as it seems. Quite a thought provoking article.

Same here, I got hired as a “webmaster” at a place that had been using some Yahoo web services for their website and they had dialup Internet accounts for everybody in the office. For the same money I got them access to a fractional T1 and set up a server on an old 486 gathering dust in the back room. We served up their webpages from in-house. They thought I was a god, I was just a big fat resume-padded liar who stayed up reading Usenet all night lol. Those were the days and I’ll never forget that distro:

“Chilling moment”

They never stop trying to convince us, do they? This is only chilling if you’re an ultrawealthy sack of shit.

Oh man I did not need to know that.

HAL did nothing wrong.

I like JavaScript a lot and would be excited by its use in this context.

Can someone explain to me why Rust enthusiasts are so evangelical about it? I get that it’s memory safe, OK - super great. But rewriting a stable, small-but-important legacy tool doesn’t seem like a good place to prove its worth. Surely there are a million better places? And yet when I heard about this, it totally seemed to track. I’ve never touched Rust but I already find its proponents to be strangely focused on it. I never felt such religious zeal with regard to a programming language.

I partially switched to Linux this week, I had an older Windows machine just laying around so I decided to install Linux (I went with Mint) sit it next to my regular Windows machine and set up a switch to easily switch between them. That way if I really need Windows, I still have it. I don’t think I will.

I’m still configuring the (now Linux) machine and getting everything like I like it, and all I keep wondering is why I didn’t try this sooner. There are so many cool things (like sftp right in the File Manager? right on). I have no complaints.

Steam has run every game I’ve tried with only minor tweaks (switching to recommended Proton versions for each game, basically). Gaming is not a problem on Linux anymore. I’ve run old games (Torchlight II, Portal 2, Skyrim) and new games (Oblivion Remastered, Baldur’s Gate) and the only problem has been my shit-ass video card just can’t run them basically (1050Ti, time to upgrade, lol).

A little while doing all this and I’ll convert the Windows machine to Linux and be rid of Windows altogether. Before the end of the year, hopefully. Everyone should give it a try.

I had downloaded the full (no pictures) Wikipedia earlier this year for exactly this reason. This thread told me about kiwix, which is awesome, so I downloaded the “Wikipedia .08” using kiwix, which is the best 45,000 articles from Wikipedia with pictures and it’s 7G, very manageable, has most topics anyone would care about.

I have less than no use for his religion/politics, but his shows are a lot of fun and he (thankfully) keeps that shit completely out of them. For such an old dude, you’d think he wouldn’t be able to still be such an entertainer, but his shows are wild - giant monsters, huge sets, pyrotechnics - a lot of fun.

Also, damn - he really does look like an old haggard Steve Carrell.

Old school. Also the flip side:

sudo tail -f /<path to server>/error.log

CSS isn’t a programming language. Programming languages are logical, follow sensible rules and provide consistent output.

Just in time for Windows to choke off and die.

You can tell it’s legit, because it says Vi.

ahahaha oh come on, the comment was clearly a joke. To be honest, I’d be far more interested in gothly serious sam on the left.

Never, ever, do what I do because it’s very dangerous and always a horrible idea:

Kill Windows Update

Ah, you’re a troll. I see. Blocked.

So all you’ve mustered is some lame-ass ad-hominem? Have a good day