I wish I had more upvotes to give, you get one alone for the Reel Big Fish reference. But I wholeheartedly agree with the rest of your comment. Enshittification has taken over the whole world, everything is made to be replaced, nothing is made to be repaired anymore. Interfaces are about capturing as much of your time as possible and collecting as much data as possible. You can’t own software anymore, just subscribe.

I can’t believe people are accepting all this. I’m a greybeard engineer/architect so I keep replacing services with my own, and we’re here on the fediverse to push back, but we’re in the minority. Something’s gonna break soon…

My god cat with disturbingly human lips, the internet is back.

Seriously, I love it. Correct amount of humor and functionality. I’m on the road but I’ll be signing up for sure.

I’m on year 9 of my 10 year car plan. Current vehicle is supposed to become the kidmobile and I planned on a new one.

I won’t buy a new car though. If I do replace mine, it will be a used, unconnected car. I am so tired of iPads on wheels.

I will admit, when the first mentions of it came out, and it was going to be this cheap, capable, all-electric futuremachine, I was tempted to put down a deposit. At first I thought the design was functional, to keep manufacturing cheap and have a durable, Midwest-proof vehicle between the stainless and aluminum.

It turned out to be 100% the opposite of what I had imagined, so thankfully figured I’d wait. Decided keep my 10 year old car until it NEEDS replacement (which it does not).

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See, the problem with this line of thinking is that it took thought, and reasoning and intelligence. You are supposed to just listen to what the teevee and the real important people, the influencers, tell you. That’s the only way to get to the real truthiness of these situations.

good point. It still makes me smile how that one went down. imagine if we were all on f’ing itanium instead.

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it honestly could have been a 10mb, I don’t even remember. only thing I really do remember is thinking it was interesting how it used the floppy and second cable, and how the sound it made was used in every 90’s and early 2000’s tv and movie show as generic computer noise :)

You have me beat on the XT, mine was a 286, although it did replace an Apple 2e (granted both were aquired several years after they were already considered junk in the 386 era).

My first HD was a 20mb mfm drive :). Be right back, need some “just for men” for my beard (kidding, I’m proud of it).

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I agree and my comment had obviously no nuance. I’m still dealing with VMware fallout in my professional life which is on Broadcom but still, this dude had control of another huge sinking ship previously…

Damn, this guy is utterly fantastic at ruining huge tech firms.

Thanks for taking the downvotes for the team. I laughed anyway :)

You know, the way this toxic bro culture has evolved, let them build their own romantic partners if actual human women aren’t good enough for them.

Personally, I love my authentic, human, beautiful complicated and unusual wife. I didn’t get to create her, but I’ve gotten to spend almost 20 years figuring her out and it’s been pretty great.