I completely missed that this exchange is a Spaceballs reference, and now I’m kinda mad at myself.

Why not both?

Was this before actual hard disk drives became popular?

Real answer: yes, but also no. Depends on context.

Professionally, proper hard-disks go back before 8" floppies, let alone the 5.25" and their stiffer 3.5" counterparts. But those drives were comically oversized appliances (like rack-mount and even mini-fridge sized) compared to the stuff we have now.

For home-gamers, PCS have shipped with all three floppy formats shown above, at different times. Hard Drives start showing up for IBM PCs after they miniaturize to fit in the 5.25" drive bay form-factor. But all that’s just before the invention of the 3.5" floppy, and well ahead of it’s popularity as something that comes standard.

I was thinking the same thing. It should have at least morphed into an SD card by now.

¹Yes I did that

… and I hope you learned your lesson. :p

But we do have a QA department. I’ll leave it to the reader to decide if that’s humane or not.

Exactly. Once you know about “white box” goods and the robust Chinese manufacturing chains that support it, you can’t unsee it.

What blows my mind is that Amazon is just accelerating this, and at times, embracing it with their own brand. They’ve gone from being a whole-ass shopping mall to end-of-days-K-Mart in just a few years.

“A therapy” of goths, then?

Fack.

I want off Mr. Bones’ Wild Ride already.

Honestly, a Japanese-style capsule hotel and net cafe would probably do very well in a university environment.

Granted, that’s still charging people for homelessness, which doesn’t help any of the underlying problems. It’s just slightly less dystopian since it’s cheap.

.75oz aqua faba

You had my interest in the cocktail, but you get my upvote for this stealth beans post.

Parents of children affected by the ban shared a spectrum of views on the policy. One parent told the Guardian their 15-year-old daughter was “very distressed” because “all her 14 to 15-year-old friends have been age verified as 18 by Snapchat”. Since she had been identified as under 16, they feared “her friends will keep using Snapchat to talk and organise social events and she will be left out”.

Okay, that’s really bad. On the one hand, this is like “they don’t even card me at the bar”, which is opening up a whole can of worms. Either they’re passing for older, or they’re faking it. As for the kids left behind, it’s also “you look too much like a kid to hang” or they simply get left out for not breaking the rules. All this kind of shit used to happen before, only now it’s technologically accelerated.

And here I was naively thinking this was going to make everyone stampede back to SMS instead.

Ah yes, my old frenemy: procrastinate until the anxiety mounts to near-panic, then ride the adrenaline through the hyperfocus tunnel all the way to “job’s done just before it’s too late” Town.

I once had a 25" TV kind of… “un-skin” itself. It slid off of a hand-truck by accident, and while falling a whole five inches to the ground, the sheer weight and mass of the tube pushed itself through the brittle plastic housing of the set. What was left was a pile of plastic shrapnel and circuit boards, with a fully intact tube sitting atop it. It was only ten years old at the time, and I think it was either bad plastic or it lived its life in a sunny spot, letting UV destroy the material.

TV tube glass is actually surprisingly robust along the front and sides, despite containing a vacuum. It’s the neck that you have to be careful with. One false move and it’ll snap, destroying the whole thing.

Oh, fuck that.

However long that took to get shut down, it wasn’t fast enough.

I much prefer coffee, but man, Earl Grey has an amazing aroma to it.

Wow. I didn’t realize this until you pointed it out. Thanks. TIL.

Thanks for the explanation.

This is such a hilariously bad take. I like how “I can’t use Win32 on Linux” morphed into “re-write the whole app in Javascript just so I can use Electron.”

Meanwhile, Wine and QT are like: “am I a joke to you?”

I’ll add that (IMO) a lot of applications are becoming increasingly malicious, although less-so in the desktop space. I’m happy that devs like this are forced to quasi-sandbox their crap into a browser. Actually, if anyone knows how to crack into an Electron app in order to restore local plugins, user-scripts, and sandbox security controls, let me know. Or just liberate the guts into a local web app instead so I can use a real browser? This trend could be very useful for local security if those features become available.