When we got our first computer it was a Win 95 machine, with a copy of Encarta, Atlas. I don’t remember what word processor, but it wasn’t a full office suite.

It was cool. We did lots of typing and using ms paint.

Then we got a shareware cd. Hundreds of pretty useless games + 4 or 5 big ones like doom and transport tycoon, but it changed everything. Every day we’d try a new one. We’d mess around in DOS trying to get those ones working.

Then 3D Movie Maker - the full version. It all really started to come alive.

Then a microphone. Just messing around with sound recorder was like when we used to make “funny” tape recordings of ourselves, but without the hassle of tape.

These are the basic concepts of what I think made computers fun.

I guess the direction I’ll probably go shortly is the old AMD 2400g mini itx I have laying around. Put on an opensuse slowroll. We have a microphone handy. We have 900 games on our GOG account. I have an old intuos drawing tablet that might work. Add some of those education flatpaks - solariums and stuff. I think you can definitely do a modern version of what we had back in the 90s when computing was more than watching youtube.

No they weren’t. Infectious diseases resulted in life expectancies 40-50 years lower than now. Dying at 35 years old is not “perfectly fine”.

The movies depict actual AI. That is, machines/software that is sentient and can think and act for itself.

The future is going to be more of the shit we have now- LLMs / “guessing software”.

But also, why ask the question if you think the answer can’t be given yet?

As much as I love collecting books, I’ve decided now my shelf is so full, my next reading purchase will be a kobo instead.

Records and books mostly. But I just moved my CDs out of my storage space.

Click on the game in your library. On the game page click the three dots menu in the top right. Click Browse Files.

Hell yes. And every time I see it pop up, these points come up, usually a bunch of times. So people know this shit is trouble, and it’s still blowing up.

I assume it’s just that his channel mostly seems like advertisement for products. I like him enough, but I know what I’m getting if I watch one of his videos.

Your response to someone who doesn’t understand boundaries (have you set those boundaries with them or just expect them to know?) is to be a jerkoff? Laughing at yourself isn’t your biggest worry here. Re-visit this whole thing from the start.

And…

Learn the car you’re driving. There’s so many different makes, models, sizes, engines, brakes, transmission, tires. Just because you can do something in one car don’t mean you can drive another car the same way.

Like no longer thinking Bio Dome is comedy genius

The IT Crowd is a show about a group of fools getting into ridiculous situations at work. It’s a good laugh and has some classic moments. My partner doesn’t make or get tv/movie references, but even she can drop references from it into casual conversation.

Big Bang Theory is a bland comedy that wants to be much more than it is - relationship drama, social exploratory, situational comedy. But it tends to fail 90% of the time, and the closer it gets to ‘relationship drama’ the more grating it gets.

I’ve been using smb protocol for years. NFS is great when it works, but something about my network makes it unreliable or inconsistent between devices.

Smb has never caused me any problems.

Thursday - Full Collapse live

https://thursday.bandcamp.com/album/full-collapse-live

“With the instant availability of information, and content so easily obtainable, is the culture now a product that’s disposable?“

This quote goes back to 2007. 18 years later it’s not even a question anymore, music and the culture around it has become disposable.

There’s always going to be great bands and artists who have something to say! I’ve heard some of my favourite bands just in the last 10 years. But society is never going to look at music the same, it’s just something people tap on their screen and give a quick listen, or worse; just watching some idiotic lip sync to a 20 second excerpt of it on tik tok.

There could be lots of reason for not having sex:

Asexual

Low sex drive

Never found a person they could connect with like that

Being an awful person / falling into the internet incel category

Different motivations in life that they didn’t feel the need for sex

Medical problems - this could cover a lot from psychological issues to physical issues

Fear of pregnancy / failure of birth control

Strict religion

Nervous/anxious/shy/awkward personality (like in the film)

When I pour Pepsi into a glass I put my nose over it and feel the bubbles fizz on my nose. I’ve done this since I was about 7 years old.

Edit: even better than listening to my dumb ass, this website gives a rundown of the common recommendations at the moment: https://www.hifioasis.com/advice/the-best-digital-audio-players-daps/

There are options. I’m trying to work out now what to get my partner who wants to stop using her phone for audio streaming.

Budget options, these are cheap and don’t use Android as far as I’m aware:

Snowsky Echo Mini (made by Fiio)

Hiby R1

Shanling m0s

Tempotec v1

Next tier up would be (and this is where android seems to become the default, but I think Hiby use a heavily customised version of it):

Hiby M300

Fiio JM21

Hiby R3

Then you get into midrange I guess you’d call it:

Hiby R4

Sony nw-a306

More expensive:

Something from iBasso like the DX180

After that you start looking at tech outside what I think is worth paying. You can easily find reviews from audiophile websites about all of these I’ve mentioned.

Probably be catatonic. This kind of stress, self-doubt and loathing require those extra 32 years of building resilience. Transplant it into 8 year old me and he just shuts off I imagine.

I guess hang out in a school bathroom and eat anyone who comes in. But only make myself visible to one kid so everyone thinks he’s a loser that believes there’s a tiger in the bathroom, and he’s too scared to go to the toilet. I dunno, that kind of thing I suppose.