In response to which I suddenly found the energy to go find the checkbook and an envelope.

Who on Earth actually still uses checks? Is it 2005 1995?

Actually there’s one part of Windows that doesn’t suck – font rendering. Even with fonts copied straight out of C:\Windows\Fonts, no matter how many config files I edited, I couldn’t recreate Microsoft’s ClearType, no matter Mint (MATE), Kubuntu or Debian (LXDE).

~25% of American adults are functionally illiterate

That ~25% of American adults is too dumb to deserve to vote. You should be able to show some kind of basic intelligence and common sense in order to have a say in how a country should be run – it should be based on merit. I even have a name for that: meritocracy!

https://blog.ncase.me/show-and-tell-2025-07/#ai_therapist

There probably were some ads in the past that might’ve (probably unintentionally) targeted people on the spectrum. The IBM Selectric ad from the 60’s instead of bullshitting about changing your lifestyle (like today’s car ads do) focuses on the product’s technological prowess.

Please no, just imagine the influx of 0-days

Haven’t noticed that. It’s dead obvious that desktop PCs aren’t mobile at all, and mobility is what makes laptops laptops.

I couldn’t find the discussion on both talk pages (for personal article and the killing article)

I’m upgrading to Debian 13 instead, since 13 is bigger number than 11 so obviously it’s better

Or Snapchat, or Instagram, doesn’t matter. Remember memes like “Microsoft Office will now have Stories”?

multi-modal: and by everywhere we mean FUCKING EVERYWHERE

So, there’s non-zero chance that they’ll resurrect Windows Phone and Cortana?

haha tarpit goes brrr

Seagate

Ah yes, the shibboleet

Buy some on-ears or (better yet) over-ears, still rocking my Sony WH-CH700N for almost 6 years. Can’t find a successor for them, CH710N and CH720N for unknown reasons got rid of aptX ;_;

You beat me to it

No it doesn’t, not enough gradients

I hope someone holds the entire NSO Group at gunpoint and leaks the Pegasus’s source code.

Not to mention PaperBack, it’s essentially making a backup for life.