PhobosAnomaly

A good friend put it well:

“It’s like a nice sunrise. I’ve seen it a thousand times before but I’m still going to admire it”

That sign would be about as welcome as John McLane was at the start of Die Hard 3.

Yeah, that sign with that slur. Except there wouldn’t be Samuel L kicking about to save him.

I miss the Directory listings of a search engine. It was great for finding a series of niche sites based on “Quake III news” or “Subaru Impreza owners club” or such like.

SEO has ruined the web 1.0 efforts to just shotgun news and opinion onto the web (fact checking was purely optional) - everything’s just a bit too clean and corporate now. Shame.

It’s just missing an extra bollock and you’// have yourself a massive TP dong. nice.

edit: fucking on-screen keyboard did me dirty, I’m keeping it though.

A very cold one in winter.

you know you can hear it in your head

Lubuntu brother reppin’

My poor 2011 laptop is begging for the sweet release of death, but not before Linux keeps performing CPR on it.

Not quite, it’s some sort of ambassadorial role from the French state to the United Nations office in Geneva…

…or at least that’s what I took from the bio in the top right.

Absolute banger of a tweet.

You know you done fucked up when even the French put the effort in to show up and take the piss.

Metal Gear Solid ruined me.

I can’t see the VIDEO text of the OSD without thinking of the HIDEO fourth wall break during the Psycho Mantis scrap.

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yeah, but, there’s like chicks here

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yeah, we’re gonna score

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I’m going to preface this by stating that it’s my assumption and not fact:

O’Leary isn’t daft. I don’t like him and I don’t like Ryanair, but he’s done well with the brand from a financial perspective, in an industry that’s all about the fine margins.

I’m quite sure your view is correct, it’s probably only about the numbers - for better or worse. If Starlink was a cheaper alternative to most in the market, and their projected connectivity sales outweigh the operating and capital costs, there’d be Starlink all over Ryanair planes. As it happens, the numbers probably look a deep red on the spreadsheet so it’s in the “fuck right off” box.

I’ve no love for either of them but it’s still nice to see Elon getting a poke in the eye.

I’ll be honest, I used Windows XP fairly extensively then switched to Lubuntu while learning about Windows 7. My workplace moved from NT4 to Windows 7, and then to Windows 10 which is the only versions I’ve had serious exposure to.

My only real experience of Vista and 8 has been installing it on folk’s devices, patching them to a current state, and Ninite-ing them full of handy applications.

Nah I agree, but if every incremental release was included then you’d need a 55" monitor in portrait orientation to see them all!

I’ve not really thought about the Star Trek films. I enjoyed them all (even Nemesis!) with the exception of ST4: The Voyage Home.

I’m afraid I can’t speak authoritatively on the subject, however taking a step back - MS do have a record for driving hardware uptake with their system releases.

In theory it’s not a bad thing - Unreal and Quake II (among many) requiring 3D accelerator hardware largely drove PC gaming into the lead for cutting edge graphics - but the type of hardware MS have been requiring has always been a bit of a clusterfuck - a prime recent example being the supposed requirement of a TPM board in a Win11 computer.

My anecdotal experience is that Vista - while pretty - is a bit of a bloatfest regardless of what hardware you run it on.

Would it? If I’m already a user on a local device, surely my parental code would suffice and turn a ludicrous process into a one (and a half) step process?

Ah I remember upgrading from 98SE to Millennium Edition and it was just ass. That said, I reformatted and installed Me and used the 98 CD to pass the upgrade check, and I had very few issues with it. Shit like System Restore was gash - in fact, any of the new tools installed with Me were awful - but I just effectively used it as 98 Third Edition and it did the job nicely for me.

I agree that 95 was a big - if not monumental - step up in graphics interface driven OSes… but the first few releases were unstable as fuck. Whether it was horrendous shutdown issues because ACPI support was super flaky at the time, to trying to run com/com as a command to insta-bluescreen the system. The latter is so much of an edge case though that I almost cut myself typing it.