This is the most boomer-y comment I’ve read in a while. I remember my parents saying shit like this about me and my NES.

I usually do it when we take over a customer’s access control system and we have half their doors on the new system and half in the old still and are migrating them over. I’m an electronic security tech, this is what I do for a living.

I use it at work to clone a customer’s proximity card when I work in their building so they don’t have to leave me theirs to get around. The one legitimate use I found.

I guess being able to trigger the customer service announcement without having to find a button in a store is nice.

You gotta put the sticker on lest you forget it’s even there, just being an OS and getting out of your way.

technological breakthroughs

What, the dumbass case design with the useless flat corner bits awkwardly sticking out of it wasn’t innovative enough for you?

Started messing around with it some time in 2003, on Mandrake Linux when I was 21 years old. Experimented and ran servers with various distros in the years since but it didn’t become my daily driver until about 2014-15, with Debian.

It was enough for yo mom ohhhhhhhh!

j/k

The world is going to be absolutely fucked when the older engineers and techies who built all this modern shit and/or maintain it and still understand it all retire or die off.

Gotta save that stock price somehow. Activate investor bullshit machine.

Time to sail the high seas. When they leave no other option…🏴‍☠️

Kerbal Space Program. Loved KSP1, but still salty about spending $60 on the pre release of KSP2 thinking it would help fund development. Never again. Learned my lesson for sure. Both versions are basically dead now. It was a fun ride while it lasted.

loose 90% of the games you play as well

It’s 2025, not 2007. This is a huge exaggeration. Maybe try it again sometime.

The article is about Altair BASIC. That one was actually homegrown.

Who asked for this? Did y’all ask for this? I don’t remember asking for this.

Looks around room in confusion

Jokes never translate well. Even between somewhat-related languages, like western European ones. Best to just not.

Another big part is learning how to set it up in a way that it’s functional and productive the first time and then STOP FUCKING WITH IT.

Who has time these days to read stuff and research it before spamming that “buy” button? 😉

How do you keep birds from landing on it and shitting up the lens and blocking the laser?

It’s the law of outdoor infrastructure. If it’s outside, and it’s high up, it will get shat upon.

But video is so damn annoying. If you wanna copy-paste something from the video, you’re fucked unless you pause and type each character by hand. I don’t get it.

But then again I’m not a zoomer.