John Q@Remittancegirl Remember these are the same people who freaked out and broke down when Costco ran out of toilet paper during the pandemic.
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I predate you. Also, people predate me.
@Em0nM4stodon Things I don't want: Blue LEDs that light up the room like a blue 40W bulb and can't be turned off. People are trying to sleep damnit!
@andypiper @ben I am also leaning towards a FrameWork for my next purchase. (Probably Debian for the OS.) My friend @soylentplaid got a 2020 kit, running Mint, and he has nothing but glowing reviews.
@jadi But can you run Doom on Linux inside a PDF?
myrmepropagandistI know someone who rebuffed such a request. Boss was apologetic "it's what the higher ups want, oh *I* think it's a lot of nonsense, but I don't want us to be out of step ... blah blah"
It was proposed to them in sheepish way. They said it would be a lot of work, not add anything of value, and most important they would not do it. It didn't come up again.
Fascism can be the work of zealots, but there are also many sheepish middle management helping hands who "don't even believe in this really"
Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks
Japan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone in a campaign to modernize the bureaucracy. By the middle of last month, the Digital Agency had scrapped all 1,034 regulations governing their use, except for one…
Gotta keep the kids safe from *checks notes* code!
