Yes, everything about it was extra heavy.

Have you blocked me yet? If not, it might save time to do it now…

I always noticed that too…

I’ll do you one better - why is Aleppo?

That’s the problem though, with old systems like that, the CPU was like 1/10th of the equation, the hardware was far more important. Porting something often involved a full rewrite.

My dad had a DEC something or other that was basically a cube with most of its space being two 8" floppy drives… No clue if it ran cp/m…

My local science museum had a laptop from the '90s on display, with the caption “computing in the 1900s”. My kids asked if that was what I had in school when I was their age, and I had to break the news to them that I was already done with school when those were current…

There are electric cars that are not Teslas…

It’s both, depending on perspective. You emigrate from America to Zimbabwe according to other Americans. To Zimbabweans, you have immigrated to Zimbabwe from America.

This is America, you might as well ask men to cut their balls off …

The timing is unfortunate… I’d like to buy a used EV, and I’ve seen a few I like on carvana with very low miles for cheap… but I’ve been living in an apartment and would have no place to change it… Now I’m buying a house with (among many other things) a 240v outlet in the garage specifically for changing an EV… But it’s going to be a couple weeks, and those used EVs are dwindling…

Seriously? I get yelled at at least once every time I ride. People have thrown drinks at me, spit at me numerous times (though their aim is generally very poor)

I’ve even been run off the road a few times, intentionally (they admitted it after I caught up with them at the next light and confronted them)

a man won’t know a woman doesn’t shave her legs unless he’s intimate with her

What’s the opposite of observant? Because whatever that is, you are.

But not a lot on sunglasses.

Why would you want to take your vacation while kids are out of school? Anywhere you go will be overrun by kids…

Just go read up on networking and you’ll realize that wouldn’t make sense.

That right there is you being an asshole. If that’s who you are, that’s fine, but at least be honest about it. I know I’m an asshole, so you’re not hurting my feelings any by turning it back on me.

If you would like to not be an asshole, a good start would be to accept that you don’t know everything, and just because your experience differs from mine doesn’t mean I’m wrong. It’s fully possible what I observed between 30 and 15 years ago was unusual, or maybe it was common then but isn’t now- and if you had led with that, I might have conceded that you may at least have more current knowledge than I. It’s also possible I didn’t explain myself clearly enough, and we’re just misunderstanding each other- a layer 8 problem, if you will.

you think the modem is broadcasting your computer’s MAC address.

Well, considering I was seeing arp packets from mac addresses of every other machine on my segment pretty much continuously, what conclusion would you come to?

Yeah but I think this legislation is targeting consumer grade equipment, professional tends to be more expensive than consumers are willing to spend, so I wasn’t really considering it part of the equation.

I happen to know when my (now ex-) wife cheated on me, she raw dogged him… Never would have expected that from her, she’s such a germophobe otherwise…

Uncut here, never needed lube either.

I got a vasectomy because I don’t want kids. Unfortunately, when I got home, they were still there.

(I’m kidding, I love my kids. But I definitely don’t want any more)