BIFF

Oh well.

I remember accidentally breaking my parent’s computer

loool that was me! I was kind of fortunate that they didn’t use it all that much, but installing something like LiteStep or AfterStep, that would completely hide all everything but the background was fun.

I still remember how cool I thought I was figuring out how to add an extra 32 MB of EDO ram into that 750 lb TWO GB (2!!) HP (back when the full name was printed on the case) Win95 desktop. It wasn’t until I went to the community college and saw the weird X cursor on the lab terminals that I asked the techs what it was, and a week later I had my first distro, Linux Mandrake, installed on a now-partitioned hdd.

I miss my grandfather teaching me the basics of DOS 2.0 on his dual-floppy IBM. Those were simpler days, and those were the golden days. The greybeards knew what was up then, just as many today still do.

I’m off to re-read the legendary tales of the BOFH.

damn baud rate

It may be separate from the API issue, but the purpose is still the same: to monetize your eyeballs at the expense of everything else.

Wow, it is impressive to watch subs go dark in solidarity and their names light up green! Well done to all of them! 🤘

That explains why I like it here.

Older audience member here. I remember seeing the DOS 2.0 box sitting on my grandfather’s shelf, and him teaching me hours to use the CLI to make in inventory of my baseball cards.

I must’ve been about 5-6 years old then, and I later got to experience the absolute magic of 14.4 and still later that fad of whatever those .mp3 things were supposed to be…

I left reddit and made the effort to learn how these newfangled federal sites work, and I’ll keep at it. Never did quite understand what that clock social platform was about, or why the youngers like it so much, though suspect that’s by design.

The signup delay is very confusing, I agree. To make matters worse, in some instances there’s no indication that your request even gets through, so the instructions basically say to try again, even if you’ve already lost your username.

This could fall under the umbrella term of EETs: Enhanced Enshittification Techniques.

Even more targeted advertising aimed at reddit users.

Corporations doing shady shit to keep their revenue streams from being interrupted is par for the course these days. Thanks for posting, now I know not to use Deezer.

Fuck no.

It’d be truly sad if this shareholder enshittification of Reddit is what guts it and leaves its corpse in a ditch, but it does seem to be the way most things are headed these days.

Reminds me a bit of an old-school shell for windows that was called GeoShell. That was a long time ago.