There are conversations where the actuality matters, and there are conversations where the criteria matter, and there are also conversations where the dynamic matters. You mixed up this one.

I mean, everybody talking about someone else’s rosy worldview or otherwise playing a cynic is usually clueless.

And ones better than the current mainstream were pretty numerous.

Trying on 6GB. As a Linux user I usually don’t need more RAM, so haven’t added any yet.

and even years after AOL had its market share siphoned off by ISPs like Earthlink, those users continued to use AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). I didn’t retire my handle until the late 2000s.

In Russia ICQ played the same role for an IM (it’s the same OSCAR protocol), but it (I think owned by AOL too) killed itself by trying to lose alternative clients.

I used the official one for Windows only, but it was a more civilized age, and what they were breaking included clients for Java phones (it was not so rare to hear the ICQ notification sound in public transport), clients like QIP, Miranda, Trillian which were used by many people, clients for Linux and so on.

Then everybody moved on to Skype. It happened very fast, in a couple of months my buddy list went mostly red from mostly green.

You know, one can inflict trauma that won’t be forgotten in 10+ years without any rape. Which wouldn’t be a cause for even a fine, or a day behind bars, or lower social prestige of the person doing it.

While with rape - I’m all in support of killing attackers in self-defense, it’s justified.

But if the crime is already done, and if you have them behind bars, and the facts are established, then every hour and every day their personality changes, and becomes further and further from the one that committed that crime.

And the purpose of the system in theory is not to punish or destroy. It’s to redeem. You are nobody to attempt anything else.

Many murderers murder openly and don’t get any jail time at all. Cause they are elected politicians.

Other than that - the purpose of the penitentiary system is not to punish people, it’s to redeem them. At least in theory. You don’t have any right to punish other people (well, an eye for an eye may do, if there’s no other way, but that’s the worst that’s acceptable), especially with such intentional destruction as a life sentence.

So your very approach is criminal intent.

offtopic: on your 3. it’s also illegal to “discredit the Russian armed forces”, for which even “patriots” and Putinists get fined.

Let me introduce you to FreeDOS!

A README file is usually comprised of text.

Other than that - usually if it has a webpage, it has some screenshots.

A stupid question - why don’t people in countries with large forested areas just dig really long and wide trenches with water which would take longer for the fire front to cross (due to winds and general heat it still would, I know)?

One would think this makes sense economically, long-term.

???

Living in Russia, sincerely don’t get the joke.

Asphyxiating because of the poisonous gasses from a pickled cabbage tank, or drowning in vodka, or something like that I can understand. But what’s with the windows?

Cool, I really want something like RPi, but with SATA on RISC-V. Maybe somebody will make “laptop” cases with normal deep travel keyboards for these too. It’s a possibility, at least.

The first sentence made me think that maybe it’s something ideologically similar to IPFS and Locutus, but yes, horrible.

Good post!

+10 social rating

+1 rice ration

+1 cat wife

Glory to the strong jade rod comrade Xi!

Natural selection. Docker apes must suffer.

Windows, Mac, iOS and Android will all “work” even if you have no idea what you are doing and no plans to to learn.

Oh no they won’t. You’ll just replace iOS and Android devices too often to notice, and with Windows you’ve gotten used to fixing broken crap.

If something doesn’t work immediately it’s up to the user to search the relevant keywords and see if there is a is a fix

Worked much better for me that the alternative process under Windows. May be the main reason I switched.

but now that I’m older I see the general media is clueless

Only it seems they are becoming more clueless every year. Probably because they believe that the opposite should be true because of poking touchscreens with their fingers so much every day.

Normal for autistic people to get tired less

Somewhere in my childhood picking a girly nickname was a sure way to not get ignored while trying to get tech help on IRC.

I’m 27, though the latter two match.