Preservation is an invasive and destructive process. Recreating the experience of watching ‘The Daily Show’ in the 90s or early '00s is already impossible. Language and culture mildew and rot just like leather and wood.

EDIT: People don’t seem to understand what I’m talking about. Even the people who are responding in good faith seem confused. That’s on me. So I thought I’d try to clarify with an example.

Take the Mona Lisa. Perhaps one of the most preserved objects in history. It’s so well preserved that it’s impossible to see. Sure, you can look at it, but you won’t see it. Taking a picture of the painting is encouraged, but you can’t get a look at it in your camera roll either.

If you saw the actual painting hanging on a friend’s wall, your first thought would probably not be “what a masterpiece”, but “why didn’t they remove the default print that came with the frame”? If you go to Paris, you can wait in line to have the “Mona Lisa experience” but the painting you saw wasn’t hanging on the wall, what you’ll see is the Mona Lisa you brought with you.

(yes, I stole this example from ‘were in hell’ youtube channel)

The real punch line is that in a cafe run by programmers, esoteric rules are in full force, but tables 0 and 1 are no where near each other.

Have you tried blowing on it?

Why is duplicate files a problem?

Now your just being sad. And still wrong: I only interact with the terminal.

It isn’t, and if you’re manually downloading stuff and putting it in some folders, you’re doing it very wrong.

I don’t understand. My distro doesn’t have any folders.

I’ve always thought of dependencies as equivalent to dlls. Is that right? In the past, I’ve had to hunt down dependencies, but all I did was drop them into the right directory and everything worked. Why is Linux so fiddley with dependencies?

“Zero the Kamikaze”? really? Kinda crass even by 90s standards.

I hear you can get a pretty good offer from CrowdStrike these days.

Think of LLMs like a stupid office worker. You wouldn’t rely on them to make critical decisions, but they’re valuable for tedious stuff.

For example, my calendar changed the way to enter new events breaking my workflow. Now I just type out a skeletal schedule and have LLM convert that into a .csv that I import.

I’m thinking of Ripping my CD collection again. I’m researching a way to use a LLM to tidy up the metadata.

I had a folder full of random stuff I’ve saved for years. Had a LLM organize and categorize it for me. I had to tweak the prompt enough that this was a medium difficulty task, but still way easier than doing it manually.

In 2003 I could have made a living selling subscriptions to 5-GB cloud storage that was tightly integrated into Windows.

I understand why Windows is trying to capture you into it’s cloud ecosystem. Just saying that between M$, Apple, and Google you can do some robust backups, basically for free. And if you’re worried about privacy, just encrypt.

Once again, Linux is late with a feature that Microsoft not only has had for years, but is famous for.

alias vim=‘nano’

A common cause for time issues through power states is a dead CMOS battery.

Couldn’t make that today. Western devs would censor those magnificent boobs.

It looks like this person is talking about Platonic Idealism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_forms

This kind of marketing ruined gaming culture.

There is a throughline between gendered marketing; the idea that young hetero men owned gaming; and chud gaming culture like gamergate.

The idea of the young horny gamer dude is sexist toward men too. Never mind the accompanying stereotypes of gamers as loosers and nerds.

hover your mouse

gross

Cato Institute

Remember, these are the people who think freedom is child prostitutes working for heroin.

Horseshit. Why do people endlessly promote Linux only to turn around and express smugness, gatekeeping, and hostility to new users?

You’re not even correct. The Everything as a file philosophy isn’t an antivirus program. Like it’s impossible to get malware by blindly pasting script into a terminal.

This attitude is a bigger obstacle to adoption than games compatibility.