AliExpress is great if you’re running like a small Etsy shop or something with stuff you make and you need like 250 metal clasps for $20. Or 3000 electromechanical relays to build a relay CPU. They have some of the most random shit in bulk.

That will match my authentic early 1900s green wallpaper perfectly.

Maxis did something like that once in the 90s with Streets of Simcity, where you can load up a city you created and race around in it.

The zit on my ass > Tesla

That’s why I went with Red hat back then. They were sort of the gold standard and everything kinda just worked. Not as well as “it just works” Linux nowadays, but it used to be pretty good and easier to use, relatively speaking, compared to the other distros of the time.

Dependency hell still sucked.

Man that sucks. Imagine if modern desktop PCs still had an option to just power on and run nothing except a memory resident editor/monitor, waiting until you start writing assembly code to start booting the CPU.

You know what I do after reinstalling my OS? I just use it as is. I haven’t been able to do that with Windows since 2001.

Like the famous quicksort algorithm. Invented in 1959, still used today.

There is literally not enough minable lithium on this planet for that to be a viable option worldwide. Somewhere, somebody is going to have to use an alternate source.

By all means, correct me then. What power delivery system out there doesn’t have a base load?

Unless you’re ready to fill the country with a thousand battery farms, you need some sort of steady base supply that solar and wind cannot provide. Hydroelectric is not really an option in Germany, so that leaves you with coal, gas, and nuclear energy.

Because being addicted to the teat of Russian fossil fuels has worked out so well…

And why do they not feel safe? Because rapists.

This has “cover them up from head to toe so nobody gets any rapey thoughts” extremist Islam energy. That’s not solving the problem. The rapists will still be there when they disembark the train.

More like taking a billion bricks and throwing it at that keyhole until one has a random shape that just happens to fit into the keyhole after 50 years of throwing bricks. After that point, every other brick you throw will be shaped similar to that, and most of them will work, until you encounter different keyhole.

All while consuming the energy equivalent of small countries.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon

Feature requests, issues, and bugs would probably be better responded to there. We really can’t do anything about that. It’s open source. There’s also always the option of forking.

I actually cracked one open once a couple years ago, forgot which brand, but there was literally just a regular old ESP8266 module soldered onto the board. All you need is a USB to TTL serial adapter to reflash it, and then use a hobby knife to cut and isolate the GPIO pins you’re going to use.

Edit: Better yet, if I was a sanctioned rogue state, I’d use what little PCB fab capabilities I have left to just have boards ready to go to drop in the controller from the bulbs. It’d just take seconds with a hot air station.

Yeah you can literally reprogram microcontrollers out of smart bulbs and use them to fly drones or guide missiles. General purpose CPU means general purpose CPU.

Docker has fully replaced what I used VMware ESXi for. They thought they had more sway than they did.

Mobile games are the equivalent of those “100 great games pack”-type CDROMS you’d find in the electronics section of stores in the late 90s/early 2000s. Not many invest serious money and time into gaming on a tablet or phone like they do on a console or PC, because games on phones and tablets are more like an afterthought. Something to do in between group chats and work emails.