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I know, but at least it’s honest about it and you don’t have to pay a fee to watch it.

FlyingSquid,
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Maybe it’s time we all go back to living like it’s the 80s. Watch OTA broadcast TV and read more books and call people on the phone instead of text them. And use computers to do taxes and word process and play simple games.

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Looks like the name is far more confusing than that. Apparently, ‘football’ used to mean multiple types of games, soccer started out as ‘association football,’ and then a British public school took ‘association’ and turned it into ‘asoccer,’ which spread to Oxford and became common there and then everyone else started calling it ‘soccer’ but then they dropped ‘soccer’ in favor of just ‘football’ except in countries which already had a football, which was sometimes the same as rugby.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_football#Name

FlyingSquid,
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I can see that, but is it really worth running it as an OS other than for that specific use? Because if not, you can just run it in an emulator or on a partition when you need that.

FlyingSquid, (edited )
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I don’t even know why people use Windows 10 (or 11) other than momentum.

I haven’t used Windows for years, but my daughter’s new online school required either a Windows 10/11 computer or a Mac and we can’t afford even a new decent Windows notebook, let alone a Mac, so we ended up getting a refurbished Thinkpad running Windows 10 from NewEgg.

Windows 10. Is. Annoying. As. Fuck.

We are constantly getting interrupted by unnecessary popups (or were until I took the time to disable everything I could think of, which was a pain in the ass).

After running updates, it made me go through a bunch of screens turning down paying for things. Twice. And those popups still asked me about paying for things. Motherfucker, I already paid $300 for the computer, I’m not paying you shit.

And wow is stuff counterintuitive in how to do it compared to either any Linux GUI I’ve tried or Mac OS. Just trying to figure out how to get to a File menu is baffling half the time.

I don’t blame anyone for using XP over that shit. Let alone Linux or even a Mac.

FlyingSquid,
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it’s the kind of material that keep a monkey occupied.

And that’s what Ten Forward is for!

FlyingSquid,
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Suddenly glad all of my friends are old people like me.

FlyingSquid,
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That’s a lot less fun than going to a used record store or an antique mall though. That’s what we do.

FlyingSquid,
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It’s fun, although she’s been less interested lately. Maybe in the spring.

FlyingSquid,
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The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

– Plutarch

CE 45 - ~CE 119

This has literally been said by people for at least two millennia.

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Okay there, Ron DeSantis…

FlyingSquid,
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Jeez. I’m surrounded by kids. That’s the way we ate pudding in the 80s. And we liked it that way!

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/65614a4e-1092-457c-905b-6f78d5b8cb78.png

You don’t get that reference either, do you?

Sigh.

FlyingSquid,
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I guess kids grow up now with like Goofy Frankenstein’s Monster, but yeah. It definitely sounds ridiculous to us.

FlyingSquid,
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Exactly. Don’t tell me you wouldn’t want to read Horton Hatches the Xenomorph Egg.

FlyingSquid,
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Decades, true, but I still hope one day to see The Very Hungry Freddy Krueger.

FlyingSquid, (edited )
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Oh wow. I am clearly older than you because Thomas was something that I was way too old for by the time it came on TV and I had plenty of Carlin’s albums, but yeah, that must have been a head trip. I wonder if there are any other examples like that. I can’t think of any off the top of my head.

EDIT: Thought of one. Bob Saget, the world’s dirtiest comedian, playing a dad on the sickeningly wholesome show Full House.

FlyingSquid,
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Good luck with that, I suppose.

FlyingSquid,
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Only Dumbo.

FlyingSquid,
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Mostly just the sick ones and the babies. Lions generally don’t go after prey that large. They generally avoid giraffes too. They have to be pretty desperate to go after an elephant because they can’t kill it like most of their prey by either suffocation or breaking their neck.

FlyingSquid,
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So can flying squid. Because if we get in trouble for it in the ocean, we can just fly away, motherfuckers.

FlyingSquid,
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We’re in cahoots.

FlyingSquid,
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Have you ever had a non-fresh fried egg? They taste like misery and egg whites. This is a whole pile of them. It’s horrific. Why would anyone do this to the world?

FlyingSquid,
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Jesus… fresh cooking a huge pile of fried eggs is awful enough…

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