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It's just something for people to tinker with and modify if they wish, and learn from. Kinda like Arduino microcontroller kits. My goal isn't to produce the next iPod. My goal is to open up the iPod and let anyone build one.

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Checks program launcher menu

Still no embedded ads...

Worth it.

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Not that I'm a proponent of it or anything, but people were saying the exact same thing ten years ago after the first big bubble. I don't think it's going anywhere. There's too much greed in the world, and it's too enticing. At this point you might as well be a nun trying to get porn banned worldwide.

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As not a gamer, I keep forgetting about games and that people also use computers to play them.

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From the atomic age into the information age. That date is a good marker.

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I'll be convinced they can fully replace most trade work when they figure out fine motor control and finally build servo or hydraulic systems that don't act all janky and with slop a mile wide. When they can strip a wire, and then terminate it into a screw terminal, and then install an outlet in the wall. All with one robot, using each tool as needed as finely tuned as a human would do it. And also being able to adapt to different situations on the spot. For instance "shit, the hole for the outlet overlaps a stud, wtf do I do to fix this" type stuff.

From what I've seen even from the best like Boston Dynamics, there are still many decades to go before we have fully capable robotic trade workers.

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No, it's "get your pants away and come with me, Satan <3."

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Oh, funny you mention that, because in my country, my government paid to have fiber laid but the useless bloodsucking capitalist ISPs didn't do absolutely jack shit with the money and pocketed it. That's why were having to do stupid shit like Starlink now to connect the people out in the sticks.

My electricity is also provided by a co-op.

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Oldest developer trick in the book. Program in a bunch of useless delays everywhere. On the next few updates, slowly remove them and say you are "improving" the system.

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Everybody in here does all this crazy shit with their system. I just wanna use my computer, man. I cruise on defaults all day long. I barely even bother changing the DE's default wallpaper.

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Not just software. Hardware too. Open up all the things! I want a full schematic printed on the back of my refrigerator again.

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I don't have an answer to that. Nobody has a good answer to that. It doesn't mean I condone targeting civilians, no matter who it is. They both have the right to exist and live in peace.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7i254JAZCQ

Guess you haven't seen this one. It's in the first couple minutes.

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"Mayday, mayday, the puns are too much, I'm going down!"

"How many holes on board sir?"

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Damn, I remember the original version of this meme...like 15 years ago.

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Windows XP was the grassy hill. Windows 98 was just a random shot of some clouds.

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Sounds of a door slamming shut and opening all day long.

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rock->spear->bow and arrow->cannon->handheld cannon->auto-repeating handheld cannon->howitzer->ICBM->Predator drone

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Missing Sonic the Hedgehog and Secret of NIMH.

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Bavaria is probably the most "German" german region. That's where all the lederhosen stereotypes come from.

Basically it's the Texas of Germany. Old school, religious, and conservative.

Edit: in the very rural parts, they even have their own dialect that to some Germans is almost completely unintelligible. I realized this when I took German language classes in high school in the USA and what they were having me learn was very much NOT the way my Bavarian mother spoke to me. It felt kind of irritating when they told me I was pronouncing things wrong and my grammar was wrong when I fuckin' lived there as a child and spoke it fluently.

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Microsoft. They've been itching to go to a fully cloud-dependent subscription-only model for Windows for a while now.

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Where have you been, we've been trying to make robot dogs work since the late 90s. Boston Dynamics is gettin' pretty close now.

https://i.imgur.com/cNeWX7n.jpg

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Going to guess you were cruising BBS, FTP, and Telnet sites? I was just an ignorant preteen coding Qbasic garbage trying to learn programming on my Dad's PC that year. When I read back on Internet history I was a little surprised it was already so active when most people weren't even aware of it yet.

At least now I know how Dad got all them free DOS games.

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