There used to be little butane soldering irons back in the day before lithium batteries took over.

Do a SCROTUM and find out of they’re still sending people to SECOT.

Gotta give the next gen something to complain about.

SD card. Half us old timers won’t even realize it’s not a floppy disk.

I’d rather have Dr. Pepper or cherry cola for the caffeine.

Sugar and gelatin, which is made from Pig bones and hooves mostly.

So depends on your definition of natural.

I get similar feelings about earth when I can see the moon during the daytime. Something about seeing it with clear craters against the blue sky makes it feel much more like we’re just floating in space with a cratered barren partner.

I have a folder of backgrounds they switch every hour just for this reason.

But I hardly ever see them with full screen apps anyway and app/spaces switching with gestures is like second nature. Like having a laptop with 4-5 monitors.

The also killed their UI performance previously when Vista first launched. Remember Aero?

Yeah I meant to exclude those types of OS level changes, good point.

I quit web dev before Apple silicon took over (I bought one of the last intel laptops because I’m a Luddite about losing my old apps and weird projects.

There is su on MacOS, I just didn’t ever need it for the kinds of dev work I did.

It runs bash(or zsh) and most of the rest of the things you’d use in a dev environment and (before docker was so popular) it was pretty easy (maybe 15-20 minutes from scratch with makes) to set up a new Mac to mimic a Unix server environment for local dev work.

It’s nice out here though.

I used to write it all the steps I thought I’d need as these types of comments, then go back and write the real methods. But I usually replaced the comments with more detailed jsdocs style comments with as much detail about the parameters as returnvalues as possible.

Then I quit web dev and moved to the woods.

I thought pc makers made side profits with all the bloatware they install. And possibly some weird deals with M$ too.

And they want us all in the cloud so they can control and see it all. Can’t do that if you can keep your data on the pc in your basement.

Yeah a local record of blocked ads would be trivial to save and no need to upload.

Takes roughly a billion $1 pieces of paper.

Then send a ridiculously small number of those to your state representatives.

I think digital fascism is a likely motivator at this point. The ceos have all been hanging out with the political fascists, so there’s not much reason to think otherwise.

And they make them so tricky to repair that appliance repair people will either have to charge too much or outright refuse to work on them.

Still miss my first eBay purchase which was a voodoo2 12mb monster from late 98.

Sold an old motherboard a month earlier so it was basically free!