1. Reagan
2. Trump

Don’t forget George W. Bush. Not a celebrity bit certainly an idiot.

Stable genius at work.

Enter the Void (2009). Super trippy and one of those movies that leaves you wondering about everything each time you watch it.

The interface is straight out of the early 2000s.

The last good version of MS Office was Office 2000. The ribbon interface and the rest of its spawn are godawful.

Ironic that reddit goes the way of digg.

Yea I am aware. My point is that an analog system doesn’t have network outages unless the physical copper wires are all down.

Digital systems are much more fragile.

The whole point of having a landline was that it worked when the power was out.

So tired of Elon bs posts. Thanks

Looks good man. I played with the same stuff trying to get windows to be more Linux like and not suck so much.

I remember being really proud of finding and configuring some desktop application that showed all the CPU usage, memory statistics, etc.

That, and like just adding functionality that you would think would be part of an OS like being able to control your music from someplace or customizable shortcuts.

Quicksilver changed how I use the Mac when I transition over from a PC. Quicksilver made everything make sense. I think my favorite thing at the time was the customizable global shortcuts, and being able to just start typing the name of some thing and launch it. Instead of having 1 million icons in shortcuts on the on the dock just the few that I always used.

On PC in the early 2000s I started customizing the windows xp shell because it was so basic. I used something few people have probably used: Geoshell.

It was a skinnable replacement for the windows UI with various plug-ins to customize functionality. I guess it was similar to what was available in Linux at the time as far as the window manager. It was also more stable since explorer wasn’t also handling all of the UI tasks.

I think my record for uptime was like 47 days on Windows XP without having to reboot. Granted, things got kind of funky and it wasn’t perfect.

I even learned how to make my own skins, which at the time was pretty difficult to do in windows xp.

Quicksilver.

No, not Elon musk he would never do that. /s

I guess the Internet of things just became the Internet of mobile surveillance cameras.

Is timeline as quickly becoming very dystopian.

Where can I get one of those face scrambling masks from A Scanner Darkly?

Congress is broken. Unfortunately a bunch of geriatric old fucks who care about corporate money are in charge. But yeah, the govt needs to do its fucking job.

So who is supposed to regulate corporations? I agree that the current government is not knowledgeable enough and is beholden to corporations. The problem we have is there is no agency that really governs and enforces any kind of rules.

The ‘build your own’ mentality is what got us to where we are. Just look at what Twitter has become under Musk. He is doing what he wants with a platform that was operating in a very different manner before he took it over and decided to make changes. It’s not a real answer to let everyone do what they want.

Btw, that’s how google and facebook get away with all the evil shit they do.

We need a governing body to make better rules for privacy amongst many other things. I agree that the government or even the FCC may not be the right fit. However, we need some kind of of oversight and regulation. Industry will never selflessly give up rights or power if it means they make less money. They only do what the laws tell them they can get away with.

How about passing internet privacy laws? Or stopping the enshittification and commercialization of the internet? Or passing laws to protect youth from social media companies? Or curbing the reach of advertising companies? How about passing laws to keep our data from being sold to advertisers?

Reminds me of the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socioeconomic unfairness:

The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

-Terry Practchett, Discworld

You mean like an idiot who paid billions of dollars for a company only to ruin it in less than a year?