at&t, comcast, tobacco co’s

not making money. make windows a gui on top of linux. like osX. silly microsoft

reminds me of the last time I had to remember that dir/copy/move with backslashes. dad’s insurance ‘software’. always amazed me how computer users get stuck in a way of doing things. print mail

it really is comforting to know you can do 99% of stuff you want with PCs without a license from Microsoft. FOSS has its own headaches but at least you don’t have to wade through a PR swamp to fix stupid bugs

reminds me of the DMCA form letters. full of scary empty threats. paid legal dept. earning their keep. mgmt doesn’t realize the freely developed stuff makes their products more desirable when it does a better job than their own software. may they flounder in ignorance

my bill has gone up 89%

I thank win95 lockups for pushing me into linux.

like retail suddenly writing off large chunks to ‘theft’ coinciding with move to self checkout. surprise

Windows 95;

bought my first Gateway PC when Windows 95 came out. Lockups every day drove me to Slackware install from a dozen floppy set I d/l’d. Mac OS 8.*/9 was no better. OS-10 brought apple back from the dead. wanted to buy stock, was/am poor

contributed a comma in some obscure Gentoo pkg to fix a compile error I had. think it was a 1 line dif. yw

actual BSoD on my win11 yesterday. a… bar?

https://dotnet.social/ mastodon guide next

dues were paying a couple lawyers to make sure company followed the law and own rules. mgmt is usually jealous of union pay. except upper mgmt(profit sharing) typically union will give better advice in any disputes.

tldr; typical false Tw strawman. gma died because you thought you could learn cpr as a youtube download in 10 seconds. try again

have to go to their pages to see any ads. meh. be glad they haven’t installed ads at the router level.

i don’t use it. for when windows opens it trying to shove it in my face. was some msn crap

set the edge homepage to google. don’t use the widgets. crap news sites mostly

in town finally got 250 up/down fibre for $55/month, no caps. waited years. read T-mobile and starlink have some tie-up: https://www.t-mobile.com/news/un-carrier/t-mobile-takes-coverage-above-and-beyond-with-spacex