I’ve also been getting a kick out of my new 3D printer and controlling it remotely. Even though if I hit the X+10mm button and that message has to go to Prague and back before the Nextruder nudges to the right.

I haven’t had a computer with a built-in SATA optical drive in years, just the crappy off-brand old recycled laptop drive in a random housing ones you get these days that require a good USB A-MicroB cable, and good luck finding one of those. Having a proper built-in drive is nice enough that I actually want to use it.

So I was playing with some of my old CDs, and noticed that my copy of Slippery When Wet is two-sided. Bwuh?! CDs aren’t two-sided, that’s a DVD thing. Sure enough, the “back” is a DVD that has the four music videos they made for the album, and two more copies of the music, one in “even better than Redbook Audio Somehow” stereo, and one in Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound that has been lengthened, mostly just additional studio chatter before and after the tracks but one of the songs, I think it’s Raise Your Hands, has a lengthened bridge or something?

So I learned how to rip FLACs from a DVD!

Weird Al’s Poodle Hat has a .mov file on it.

Had a big ol time partying like it was 2004.

It’s the power glove that really gets me. It’s so bad.

I put an optical drive in my PC recently, and I’ve been giggling like an idiot typing “eject” and “eject -t” into the terminal. Terminal commands that do something physical in the world delight me.

Entice? I thought it was fascinate.

You know, I have encountered a lot of “just pipe curl into sh” from people who absolutely should know not to do that.

Actually, Hammond would show up with something busted like Manjaro and at some point he’d manage to break Xorg or something near the end of the journey.

That seems to be what Zorin is offering, it’s Gnome that has been customized to look like Windows, and yet not forked into its own thing like MATE, Cinnamon, Unity, Pantheon or Cosmic were. And they’ll sell you a Pro version that’s got like, Gimp and Darktable and such pre-installed. I genuinely don’t see what people see in Zorin.

Okay, so, Richard Hammond would be the first to arrive with Linux Mint! …xfce Edition. It’s the sports version, it’s lighter, sleeker, faster than the standard version.

Meanwhile, Jeremy Clarkson would arrive with Ubuntu Server, under the impression it somehow has more POWAAA!!!

James May turns up, having done this properly. With FreeBSD.

And Gnome customized to look like Windows, rather than Cinnamon or KDE.

Can you blame a Chameleon for blending in? Look to the right of Fedora.

The Island of TempleOS is in the middle of the Holy Sea.

Are there a lot of people wanting to plug Zen 1 chips into B550 motherboards? Usually it’s the other way around, upgrading chip in an old motherboard.

I saw a video a few weeks back of a woman cleaning out layers of “decent quality insulated cups” from her cupboard, several each of a decade’s worth of fads. Those are going in landfills en masse before the 21st century is out.

beat me to it.

Well, English isn’t a prescriptive language, so if we just start saying “dongus” they’ll put it in the dictionary.

Anyone got a recommendation for a good bluetooth dongus?

remember Socket 7?

My father, an IT professional since before there was IT, once said to me “One of the reasons why I like Norton is it will check if there’s updates to my software for me.”

Oh you bitter winter child.

Oh there’s gonna be Gen Alpha or Gen Beta kids filling dumpsters with Stanley cups, anime figurines, gundam models and retro consoles in the 2060s. “Why did my grandmother think this was cool?”

I think AMD also did a smart thing by branding their sockets. AM4, AM5, what do you think is going to be next? I bet it’s AM6. What came after the Intel LGA1151? It wasn’t LGA1152.

They probably didn’t capitalize “app” so as to avoid confusion with Windows App. Which is what they’ve renamed Remote Desktop to.

You can’t reach these decisions on normal people cocaine. You need the special executive cocaine for this shit.