Unless you were poor and your parents could never afford a PC. We still got to use computers some in school at least. I once volunteered for a ‘computer camp’ which was basically summer school where they would let you play on the computers.

In my day you would either get trash weed with seeds all in it, or pay out the ass for ‘kind buds’. You can get whole Ounces in Michigan right now for what we had to pay for a quarter in the 90s… damn it, you got me doing it! ;)

I’m not sure what their comment said before they fixed it, but if it was “The Organ Trail”, that game exists. It’s basically “The Oregon Trail”, but with zombies.

Just pretend you’re going senile or ‘the new stuff’ is just too advanced. If that doesn’t work you could always claim to have started a ‘tech repair/recycling’ side hustle and start billing people.

I for one am happy to be left out of the ‘generation war’. It’s stupid. In my day blah blah blah- no one cares gramps. Live in the now.

I hope you are right.

he can’t change the constitution

No, but he’s sure proven that he can ignore it. And the Supreme Court will ultimately back him up. And they’ve already ruled that he can’t be charged with anything illegal he does while president (the courts won’t even punish him for crimes he was convicted of when not POTUS). And even if they don’t rule in his favor he’s shown he’s willing to ignore the courts when they don’t rule in his favor.

If the cops and military side with him- and there is a good chance the majority in both groups are MAGAts, he’ll just have people participating in the ‘illegal/illegitimate’ elections arrested.

If he’s still alive in 2028 he will not give up power, I guarantee it.

The radio tuner had short wave in addition to Am and FM which was pretty cool at the time.

Hell, I still think that is pretty damn cool.

It’s the same thing. The workers work, management just makes sure the workers work.

You’re the hero the company doesn’t deserve, but the one it needs right now.

Did you have to hide from the T Rex on your way to school?

I kid. I started out buying records and cassettes, but 8 tracks were “outdated” by the time I was a kid. Though our huge old school “console”* could play 8 tracks and when I was 13 I found my mom’s box of old tapes. She had Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Queen etc. It was quite the musical education.

• A console was a giant piece of furniture only slightly smaller than a coffin that had a radio, record player, and speakers built in. It’s what got replaced by the “sleek, modern” units like the one in OPs picture.

They mean All the Things in One cabinet 😁

Or what about the time he agreed with Howard Stern that Ivanka is a “Piece of Ass”?

Or how about when Katie Johnson, the woman who accused Trump of SA’ing her when she was 13 testified in 2016 that Trump “Took a liking to me because I looked like his daughter”

The fact that Snopes used “Trump said in January 2025 that he never visited Epstein’s island.” as evidence is what’s truly sus.

Trump is one of the lyingest liars ever to lie. NO ONE should believe a word out of his mouth, much less a ‘fact checker’ website. Trump could finally admit he’s a fascist child abuser and I would question it just because it came out of his mouth.

You would likely get more truth out of Trump if you simply assumed he meant the exact opposite of everything he says.

I was looking at some PC’s at Best Buy and a salesman came up to try and give me the hard sell. I asked if I could buy the PC without Windows on it for a discount.

“How would you use your computer without Windows on it?”

“I’m going to install Linux”

“What’s that?”

“It’s an operating system”

Blank stare

“Like Windows or OS X…”

Blank Stare

Sigh “I already have a copy of Windows at home”

“Oh! Well I don’t think you can do that, no.”

My only Apple computer was a G3 Powermac, which I got used from the resale store at the University I used to work at, which means I got it real cheap.

Compared to the boring and clunky Windows XP machine I had, I loved the design of the hardware and the software. I loved that to access the mobo to upgrade the RAM I just had to lift up a latch on the side of the case (my Modern case isn’t even as easy as that to get into). I liked the colors and the ‘handles’ that made moving the tower around easy if you needed to. I had a very tacky aesthetic back in the day where if something was made of clear blue plastic I would buy it, so that Mac fit right in with my ‘decor’ lol

Compared to XP the UI was a lot more sleek and modern imo, the dock was a game changer because I rarely used more than a handful of programs so having them always available was cool. Plus my simple minded ass was impressed by the animations. The “hot corners” were super useful. as was resizing the windows by dragging them to the edges of the screen. The overall look was just much more nice to look at. I think it was 10.3 Panther if I recall correctly.

At the time I was just starting to learn about Free and Open Source software, so I thought the fact that they based OS X on Unix was pretty cool. The first DE I ever installed was on that Mac (LXDE?) and the first FOSS programs I installed was on there, VLC and The GIMP I believe. I also loved how easy it was to install programs. You would just download the file and drag it into a folder called ‘Apps’, and to uninstall you just deleted or moved the file out of there. Compared to the ‘install wizards’ and the ‘add/remove’ control panel on Windows, it felt like actual wizardry.

I think more than anything the geek in me just liked learning a new set of skills and a different way of doing things, but overall I loved the experience. When they announced the iPhone I was excited. I was actually one of those people who carried around a mobile phone, MP3 player and Digital Camera at the same time. So the thought of just having to carry around 1 device to do all those things was like a dream come true. Then I heard about the price and was less excited (it was almost $1000 in today’s money adjusted for inflation). I was a working class stiff after all. Then I found out about the lack of apps and thought that was weird. But still I was pretty much on board.

I got a iPod Touch to replace my Nano and kept my flip phone. That’s when I realized that I had to jailbreak it to fully unlock the functionality. That’s where they finally lost me. I had been planning on buying another Mac but I figured if they were willing to lock down their phones like that- it was only a matter of time before they did the same thing with their computers.

It ended up being a good decision because on my next (Windows Vista) PC I learned to install Linux and I could do some really tacky things with the UI then! lol. Compiz anyone :D

All this to say I think Apple was actually in fairly decent (if still too expensive) place prior to the iPhone, but their whole ‘walled garden’ approach to computing just wasn’t my bag at all.

This almost makes me wish I still used Apple products so that I could boycott them.

Ive been Apple free for 20 years though.

This is why it naked the news att all

If it had naked the news I probably wouldn’t mind so much. ;)

The sad fact is, this isn’t really ragebait. The media has always treated the ruling class as more important than us plebians. For much of history- the public kind of agreed with them about that and no one raged about it. It’s only fairly recently that it’s become slightly more mainstream for people to be class conscious (in the last 100 years at least). I’m sure IrishstarDOTcom just thought this was a newsworthy death.

Oh No! A millionaire trophy hunter was brutally mauled to death by a vicious beast? This is a terrible tragedy :( Seriously, what could be more important than the life of a complete and utter scumbag?

I wonder how many innocent children starved and were murdered by the IDF today?

Doesn’t matter- didn’t you hear? A rich white man was killed!

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