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Yeah, about a decade+ ago I paid for mIRC and WinRAR as a way to pay them back.

Alex Lifeson!

Even more money lost for rural schools. Getting high speed, high capacity internet connections to much of rural America is extremely cost prohibitive. E-Rate was the only way the rural district where I was network admin could possibly afford it.

It’s a little bizarre that the Netherlands, or especially Spain, are in the time zone centered on basically Berlin. Damn WW2. The sun doesn’t set until nearly 23:00 this time of year, and during winter isn’t up until nearly 08:00.

My blog used to receive direct traffic to various articles from search engines.

Now, 90% of hits are on the homepage with no search engine referral. I’ve blocked the bots in multiple ways, but they keep coming.

Google and the Open Web

1. Embrace

2. Extend

3. Extinguish <-- we’re here

Embrace

Extend

Extinguish <- Google is here with Android as an open platform

LOL, just as I started using an /e/os phone

Signal is flawless on my Fairphone with /e/os

Double win for right wing thinking: fill the pockets of techbros while white washing the underclass labor force.

Two decades. We’re old

Congresswoman from the Dallas area, yeah

Nobody asked for this

Obviously not applicable to bedrooms or private spaces, but it seems pretty normal in Northern-ish Europe, maybe Calvinist-influence countries, not to close curtains in the main living space. There seems to be a strong preference for natural light. And with how rainy or dark the sky can be depending on the time of year, people try to maximize natural lighting.

I maintain a small Windows dual boot for taking certification exams (that don’t run on Linux). It’s torture to update it once every 6 months. 3-4 hours requiring multiple reboots.

Where I live, people who close their curtains are treated with suspicion.

I still have some of my downloads from back in the day. 128Kbps mp3 😭

Every street is North America is a highway. Straight, level, smooth, and intended for fast driving. The continent has designed streets not safe for human presence, fully supported by the older generations, and now they have the gall to complain about kids sitting indoors all of the time.

The American consumer always lets industries tell them what they want. It puts incumbent interests over progress or even rational market forces. Americans will become poorer as a nation as a result.