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Prison food.

Just wait until you see what’s in their budget next year…

Idaho - just as racist as the South, but with an extra helping of mashed stupid. There’s a reason the state worships the potato - anything smarter than one leaves.

There’s really no value in going to a coffee shop any more unless its to socialize, and the social element is dying by design. The coffee quality is never better than you can make at home for a tenth of the price, and most places are now redesigning their interiors so that they encourage people to move on, not hang out.

I mean look at the chair in OP’s pick - sit on that for more than 10 minutes and you’re going to have a crimp in your back. That’s an intentional design element to keep you moving and not taking up space for new customers.

You give me a coffee shop with big ass sofas and a piano and chess sets and wifi and I’ll gladly pay $5 a cup to hang out. I’ll probably end up spending another $20 while I’m there. But the coffee alone just ain’t worth it.

Sounds like Elon’s Bitter.

FedEx Ground? Checks out. I’ve worked for companies that banned shipping through them because of the insanely high breakage rate.

No, they weren’t, or you wouldn’t be here to make that statement. Simple as that. The world violently changed, but it didn’t end.

This is the messaging they use to keep you from ever trying to improve the future.

Look, every generation thinks the world is going to shit and will end in apocalypse during their lifetime. For the boomers, it was Cold War nukes - for us, it’s technonazis and climate change. Before that it was WWII and then WWI and so on and so on back through the ages.

And thus far, every generation has been wrong.

Because within in every generation is a core group of people who get sick of expecting good things to happen, and start making them happen.

The real question is what kind of person are you?

It’s better than getting a little behind.

Not sure why you got downvoted. Your statement led me to some research comparing the two and it backs what you’re saying. Have an upvote.

Still pretty happy with the purchase for my kid, as he’s both an artist and a student, so this was a good fit, and new Thinkpads start around $1k.

5 is being generous. At Netflix, you’re lucky to last one season.

Just picked up this Lenovo Ideapad for $640 for my kid . Nothing amazing, but I’m hoping it matches my previous Thinkpads in durability and longevity.

Basic detail - not great, but will probably suit your needs if you’re not doing game development or high-end data analysis:

Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3 Laptop 2025 15.6” FHD 1920 x 1080 Touchscreen, AMD Ryzen 7 5825U, 8-core, AMD Radeon Graphics, 16GB DDR4, 512GB SSD, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, 720p HD Camera, Windows 11 Home

Excellent article, especially the detail to which it goes into how TRON handles files. This is pretty cool:

BTRON’s core idea was that the user-visible primitive on a desktop computer shouldn’t be a file or the application, but the typed document part. In other words, a block of content with a stable identity and a declared type. Parts can contain other parts, and the same mechanisms that embed a figure in a report can also embed a report in a workspace, meaning that there was no special case for a top-level file.

This model could be found across the interface as well, and you can browse a container in 1B/V3 and see each entry carries its type in parentheses after the name. For example, a document called 中国・韓国料理ガイド（図形）, meaning “Chinese and Korean Cuisine Guide (Graphics)”, describes this file as an image. In comparison, DOS would have given you an extension.

…but I’m curious as to how BTRON handled multiple file versions (backups, revisions, etc) if there’s not a top-level file.

Old skool definition of technopope - John Paul II in 1995:

The track he played

Disclaimer: this is all probably fake. Sadeness was old news by 1995. Also I’m high.

Because the rich pay the middle class to keep the poor in check. It’s that simple really.

It’s the deal the military and police have offered for a long time - recruit heavily from the underclass with the promise of social mobility, up to the next tier - the middle class. In exchange, you agree to oppress and/or kill people from your former social class.

It’s somewhat ironic that this meme is presented from the perspective of two monarchs, who clearly already understand the social dynamics at play, but hey, it makes for good rabble rousing.