In my experience it’s been the opposite in most cases since around the start of the century, though (and 100% for about the last decade)…

I try to look on the bright side though; every day is the best day of the rest of our lives!

The expected bad thing is the best case scenario, though.

We might not know specifics of the unknowns, but we can (and most often do) know that they’d be even worse than the known in any reasonable scenario.

What about the knowns of tomorrow, though…?

What do you mean, it’s clearly a goverment officer, it says it right there on the ground!

always lonely

I don’t know, some rodents seem to make it work. Naked mole rats, beavers, prairie dogs… (I wouldn’t include herd animals, though; sure, they’re always surrounded by others, but there’s no sense of community, it’s always everyone for themselves, and screw whoever’s slowest… perfect example of being alone in a multitude)

Not that I recall, no.

My first one was a 65MB (or was it 85MB?) 3.5’’ parallel ATA one, and while the enclosure might have been shaped around the platter(s?) (could have been a later one, though) I don’t recall the motor being distinguishable.

Whole machine (my first PC proper) was a 286, 16MHz with turbo on, possibly 1024KB of RAM (I recall setting up autoexec.bat to ask me if I needed extended or expanded memory on boot, but could’ve been in a later machine; pretty certain the memory was on socketed DIPs on the mainboard, not SIMMs, in any case, so it can’t have been much, and 640KB was supposed to be enough, anyway), CGA, 5.25’’ and possibly 3.5’’ floppy drive, DOS… 4.something, I believe.

Good times.

Nero burning ROM.

Meh, burning CDs… ever had to worry whether you’d parked your hard drive’s heads before moving it, child…?

(To be fair, neither did I, probably; my earliest hard drive was already IDE, I believe, and those seem to have already had autopark, but the old lore was that you parked your hard drives before moving them, or the heads would scratch the surface, so park them we did.)

If you held them by a side and shaked them, they were definitely floppy.

If I understand it correctly, they’re arguing that any unauthorized “modification of the computer program” (i.e. the web page) is a copyright violation.

This wouldn’t only affect adblockers… this would affect any browser feature, extension, or user script that modifies the page in any way, shape, or form… translators, easy reading modes, CSS modifiers (e.g., dark mode for pages that don’t have it, or anything that improves readability for people with vision problems), probably screen readers…

This would essentially turn web browsers into the HTML equivalent of PDF readers, without any of the customisability that’s been standard for decades…

Batman is a lunatic occasionally playing rich playboy to finance his crusade against crime, born from untreated trauma.

And most of his villains are just as insane as him.

Gotham is basically a vicious circle of maniacs driving each other further insane.

The only advantage of tape was, at the time, it’s smaller size and portability

And not being read-only.

Also, you could spool them with a pencil.

Nice. The good old times…

That’s a cyberman, from Star Trek.

CA: Brave New World (Order) is about how slavery is okay when the President General does it and loves his daughter or something

What? Ross ended up in jail, and was never portrayed as the good guy…

what Captain America is up to these days. Is he already the poster boy for ICE?

Well, yeah, he basically was, for a while.

(These fascist types tend to identify more with the Punisher, though, despite the fact that he’d be the first to shoot them full of bullets.)

White smoke, pope, black smoke, no pope yet.

Not a pope.

It’s dead, Jim.