Linux Mint and NordVPN user here. TBH the command line stuff doesn't bother me that much. But I've spent my life in computers.

Linux doesn't suck any worse than Windows, and it's beginning (with Win11) to look like a better option.

(Linux user since the early 2000s)

What could possibly go wrong? /S

This guy is supposedly a tech exec and he's hitting on an AI avatar? Does he not have a personal life? First in line for a robosex RealDoll?

Solved the problem from both ends, didn't we, Donnie?
Now, how about a nice game of golf?

I *think* these are the docs referenced:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eff.org%2Fdocument%2Fp...

Appropriately, the Wired link from the referenced /. link returns a 404 :-)

Laserjet 5 here. Firmware date on the test page is 1996. HP must hate me. Serves them right for building a printer that will outlive me.

I rebuilt it from a freebie, replaced the bad fuser ($150), replaced the chewed up drive gears ($35), maxed out the RAM ($20) and added a JetDirect 10BASE-T card ($15). It just sits in the corner, consuming 7W on standby, waiting for me to send it a print job. My Linux system acts as a print server for Apple and Windows. Still on my first cartridge after 3 years (I don't print that much).

F*ck the current HP, but their old stuff is worth saving. Mine has 300k pages on it, guy at the parts place said they still sell refurbs, and it should go over 1M if I keep it clean.

Embracing is different than converting.

I remember the attempt at metrification in the 1970s. The auto (and other) manufacturers screamed that they could not afford to make the change, and they'd have to shut down. Well, they got their wish, had to convert anyway if they wanted to sell internationally, but some of them stubbornly stick to the Imperial system when everyone agrees that metric is simpler, easier and international. My opinion: we (the US) should go full metric on some date in the very near future, and those who love the Imperial system should suck it up and deal with it. But then, I'm an old, cranky engineer, and unlikely to be in the majority on that question.

Oh, $DEITY, *please*!

Just finished helping my son do some cabinet building. 64ths, 16ths, 8ths...why can't it just be integers? (well, there's always 10ths of a mm, but I've never seen a ruler graduated that finely). And wrenches? a 7/32 is too small, what's the next one up? (well, all you really need is a 10mm, so buy several)

Back to the topic at hand...I think most of us would agree that the real PITA about Daylight Saving is the resetting of clocks twice a year. That's less of a hassle with intelligent and net-connected clocks, but my oven, microwave and refrig (why do appliance manufacturers put clocks on every appliance when one would be enough?) are not "smart" enough to remember when the switch comes. Neither is my car. The $20 clock radio off Amazon seems to be able to figure it out though.

Realistically, the question of keeping or not is one of those that just keeps on being a question, like putting the ground pin up or down when installing an AC outlet. It's never going to be resolved even if a significant number of us want it one way, because the politicians and lobbyists always seem to win.

It doesn't care whether you believe or acknowledge it, or not. It just is.

I personally know a public defender. He is one of the most dedicated lawyers I have met. So not *all* lawyers are assholes. I will admit that he's overworked and underpaid. But he *does* care about his clients, and fights for them in court.

Difficulty: Massachusetts. Offer probably not valid in red states.

I went to UMass Amherst, majored in Computer Systems Engineering. The first year I was there (1972), I checked out the computer center but didn't have a logon or a class.

That summer, I acquired the printer and keyboard of a model 33 (from the Honeyweel Surplus store in Framingham), and managed to talk the Teletype repair center in Framingham into building them into a functioning KSR-33 (thanks, Mr. Anonymous Repairman!). I then purchased an acoustic coupler to go with my new Teletype and brought them to school for the start of my second year. On the bulleting board in the Engineering building, I saw an ad from the computer center, asking for a part time Teletype repair person, "will train". Turns out my credentials of having my own TTY were enough to get me the job, which came with an unlimited time login to the mainframe. The school owned about 25 ASR-33s and I maintained all of them (including stripping them down each summer and overhauling them) for the next three years. My TTY was in use for schoolwork, from my dorm room, whenever I needed it (we had phones in the rooms, free on-campus calls)

One summer, I built and tested memory cards for a friend's SWTP 6800, and while I never used a PC until I got my first job, I did get plenty of programming experience in the CS classes I had to take or my degree. Ended up getting my first job working on the team that designed the Data General D200 terminal.

I thought about the timing...I believe it was the 1969-70 school year that we got the terminal. It was provided under a regional collaborative named Project LOCAL in the Boston suburbs. The summer before I had taken a summer school course in Wellesley that used a TTY connection to a computer at BBN. Pretty sure we were writing in BASIC for that one

It was a small dead-end corridor in the science wing. Room for about 6 kids if we squeezed in. No computer, just that ASR-33 with the modem CCU. You dialed up the computer at a public high school (a timeshared PDP-8 with 8? users) and ran your FOCAL-69 programs. There were no courses yet, that happened after I changed schools in my senior year.

A now unemployed one?