Slackware has never enabled CONFIG_SMB_SERVER in any kernel.

Thus spake the master programmer:
                "Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to
                be maintained."
                                -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"

I have literally no idea what an algorithm-free newsfeed or homepage would look like. Just blank? Something needs to decide what to show you. Even if you list every piece of content alphabetically by title, that's an algorithm.

Live sports is the one thing keeping the "cable bundle" alive.

IBM has used Notes since just after the acquisition of Lotus. I was actually working there during the time when they were transitioning e-mail from the system/390 to Notes. Not many people loved Notes, but it was an upgrade IMO.

In 2018, IBM was already the largest Notes user by far... I'm not really sure why anyone would want to buy it without getting IBM as a customer. Selling Notes and then forcing a transition was probably not the best idea. They should have written in the ability to fork it for internal use into the sales contract to at least buy whatever time was needed.

Ever been to a zoom party? Most depressing thing in the world.

I'm with you. My job used to involve interacting with people in real life. Now I do low quality (frustrating and exhausting) zoom calls all day.

Clearly it's Large Hadron Colliders all the way down.

I would say it's time to rise GrokLaw back from the ashes , but this is just too stupid to waste PJs time.

I've been to the majority of Fry's in the Bay Area. Back in the day (Early 2000s) they were a great place to go for computing hardware and electronics in general. Yes they had some quirks (different prices for the same product, very similar products at opposite ends of the store, and re-packaged returns), but hey, you could go in and buy an OEM-packaged CPU, some RAM, a few CDs, the latest copy of WIRED, a coffee and a sandwich and maybe a game or two. Those were the days. Best Buy wasn't even in the same league. RIP Frys. The old Frys.

There isn't really any proof that Waymo vehicles are driverless, only that the driver isn't in the vehicle. If you compare a dozen dubiously driverless vehicles to a million collecting data every moment and already doing a pretty good job at autonomy, which do you think will succeed?

The fact that the driver is not in the vehicle does not mean that there is no driver.

I believe that this was figured out in the amateur observer community before NASA confirmed it. I saw it go by in my twitter feed. Not sure I can find it now...

Theaters are going through a long "slimming" process. This has been slowly happening since the invention of the TV, but has really picked up the pace since the introduction of HD, the flat screen TV, and streaming. COVID-19 only accelerated this process. The quality you can get at home is mostly better than the theater experience anyway. Watching a movie in the theater is becoming less about quality and enjoing the movie and more about a "shared experience". I don't think that "shared experience" is going away, but I find it unlikely that theaters will ever recover to the level they were in the 90s. My prediction is that there will be fewer and fewer of them, but there will always be a few around.

> if the spinning-metal-disk industry was not facing extermination.

Is it though? Seems logical that SSD/Flash technology would take over because it's better in lots of ways, but the price per storage unit of a spinning rust drive is persistently tough to beat at the high end of the range. I would have thought that SSDs would have taken over by 2020, but I just bought a couple of spinning rust drives for my NAS. They were just far cheaper per TB than SSD solutions.