Still have my ICQ number memorized. It was awesome in the dialup age when people were gasp offline to be able to send them a message where AIM and MSN only worked if both parties were online. Mostly used AIM myself, but ICQ definitely had its place.

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It’s a bold strategy, Cotton.

Shh.

War can end any time you want, Russia. And no, you don’t get to keep any occupied territory. Just leave and don’t come back.

Yeah. I could see them deprecating O365 hooks and services or something, but the entire suite? That’s bullshit.

Every computer is a gaming computer. Some are just more capable than others.

A Ryzen 7 should be able to do light gaming without any trouble. My main system used for gaming is an older Ryzen 5 connected to a TV and it’s great.

Mind the gap … between the punctuation and the quotation mark. ;)

Looks like a 70s album cover.

Para beber, la Bomba

Depends on the kind of crack. Maybe he’s a plumber.

Nice. Definitely something to check out when I build my next HTPC.

Yes, but have you tried Reese’s Oreo-flavored Reese’s? I could swear I was eating Reese’s Oreos!

4/10. Pretty fun game, thanks for sharing.

What’s the minimum crew?

Disneyland now publicly acknowledges it uses face recognition, more like it.

I think you can do that at Ye Olde Home Depot for $20 an hour.

EDIT: spelling

Thankfully my company has made a huge push into updating the old stuff over the past 10 years or so. It’s got a long way to go, as there is debt in many areas, but what we have addressed so far is infinitely better in function, user experience and satisfaction, and reduced downtime. It does come with its own financial costs, but sooner or later there’s going to be no one around that knows that tech, and an ever shrinking hardware pool.

Running something on a cobbled together infrastructure can work for a while, but usually when it fails, it does so catastrophically, and there is little recourse but to immediately spend large sums for emergency parts and fixes, rather than spread that cost over time as just standard maintenance expenses.

It’s like driving your car until the engine blows up because you were mad about how much oil changes cost. Sure, you saved $50 per change, but then you blew it all on a $10k engine, so what did you actually save? Nothing! And you probably paid more than if you had just lifecycled it in the first place. It’s amazingly short-sighted.