Idiocrat

There’s a Youtube channel called Ben Eater that does a great job of explaining computing from first principles. He built a computer out of discrete components on breadboards. He also has a great series where he wires up a 6502 microprocessor and basically builds a little 8-bit microcomputer around it, again on breadboards, in a way that you’ll get. He sells them as kits, so you can play at home if you want. They’re also just nice educational evening calm time viewing.

“Work” computers will often have legacy ports because maybe you need it to connect to some old printer.

There are a lot of places still using old-style dot matrix printers or other weird old hardware. Point-of-sale systems made to this day often come with a bunch of serial, or not quite serial, ports.

Look, I’d like to see that little shit do better.

Well that’s nice of them.

You think they licensed that from…it would be Disney now?

The all-new Ikea Cjardboord.

I’ve been summoned a couple times. Was paid $12 for not being selected to the jury. I think you’re off the roster for awhile? They were about a decade apart.

You can’t say the phone companies should block calls from unverified numbers while at the same time saying Google shouldn’t block download of unverified apps.

Sure you can. There’s a difference: Whether or not the owner of the handset requested the traffic.

A random APK from F-Droid isn’t going to suddenly demand my attention while my phone is sitting on my desk with the screen off. An Indian man threatening to jail me if I don’t mail him Amazon gift cards has and will again.

You’re not going to find an Obama Hope edition firearm out there.

What’s Merrell?

I once named the disease “The Disease From Madagascar” and it started in Madagascar.

I also killed the world with a bacteria called Red Ass.

Ugh, my dumbass boomer father.

Okay. 1. My father goes by his middle name. Let’s pretend his name is Christopher James Smith. He introduces himself as Jim. For my entire life, it’s been easy to screen calls for him because “Hello, may I speak to…Christopher Smith please?” That’s spam. “Hey is Jim there?” That’s someone who knows him.

2. The dumbass answer the phone “Hello, this is Jim?”

If I was in charge, all phones would be required to have a built-in taser. The recipient of a call should have a button they can press to tase the caller. This taser must be strong enough to seriously injure a human, like, burn ward you never hear out of that ear again strong enough, or strong enough to set any computer that phone is attached to on fire. Capital offense to remove or disable the taser from a phone.

That would solve the problem I think.

They did have blue labels though.

Every Zima I’ve seen was clear.

I don’t give a shit if you’re from Long Island, the far tip end of Maine or Danville Virginia, I catch you bitching out a retail worker about how things are done “up north” you’re what we in the South call A Fucking Asshole Who Needs To Go Home.

North Carolinian here: The asshats from New England especially New York who move down here to escape their native climate and/or manmade hellscape and then scream at retail cashiers for not saying thank you are yankees.

We don’t care how you do things up north. If you liked how things are done up north, go up north.

It would unbecoming of an officer and a gentleman!

At text sizes I’m comfortable with, emoji almost always render too small. It’s easy for me to tell :) from :( but 🙂 and 🙁 are yellow circles. To tell them apart I have to lean forward.

Or you get into the noun ones that aren’t facial expressions, people use wrong. There’s an entire group of pictograms but they’re added redundantly to words. So you don’t get “I stuck a 🌵 up my 🍆” you get “I stuck a cactus 🌵 up my dick 🍆” for no reason I can think of.

Combine that with the fact that…I nearly never open the emoji drawer and find an expression that conveys the actual expression I want, and yeah emoji were a mistake.