I worked for the department that ran student computer labs (before most people started bringing computers to college with them). That’s where the real epic lan parties happened. Every time we’d update the desktops we’d celebrate with an all-nighter lan party for staff and friends.

Other than paying for tuition and dorm housing, yes.

Hey! How are your knees?

The 90 minutes drive from where I grew up to my dorm room.

They’re famous to business bros too. Something like 60% of large US companies are incorporated there, regardless of where they’re actually based. Before e-filing a flu case in Delaware could have become a pandemic based on CFO travel alone.

I went to college in 1997 and went from 28.8kbps dialup to a 2.4gbit OC-48. I had no idea how slow the rest of the internet was until I had a better connection than most servers (at the time).

Edit: I was connected to the dorm ethernet via 10mbit NICs. So even with 5 PCs running in my dorm room, we were only using a fraction of the available bandwidth.

It’s like telnet, I’m happy to know its there when I need it but I’d rather not need it.

I got to leave RS-232 behind a couple years ago when I no longer needed to maintain my own rack switches. My condolences.

We’re only 5 years on from the US defense system relying on 8 inch floppy disks (out of production since the 80s), and Sony only stopped producing Betamax in 2015.

Formats have long hidden lives when enough money gets spent on their implementation.

I don’t use any of meta’s products so I don’t know what it’s like there, but youtube is getting worse by the day. I’ve stated to reject videos unless the creator is visible from time to time so I can put a face to the voice (or hands to the voice in the case of This Old Tony). And with video gen being released, soon I won’t be able to have any trust in those videos either.

Its getting hard to tell (at least right away) whats been made by people and what’s been made by AI. Just yesterday I was telling my wife, I’m sorry but I cannot fulfill this request. It goes against MaximumDerekAI’s acceptable use policy.

So I guess he’s given up on buying Greenland as the 51st state.

That would cut into profits.

How much did Leon have to pay to plant this story?

I’m not celebrating, I just think we should have a massive “Enjoy hell, Brian” wake, on the scale of Boston after the Red Sox won the world series for the first time in 80-something years. But nationwide.

I used the docker-compose template and it worked straight away. The one thing I have run into is that I can forget to update the server long enough that the app will stop connecting. That’s happened either once or twice.

I use Immich, which I host locally.

Yeah, I barely looked at Lemmy Thursday - Saturday.

Interesting, I kind of hope they’re right. This is at least the third time I’ve heard the “family has evidence that dad was DB Cooper” story (including one from my home town), so it’d be nice if someone put the mystery to bed.

There’s some misinformation out there about using glue, but the real secret is crumble some fresh asbestos over the top.

That’s why I always pepper all my social media posts with misinformation.

BTW, did you know most convenience stores offer free ATMs to anyone who can haul them away? You don’t even need to ask.