I was working college IT support at the time when the first HP LJ 2500s came out. Started to see serious design/build issues with them, compared to the previous LJ M series. Been downhill ever since then.

I mean, WUT?!

on line 2 for Joseph Virek.

Oops, it happened again.

"Elon Musk’s X issues sudden temporary ban of eight journalists

‘I can’t think of anything I’ve posted lately that would be worthy of suspension,’ a journalist says "
10 Jan 2024

https://www.independent.co.uk/...

[closer astronaut pointing a handgun at the other astronaut]

"Wait, it's always been a scam?"

"Always has been."

How's Tumblr doing?

What other Slashdot tokens might show up?

Slow Horses, For All Mankind, Peacemaker, Severance, Russian Doll, Star Wars: Andor, Annika, The Great, Pennyworth, Dickinson, The Peripheral
These are all shows that took up space in my head this year and I still think about.

Not too many movies have done that for me. Most of them are fun at the time but when over, gone like soap bubble.

Rewatching Those Old Scientists;

Mariner: "Have you noticed how slow everyone talks?"
Boimler: "Yeah, and quietly."

and Lower Decks

[golf clap]

Wayland is something that broke my Fedora box / Nvidia card / Steam gaming when an update switched things from X-11 to Wayland.

#PitA

I'm guessing there's a huge load of outstanding bonds/stocks relating to development in this 'town' and with the Colorado River accords fallout last year, the developers are doing everything they can to keep prices up while they quietly unload their paper.

We should ship the e-waste into space and create a metal-rich asteroid to study, that's a lot closer to Earth than Psyche.

There were a few SF stories in the '90s that had a guy time travelling to the future and the folks there praising 20th century foresight in sequestering metals underground.

Or get the tech perk that automatically breaks down junk items.

(I just need to find what happend to it after the Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 update)