I typed in (and modified) most of the games in this book: https://www.atariarchives.org/...

Also, BASIC was a far better teaching language than Pascal

Not to mention that SystemD configuration actually uses the equivalent of the joke COMEFROM statement liberally.

"Fun to use"? Why in the world would I want a sudo that's fun to use? What's next, including delicious candy in the president's nuclear football? Perhaps instead of the annoying BONG BONG BONG when the kids take off their seat belts, the car should play Baby Shark. They might as well enjoy themselves before they go through the windshield.

Definitely 10 bladed razors with 3 lubricated shaving strips and a vibrate setting but no attempt whatsoever to make sure the blades are aligned.

Unlike SystemD and Freedesktop, OpenBSD doesn't have a history of trying to cram things down people's throats. Doas isn't a threat because OpenBSD is EXTREMELY unlikely to ever try to cram it in if it's not freely adopted.

For a few years now, I have seen Freedesktop's involvement in ANYTHING to be a big red flag. They've soiled themselves too many times to be trusted, complete with gaslighting and marketing tactics (but I repeat myself) when their technical arguments fail to carry the day.

OTOH, it looks like the SystemD developers do exactly that.

Kind of like in Alien.

It's sad if they can't handle a server anymore. I say that because server management has gotten about a thousand times easier than it was in the '90s. These days, so many servers have a built in iKVM with remote media capability. And not that Java based crap where whatever version of JRE you have is the wrong one (run anywhere my ass), it's HTML5 based and just works.

The old days where you used a script to make all of the network changes (but not configuration changes) with a time delayed reboot to back out of the changes just in case you can't connect back to the server are gone. No more hacking a PortMasher to support serial consoles (at least if you had the sense to use some flavor of Unix on the server). Now you just ssh to the right port on the management IP and there's your serial. No need to call someone to push the reset button for you.

Are you REALLY trying to tell us AWS has NEVER gone down?

Create a cloud account at your own risk!

When you're subject to usage pricing, you never know what sort of unintended interaction will cause your bill to go nuts.

I would not be surprised if this weren't the only example of somebody not doing anything wrong, and yet incurring huge charges for things they didn't do.

What competition though? The Ambulance will take you to the closest hospital and they bill you whatever they care to bill you. If you need "Panacesq", there is one and only one manufacturer and you better pay what they want if you want to live. Where's the competition?

You want an all inclusive price for something? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Yeah,no.

If privatization is so great, why does healthcare in America cost more than double that of any other developed nation but we're in 26th place for outcomes?

Honestly I'm not sure if the proponents of privatization remind me more of Linus in the pumpkin patch waiting for the Great Pumpkin or Charlie Brown being sure Lucy won't pull the football away this time.

Many forms of socialized medicine leave others completely free to set up a private practice if they believe they can do better. All of them buy supplies and medication from companies, only manufacturing for themselves (really contract the manufacturing) as a last resort. The same companies that ass rape Americans in need of medication willingly sell at much better prices to various countries' socialized medical systems. They may not prefer that, but wave a dollar and they'll jump through the hoop just fine.

Just get an older one (I'm sure Goodwills and eBay is swimming with them). The darned things never seem to break. My alarm clock was a free gift from the electric cooperative that my mom received in like the early 1990's. She gave it to me since she already had one - that thing went with me to college and back and is still waking me up every morning.

Yeah - I understand using your phone as an alarm when travelling and such, but if you normally sleep in the same place every night, it just makes sense to setup a fixed alarm clock there.

While I USUALLY have my phone in my bedroom, there's non-zero chance it might be downstairs or over in my home office. That fixed alarm will still wake me up though.