Slashdot can do images? When was that feature added?

It's not like I had a choice at the time. Most software was only made for Windows so if you needed get shit done (like write a thesis) you were stuck with Word on Windows.

It all went downhill after MS-DOS 5 I think. They never quite recovered from that...

Jobsworth, n.
"an official who upholds petty rules even at the expense of humanity or common sense."

I've been wondering about this myself. People graduating now have been living on-screen for all their lives, but hardly ever question what a computer really is - as in, a really complicated Turing machine.

I get really strange questions when applying for jobs as a senior non-programmer (mostly automation, cloud, CI/CD, etc). Can I program? Well duh, who can't. Do I know python? Well duh, I can lookup the syntax (of course I actually do know python). People seem to think these are questions actually worth asking. Maybe we're transitioning into a world where you can't take knowledge like that for granted? Where juniors have never set a jumper switch, never bypassed the boot sequence to set a new root password, never cross compiled across architectures, never setup a home lab, can't setup a SQL server or speak to it directly, don't know how to setup a certificate authority, don't know how a file system works?

Do you want a ride? Im going there anyway.

I owned 5 Audi's over two decades.

As time went on it became evident that innovation had stopped. The first one was a Quattro (4 wheel differential) which had superb driving safety characteristics. On subsequent cars they took away the Quattro feature and limited it to insanely expensive models. The rest of the car stayed pretty much the same: same options, every iteration, just more expensive. Not a single feature improvement.

The integrated GPS never got any updates except for the ridiculously expensive SD card purchases, plus no way to link your mobile phone GPS to the damn thing even though it had been standard on most non German cars by then.

It was evident that VW Audi stopped being a car manufacturer a while ago and was just keeping the lights on until they had squeezed every last bit of juice out of their customers. Thankfully I was able to switch away from them eventually (company car).

Good riddance, I will never buy a German car again.

Precisely.

When anyone pulls the GDPR card it's almost always cause they're marketing your private data to everyone and their uncle.

Stop replying to yourself.

The amount of money is so low it could be stuck under that sign saying "Beware of the leopard". It's less than one tenth of the national debt of Belgium.

Tax payers will likely feel the tariff madness more.

I was on it before then, must have been hallucinating when I was using gopher and email.

A lot of companies in the world are actually European, but few people are aware. You mention SAP, which is actually German. Important pharmaceutic
al companies are officially US, but most of the work is done in Europe (remember the Covid vaccines?). Belgium has a huge chemical industry, which is all owned by US companies. Etc etc.

I'd rather live and work in the countries that make stuff and innovate than in the ones that have the stock market bling bling. Us Europeans will just survive and thrive, do our own thing and prosper. The US can have all the homeless people it wants.

Bullshit. You can ask for a $100 (or whatever) bond that you lose if you send spam. It's just another way to force people to go to your (even more crap) enshittified platform so you can show the market your "business model" is the greatest thing since the invention of the wheel.

Only if the tampering has any relationship to the accident IIRC. Like if you ignored right-of-way at normal speeds.

Tried it, but:

Thatâ(TM)s not a good idea â" and not just in the âoeyour mom wouldnâ(TM)t approveâ sense, but in the âoethis could cause serious injury, fires, or legal troubleâ sense.