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Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Natalie Portmans, naked and terrified, covered in hot grits!

(ye gods, how old is this joke now?)

But where will me mere nerds read about what Roger Federer eats for breakfast?

Hooo boy this comment section is gonna be fun.

I feel like the golden era of altruistic Linux Distributions has long died. It was great when it lasted, but it's a new generation at the reins and everyone's for hire now. The reward isn't always money, but it usually is.

Millennials are hitting 40. They're over the hill now, so their THC-addled minds are mush. This might be a thing for the GenZ kids, actually.

Waiting both of those minutes for the game to download is absolute torture!

This is Slashdot, nobody here knows how the Internet works. It's all just clouds and apps and mobile devices!

I feel like the term 'hack' (even in the wrong sense) is being horrendously overused these days.

If you'll excuse me, I'll have to go back to reading "15 Ways To Hack Your Breakfast"

...at the behest of their own health, sanity and personal finances.

This still sounds way more nefarious than the stuff Microsoft got hit with in the Antitrust suits. How is Apple immune?

I miss Sun. When I was getting into UNIX and Linux type operating systems, they seemed like the only looming tech giant that seemed like they were on 'our' side. I used to really believe in them, and it's sad that they've been eviscerated by a monster that now occasionally wears its skin.

Solaris 7 on x86 was my first UNIX, and even though I didn't have the best hardware for it (It was my first PC build also, and I didn't know anything about HCLs or the like) I still kept using it because I fell in love with it. My computer could dual boot Solaris and Windows95, and you can imagine what kind of a contrast that was.

Scot McNealy's quote is spot on, btw.

I held back from mentioning this... the part how you can be a 7 year old and just go spend an afternoon with some adult male without it being any sort of problem whatsoever. These days it is so very hard to believe.

As an adult male who now tinkers on stuff in the garage, I make it a point to shut the door to avoid any sort of 'trouble'.

I wonder if there was any 'elitist attitude' then. I mean, human nature doesn't change so surely there were people talking down to noobz and scolding them with a "Go RTF AARL Handbook!". However, as a kid growing up in the 70s and 80s I remember walking down the street on a weekend and just about everyone was out tinkering on something in their garage. Ham Radios, go carts, hot rods, RC cars/planes, model rockets, model trains, etc. If you showed even the slightest bit of interest they'd invite you in and give you the grand tour of what they're doing and why. Sometimes they'd even send you home with books and magazines.

I don't know if it's because I was a little kid, or if maybe 'nerd types' were more inclusive then. Greatest Gens and Boomers were always warm and inviting, and it was my own generation (X) that seemed to start with the elitist crap. Millennials often seem to be carrying that same torch. Perhaps Nerddom is diseased now.