I'd say yes, though I understand why you might say no. It kills me a little inside every time someone says "literally" when they mean "figuratively", but rationally I know that the word is changing (has changed?) meaning, and it is just used to emphasize the speaker's point. It's an eternal struggle for those who try to keep the language in check, and those who don't. In the end, it always changes, no matter how hard anyone tries to stop it. The rate of change of the language just depends on how those two forces balance out.

And yes, this is now way off topic, but frankly it's the more interesting part to me (nothing against Goldeneye). I don't think it's pedantic, but I think that just depends on whether you find the topic of language change interesting or boring. Personally, I'm fascinated by it.

Actually, in language, something being right just because it is "done a lot" is why we're not all speaking Latin (or whatever, pick an ancient language). That's how language works. If everyone uses ROM to mean something, then that is what it means.

All TikTok users under 16 years of age are now...16 years of age!

Doesn't bring 'em in the way it used to

I'm a programmer (started on TRS-80), and I'm helping my 17 years old nephew learn to program. We've done a little of everything over the last few years, but recently we watched Ben Eater's 8 bit computer series on youtube, where he literally builds a computer from logic gates and simple chips on breadboards. He does an incredible job of explaining how computers work, and I think anyone learning to program would benefit from his series.

I got my Model I TRS-80 in 1979, and it still works like a charm. I just fired it up last week. I never got the disk drives, so it's the cassette model, 16k Level 2 Basic. I have the expansion interface, but it's not hooked up. I learned assembly on that thing, played Scott Adams Adventures, Big Five arcade games, Microsoft's Flight Simulator. And just last year I started learning how it actually works (I know/knew nothing about hardware) by watching Ben Eater's amazing videos. Better late than never!