And what about the computer that was used to write to the floppies?

An OS costs under $200 in 2026 dollars.

Seems to have gotten pretty cheap.

I think the concept is that if a company announces mass layoffs because AI yountax them per employee.

I assume what would actually happen is honesty in layoffs, notbtax revenue.

Because the there's about a 2%+ (Poland on the high end) swing in GDP for countries to feel internally secure.

That's either taxes or benefits cuts.

If we in the US get our heads out of our asses and start negotiating on medicine it'll be even more, since currently the US is funding a lot of medical research through high insurance prices.

No way they make half of them.

The vast majority of CPUs are ARM, and Intel isn't making many of them.

The reason Intel stayed flat (market cap) even as they pounded AMD in the bulldozer era is that they were also becoming a niche part of the CPU market.

I doubt it's AI slop.

Edge has been storing passwords long enough that I assume the password manager code predates AI coding.

Because a game optimized version of steam runs games well it can definitely run some janky office software written with weod MS libraries of 20 years ago?

Not sure the one follows the other.

That means 4% are using Linux on the desktop to game.

Obviously less than 5%, but I'm shocked it's only 23% on steak deck.

Steak Deck is great and what got me back into PC gaming. The fact that there are so many desktop users of Linux also tamony is surprising to me.

Somewhere between the 25th and 50th percentile of a stenographer that hasn't pre programmed names.

I always thought notepad++'s thing was it used native windows stuff for all the UI to keep light.

I did not know that.

I waited for 10-15 seconds of the HDD light not blinking.

They really slipped that in without thinking it through I feel.

I felt the same way about the iMac at first. Thets when I learned how painfully slow a floppy was. Email over dialup became the way to go.

DOS with caching could be a real risk since DOS didn't have a shutdown command.

You basically just had to do nothing for a bit and then turn it off.

We used them regularly for at least half a decade in the print business (probably a whole decade).

Floppies were super slow and too small. The internet was barely a thing (one of our locations had to share a dialup connection even). For $10-20 they weren't disposable, but it wasn't tragedy if one got lost (accidentally borrowed...).

It was quite a while before CD burners became cheap and omnipresent enough to take over entirely.

Essentially from the moment they came out until cheap 1gb USB drives existed they had a place. The were the speed of an 8x CD and couold easily be reused.

I think the primary issue with jazz drives is people treated the diaks like floppies but they were much more fragile.

People would throw them in bags, toss them across the table etc.

They were pretty great for expanding home storage, but unlike flying floppy tech (such as a zip drive) they suffered if being used for frequent transport and sharing.