I think there was a golden 20 year era for learning basic computing. If you were a kid somewhere between 1985 and 2005 you had to figure out some slightly more technical things to use a computer. I’m late Gen X and so was exposed early on to the Commodore 64 and MS-DOS, but kids working with Windows 3, 95 and 98 would have developed similar skills.

I can get very close to 1 Gbit on Ethernet but top out at maybe 400 Mbps on wifi.

I always feel happier and more relaxed when I’ve put in a full day of work vs just slacking off all day.

You don’t find the ads in Windows 11 valuable?

400 pages of “rusty razor blades”

Yeah, I was seeing it 10+ years ago in Chicago.

I think they were only supposed to be up for a limited window and they were near the end of their scheduled time.

I could get on board with this. Both were amazing at their best and pretty mediocre at their worst. I’d love to see what Carpenter could have done with some bigger budgets. Although maybe the results wouldn’t have been as good. He seems like the sort of director where necessity breeds invention.

It does what you need it to do because it does everything. Podcast Addict is one of the most feature rich apps.

I don’t use them myself but sort of get why people use dishwasher tablets, but laundry pods/tabs make zero sense to me. Not all loads are the same size.

Yeah, I’ve experienced this one. It was huge and flew right at my head.

Yes, and interestingly the earliest cable TV in the US was built to relay broadcast channels to valleys where the signal wouldn’t otherwise reach.

We’ve tasted ad-less video entertainment and found it good. That said, for at least half a century OTA network TV required watching ads and most people didn’t care much because they didn’t have to pay cash for the service. I think many/most people have the capacity to tolerate ads to get what they want.

A killer ratio on a few trackers.

If it’s the end of the evening and you’re 47 with no costume and driving a beatup Civic, I’ll happily dump candy in your backpack so that I don’t have it sitting at home tempting me to eat it.

I’m not too picky with beer and am happy to try anything, from crappy macros to the local brew pub’s experiment with jalapenos. For me, these macro lagers serve the same function as soda but aren’t as sweet. They’re just something to wash down pizza or Chinese food while I’m watching a movie. Yes, there are “craft” sodas that cost a lot of money but Shasta is cheaper and gets the job done.

I wish there was a way they could have a single vaccine that included both COVID and flu.

20 gbps is going to require most people to spend significant cash for new networking hardware. These days most consumer hardware tops out at 2.5 gbps.

It’d be funny if you cross posted this question.

Also, please make your chocolate taste less nasty Hershey.