Boy, that was before I could afford a C64 with the money I made with my first computer.

Been there, seen that, but got no T-shirt

I am what you would call a boomer. But I do not only know how to rotate a PDF, I also know how to generate one from a number of sources with software I have written…

Oh yes. And it was a big, big upgrade from having to retype everything each time.

I was there when I upgraded from nothing (I.e. having to retype a software every time) to tape recorder. No other media change after that felt ever so good.

Even worse: how about M.U.L.E.?

Exactly. On the long run, we settled down on what we called a common calibration, a setting that allowed all of us locals to exchange tapes without constant tweaking.

I remember my first written CD. You put the CD into a transfer case and slide it into a large box. Shortly after, the empty transfer case comes back out. You have already prepared your CD image, not as a project or file, no, you had to prepare it as an image on its own partition, on a disk that did not host anything else.

Then you shutdown your computer, and reboot it basically into the burn program, which then tries to move the data fast enough from the disk partition to the CD burner. The speed, of course, was 1x, so this write operation could last an hour and a quarter.

Then, your computer reboots back into the OS. You put the empty transfer case into the writer, and after some time, it comes back out with the media. And now you can finally put in into a reader and read it and compare it to the data on that partition. Knock on wood, or whatever. Because about half the writes failed, and the media cost a fortune.

They are probably already jacking off to such ideas in the GOP.

Imagine the kids get smart and start thinking on their own as adults. They would no longer vote Rep. Imagine that!

Ftfy: WTFL

Reduce minimum age for sex workers to twelve…

Put some water on the plate before putting them into the microwave.

Microwave heats water, water heats plate.

I cannot see a single reason why this would backfire.

Once upon a time, there was an MP3 player. A quite old one. It could just about play an MP3 with variable bit rate, but was horrible at guessing the total runtime. It basically took the first chunk or whatever and used its bit rate and the total file size to guesstimate it.

In comes “Waiting for Custeau” from Jean Michel Jarre. A piece of about 45 minutes, but as the first few seconds are rather eventless and therefore having an extreme low bit rate, the player estimated a total run time of about two days.

My coworker back then, a fan of Techno music, was a bit annoyed about the slow and relaxing sounds and stated something like “how long do I have to endure this crap”, and then looked at the display. That face was priceless.

They will be mining oranges…

You expect them to survive in a mint-infested ground?

There is a reason why I planted my piperita in a pot, far off the ground.

It is always a question of perspective.

Like trying to get two people sitting opposite agree on whether the number is a 6 or a 9.

They should be more precise: “Trumps tariffs are a tax on your grocery bill”. Anyone elses would be, too, yes, but no-one else is that stupid.