That's not a boy scout merit badge I'm trying to go for anytime soon.

Anybody can come to the party as long as you bring your own beer.

The AfD brought crack.

I'm surprised you didn't get the bsdgames package for your distro for a standard set of timewasters like Tetris and classics like "Hunt the Wumpus".

Your comment needs a soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDBbaGCCIhk

SCREEEEEEEEEEECH
WHIRRRRR SCREEEEECHSCREECHSCREECHSCREECH WHIRRRRR SCREEEEEECH

That was my bedtime song growing up along with wardialing modem noises all night, complete with strangers picking up and cussing at the silence on the other end, courtesy of my Dad.

Welcome back to 1985 I guess. Now you're going to need a green phosphor CRT and a dot matrix printer.

The good news is that afterward, some redneck drunkard scientist with a spare Titan II missile somewhere in Montana will give us warp drive.

What's so funny? This is how we played multiplayer Doom in 94.

Games just run better on my PC.

And they look better, have more features, are more customizable. PC > consoles since the 1980s. As soon as the PC got more than 16 colors and MIDI/digital audio, it has since kicked any console's ass.

The tradeoff has always been that PCs are much more expensive.

We used to say 4GB is enough. And before that, a couple hundred MB. I'm staying ahead from now on, so I threw in 64GB. That oughtta last me for another 3/4 of a decade. I'm tired of doing the upgrade race for 30 years and want to be set for a while.

I can literally trace my current Ryzen PC's lineage like the ship of Theseus to an Athlon system I built in 2002. A replacement GPU here. Replacement mobo there. CPU here, etc.

ESP32 microcontrollers can do Bluetooth and WiFi with less than 4.

As long as you call it a special military operation, everything's cool.

Never experienced Slackware so I can't compare, sorry. When I got into Linux in like, 2002, I was using Mandrake before they died, and didn't hear much of Slackware at the time.

I had a friend that was a couple years older that was running it on a home web server though. Back when people ran home web servers. This dude would sit there and use the keyboard the entire time even in OSes like Windows, he memorized every goddamn shortcut and macro that exists. Had a dusty mouse next to his system almost never being used. Probably just to satisfy the BIOS self test.

I use it because it feels like the most Linux-ey of Linuxes (Linuxii??). I don't know how else to describe it. It's like, no bullshit, just Linux. Here's the Lego pieces, go have fun.

You misspelled Windows 3.11 for Workgroups.

tada.wav 4eva

Take off every zig.

Well, despite its owner, SpaceX is actually doing cool and useful stuff. Nobody else bothered with the reusable rocket thing until they made it happen. Starship is on the way to becoming the world's first 100% reusable orbital transport system, propulsively landing the second stage as well as the first. Soon as they get those toasty melty flaps figured out.

It just sucks that he's in control of it.

We had remote starters in the 80s, they didn't need Internet access, they were a completely local wireless solution, just like old wireless garage door openers.

This motherfucker is not currently an elected politician. Why the fuck is a civilian having meetings and making deals with foreign leaders? I was asking myself that when he met with Netanyahu.

Skip having to do the earlier development by getting foreign capitalists to build factories on your soil and share their IP, and things get even faster.

"The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."