Usenet.

And nothing of value was lost.

God I hate “screen time” discourse. Not all activity that happens on a screen is of equivalent value.

Santa has world class ICE at the North Pole. And cooling is very cheap there, so he gets a lot of extra performance out of his hardware.

I hear Mint is great if you want something simpler.

Parasocial relationships and extremely niche content. Many girls will do specific roleplays. You want a girl to fart on a cake while calling you James Baxter? Someone will. Hell, someone probably specializes in it.

Thinking about doing this for my parents is giving me an anxiety attack, thanks OP.

That’s not what DRM is and pirating has always involved extra steps.

With all the historical windows bloat that’s not surprising lol

China is a state capitalist regime lol.

Corporate consumer brands are crap now. If you want quality you have to buy from craftsman with janky websites they built in 1995 or sometimes on Etsy. There are still tailors and leather workers and so on doing their thing, but you won’t find them on Amazon.

I have a black and white laser but am considering color for crafting purposes. But the B/W laser has done well for years and rarely needs toner.

I am surprisingly ok with this.

I don’t know what “morally lazy” means as the author never defines the construct. Discord has an uncertain monetization model, sure. It’s not great for privacy. It will, no doubt, follow Doctorow’s “enshittification” model.

And then I’ll just spin up a Mumble server or something. So what? Should I feel bad for using a service while I can? Should I feel bad for having fun conversations with my friends? Maybe not everything has to be a fraught struggle of good vs evil.

How dare you call me out like this.

I think your next task is to start modding Skyrim so you can have the ultimate experience of spending more time setting something up only to spend a fraction of that time actually using it. XD