where all the tubes and knobs rise out of it and retract back in

what the fuck

Ah, but yet…

I think it’s probably being in the age range that kinda straddled the time between now - when it’s all an unshakeable piece of daily life - and the time before it existed / was commonplace. Having grown up before all of these world changing tech advances, and then being there for the ride, is just a singular experience and perspective neither our parents or our kids can possibly have.

I’m really grateful for having gotten to take the ride, but it does strike me as sad in a way.

Just got mine set up this weekend, really works a treat! Utterly painless. Even put the client on the Roku I apparently don’t own, hope the pricks somehow notice lol

This is exactly right, and thanks for saying it. The assumption that poor people don’t understand money is just so completely incorrect, and frankly damaging. Poor folks understand money (and specifically, what it can and can’t do) better than anyone else on this earth.

Hey - I don’t usually do this, but I grew up poor and I get it. DM me, I’ll buy you the game.

How long have you spent with this? I ask because it’s frankly an impressive amount of detail and understanding you’re displaying, given your statement that you’d never administered an OS without a desktop environment. Kudos!

Are you familiar with iFixit? They provide a ton of technical manuals from what I’ve heard, but I haven’t personally used them. Also be aware of library.kiwix.org - they’re a Swiss charity that provides archival downloads of knowledge bases, including iFixit. They might have more resources that you’d be interested in too.

Well spill the beans ya old goat, which two games?!

Reads to me like “a thing arriving via evolution does not assign any kind of moral value, good or bad, to the thing”. Maybe going so far as “we should use language more carefully”, but now I’m really reaching.