Yeah I cut my teeth on a TI-99/4a
I even managed to hook it up to my portable 4.5" black and white TV in my bedroom. Such resolution!
I’m a little bit too much on the cuff of Gen-x to have had a 300 baud, so I cut my teeth on a 1200.
I remember when we finally got our hands on some token ring cards and hooked them up during our LAN parties. Oh the warez that could be shared at those speeds…
Quite painful I’m afraid
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt
Yeah it did, it caused a mental shift on how you look at it from giving you something to taking something away from you instead.
I dont really feel tempted at all long term, because I had tried smoking one a couple years later and it was like sucking on an ashtray. Because I was no longer addicted I didn’t get the relief anymore that smoking gave, and that let me move on more fully.
I have been firing up The Powder Toy for well over a decade to kill time during meetings
This book was how I finally managed to quit smoking well over a decade ago.
Explore, expand, extend, exterminate
Empire building games, like Civ or Stellaris would be a 4x game.
Lol seegull. Clever
Nice. Looking forward to when I can do port forwarding without having to run scripts to keep it working.
Take your kid to work day used to be a thing for sure, but this was 30+ years ago.
So was interning for a day in middle school. I got to work with a mechanic on helicopters and go up in the second fastest helicopter in the world while they were testing out a new autopilot system. My dad had to sign a shitton of forms to let me go lol
If I’m desperate I’ll microwave it on 20% for 20 seconds or so. But these days I always leave a bit out.
Salted butter stays good for longer when unrefrigerated
Maybe use the glass to focus the sun and the wood for a floating fire to cook your sepsis fish
Try using the “scaled” version while browsing all, it lets all the small stuff pop up too. Just be ready to religiously block communities without hesitation to get things curated how you want
Good stuff appreciate all the info. I’m definitely a person that struggles with getting to sleep.
For my laptop I use redshift as soon as the evening comes on and it is very nice, which is what I was thinking when I saw you in these. Same thing but for reality haha
That was my first reaction too. I want them lol
Those are some spicy meatballs
We had typing in the 90’s, but that was on electric typewriters, and was in I guess what you would call middle school not elementary.
Later there was ‘Mavis beacon teaches typing’ as the earliest typing ones that was really popular
Others do exist as i’ve seen them in other posts, but I don’t know how many of them do or have a link for you.