Also, the stupid name chosen by mid-1990s edgelords trying to be funny is still stupid.

I have an appointment to get my first tattoo this afternoon!

The sets of fancy expensive-looking porcelain plates and cups my older relatives all had on display in a glass-fronted cabinet for use on some theoretical special occasion, but no occasion was ever actually special enough to allow anyone to use it.

Talking of the news on September 11th, 2001, I had that day off and was sleeping in that morning when my sleep was interrupted by my (landline) phone ringing, I groggily answered and it was my best friend frantically telling me to put on the news. I fumbled, still half-asleep, for the TV remote while mumbling “what channel?” and she said “any channel!” just as I turned the TV on and, sure enough, whatever channel it was on was showing what was happening.

It’s a funny trope in film and TV to have characters generically tell each other to “turn on the TV/radio/etc.” without specifying which channel or whatever, and the required plot-fueling info just happens to be broadcasting live on whatever station is already tuned in. That’s the only day I remember that actually happening to me in real life.

I am looking way forward to posting images with alt text! They brought that in for 0.19.4 and it’s the one thing that I’ve been really feeling the lack of on here since the start.

And the world supports many free and open source OSes, many of which have no present ties to or support by the people or organizations who started the things they were forked from.

I see no reason why the next big browser thing couldn’t be a Firefox fork.

Firefox started as a fork of the Mozilla browser that was really good in its own right, got rid of bundled stuff people didn’t want from the previous project, gathered user and developer support, and caught on. Why shouldn’t a good fork of Firefox be able to do the same?

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CDProjekt/GOG said the same thing about Cyberpunk 2077, their biggest product ever, and in the year 2025 I’m still running the Windows version of that through Proton because they give no fucks.

That’s some serious lag when you can get that close to the thing and the textures still haven’t loaded. What’s your ping time?

I’m so happy to learn there’s still an active community going, and that book is an instant purchase. Thank you for the info!

I was so addicted to ZZT back then! The player-made worlds were such a delight, and my slow-ass computer which choked on so many then-current games ran them without trouble.

Now I want to try it out again.