Quazatron

It’s not a new phenomena, but it seems to be growing.

I remember when perfectly functional scanners and printers were ditched because the new Windows version would not support them and the vendor would not provide OEM drivers either.

Nowadays they unplug some servers and you are left with an expensive doorstop. That’s progress, I guess.

effluencers

It perfectly describes their contribution to this reality. Thank you.

I jumped to Tidal many years ago because Spotify could not be bothered to provide high quality output. Yes, you can ear the difference, even on shitty gear.

For the stuff I could not get on either platform I started buying CDs on Discogs and ripping them to FLAC.

Edit: ear, not eat.

I’m sorry to disagree. I’ve been using Microsoft crap since the days where you had to free up memory in config.sys to load Novell Netware drivers, and never has Microsoft been the cool kid in town. It was always the fat bastard bully kid that would beat and extort the other kids.

That’s pretty much the only advantage of getting old.

I see what you did there…

I’m surprised nobody posted the surprised_pikachu.gif yet.

Maybe it’s time you invested some time in finding alternatives that let you stay in control of said hardware. I know time is in short supply for all of us, so consider your priorities.

Sorry, I was having one of those days, I guess.

I haven’t found a good way to filter by subject, so thanks for the tip, I’ll have a look.

I will down vote any and all news that referes to something that the Weird Cheeto in command said.

There are a lot of other neat inventions that deal with that.

The problem with traffic is caused by lack of investment in public transportation. Have a look at how they solved it in Paris.

Well, they do, but don’t cause traffic deaths.

Trains? We’ve been using those for over a century now.

So… did they find any new interesting digits there or just the usual 0 to 9?

The amounts of copium that Windows users are willing to swallow to avoid changing are reaching stratospheric levels. Inertia is one hell of a drug.

“To err is human, but it takes a computer to really fuck things up”

First time using Microsoft products, is it?

Bye then. Best of luck out there, friend.

A one time pad, I think it called.

That’s how it was done in the old days to save a few cycles in Z80 assembly. XOR A instead of LD A, 0.