If y'all got kids, don't forget to teach them how MP3's and actual media files work, I see many young people nowadays don't even realize you can locally store your own music in a portable device-agnostic format. They're beginning to get used to the idea of not owning anything.

Corporations would have us all subscribe to the oxygen supply if they could.

Take apart all the things. Reverse engineer their shit. Create open alternatives. Fuck all these monsters. John Deere, Apple, Samsung, Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, everybody included.

Put your money where your mouth is and open source the Tesla software. Do it. I fuckin' dare ya.

Edit: we want Falcon 9's landing guidance software too.

Conditioning everyone to see their computers as media consumption kiosks instead of the powerful, productive machines they are. That's where MS OSes are headed. They tried too early with Windows 8 Metro, but they haven't lost sight of that concept.

"My TV shows ads so it's only natural my computer does too." - I bet a lot of people already think like this.

My kid discovered that he can hit the "report" button on the YouTube app on the TV to skip the ads immediately. So now every ad gets reported as "inappropriate".

I'm proud of him.

It's beginning. All over again. Fuck. We gon' have to destroy some Nazis again, aren't we?

For the millionth time, Stallman was right.

I'm pretty sure you can still fly a plane even in black and white. WW2 pilots did. /s

I didn't even know we had digital webcams in 1993, and I was very much alive at the time.

Edit: Haha I just did some more reading, these WERE the people who invented the first webcam. They literally created one just to watch this pot.

90s: stay anonymous, be careful with strangers, don't give up any more info than you have to. The internet can be a dangerous place. Also, supervise your kids and have them ask permission to go online.

2010s-2020s: livestream your life 24/7, use real names and emails everywhere when signing up for bullshit, hand your kid a phone and let them go buck wild as well.

How did we stray like this?

This is it. The original pioneers of the net are starting to leave us. I hope we can take care of their baby as well as they did.

I'm going to create a distro where EVERYTHING including your web browser is launched through systemd and it's built from nothing but snaps, just for you guys. I'll call it "Oops! All snaps."

This had to be the most short-lived tech trend I've ever seen in my 41 years. Tamagotchi lasted longer in its heyday.

Long ago, we praised Chrome for helping destroy Internet Explorer. Now it has become the same. No for-profit corporation is your friend.

"This smart toaster has ChatGPT integrated!"

"Why?"

"I don't know, isn't it awesome?"

When you can drive for more than a week straight and still be in the same country, needing to know other languages is a lower priority.

Okay? It was on a test stand. That's what test stands are for. Isn't stuff like this almost a weekly occurrence for them?

"No offense, but..."

[Offends]

We also got to see the rise of the Internet and the home computer revolution, as well as smartphones later on. We are the last ones to know what the world was like before all that. When you had to bike your ass to the local library just to look up a cake recipe, and "please allow six weeks for delivery" was the standard.

Anyway, does anyone wanna play Pogs? I got some cool new slammers here...

I like KDE cause it has a cute dragon. GNOME is a stinky foot.