It does almost feel like a failure on our part that the Gen Zers I meet typically see devices as completely solid-state and always online. But it’s almost one step further than that, there was somebody on here a few weeks ago talking about that being able to take your music in with you from the car would have been sci-fi in the 70s and I was like cassettes are portable… It’s almost like the tendency to look at past generations as less capable than your own has also been dialed up to 11 in the current crop of college aged Gen Zers especially. But this has just been my personal experience.

Because Georgia is Florida’s next door neighbor.

2010?

The ‘pod’ part of podcast comes from iPod, they are from like 2004.

They even tried to make ‘vodcast’ a thing when the video iPod came out.

I would love to rock the boat, but the boat is 20 hours away by car and my car is 15 years old… Also drones are expensive and so is gas.

Even if that one isn’t, there have been similar verifiably real instances.

To a certain extent you are describing normalcy bias but with an added bit of object impermanence.

I guess that proves the fakeness then though because emperor penguins usually stand around 4 feet in height.

You are probably right, but just as a fun fact; Penguins exist far outside Antarctica:

Not only are they different, Gecko is like 12 years older than Chromium.

Copyrights are a type of license not the other way around.

copyright(n.) c. 1729, “the exclusive right to make and sell copies of an intellectual production,”

license(v.) c. 1400, “grant formal authorization to do what would be illegal to do without it,”

Yeah… I don’t think you are right about that…

Patents in the US only last 20 years on stuff like this, the problem is that lawyers are crafty. So they will patent the formula and then 20 years later the delivery method or something like that. Thus preventing generics for longer than they should be able to.

Who’s the person walking in on the far right?

And then you actually have people being upvoted on here saying that they should be expensive because “they are a luxury”.

AFAIK Amigas are still in service in a few places, especially music studios.

We are talking about software built by, in many cases, volunteers. The only way it will get better, or good enough for the average person, is if those who can help do so. The only real alternative in practice is open source the way IBM, Google, and Oracle do it, and they wouldn’t do that anyway if the volunteers didn’t exist.

You could always move it and submit a pull request. That is one of the beauties of open source!

This is true of pretty much all software. So many people expect to be able to pick up LibreOffice office and use it like they use MS office and then get immediately irritated the button doesn’t look exactly the same and give up.

Here you go!

AMD’s version is called Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT). But just about everyone, even most motherboard firmware that I have seen, calls it hyperthreading still.