Damn, lol! We always laughed about “Hercules”, i now see even that was superior to MDA! TIL we had it “good” with CGA as kids 😅

If you could afford one! CGA/EGA were the best we had for a while. VGA/256 color was the stuff dreams were made of (and boy were we excited to finally get a computer that had it!!!)

I loved Netscape as a kid. I would stare at the little Netscape icon with the shooting stars while waiting for pages to load… Funny how little things like that seemed so magical back then ✨🖥️💖

Guess we’ll never know! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(I too, was disappointed to get a little ways in before hitting that same wall myself)

Thank you! Like i said, i figured there’s something I’m missing–that would appear to be it.

It honestly just never occurred to me that such a transformation was allowed/possible. A nonprofit seems to imply something charitable, though obviously that’s not the true meaning of it. Still, it would almost seem like the company benefits from the goodwill that comes with being a nonprofit but then gets to transform that goodwill into real gains when they drop the act and cease being a nonprofit.

I don’t really understand most of this shit though, so I’m probably missing some key component that makes it make a lot more sense.

Here’s my proposal:

I’ve heard the claim numerous times that people leave a tremendous carbon footprint. Each person would be assigned a certain amount of “carbon credits” that their life is worth, and the value slowly declines as they get older. If they choose to, one can hop in the expiration bin and donate those remaining credits to a cause of their choice: they can give them to their children, family, or friends, donate them to a charity or research group, etc.

I can just imagine the ads where companies try to compel you to take the early-expiration route while relinquishing your credits to them “for the greater good” or some other such nonsense

Children mass-produced for the glorious stream of carbon credits it would award

Microsoft, Amazon, Tesla et al provide “expiration tanks” in convenient places that send the credits directly to them after each “donation”

Wtf i need to go back to sleep, lol

Night night lemmy ✨

Paper Linux, computing done olde world style 📜 🤖

Exactly–and someone had to make the unpopular decision to announce it and weather the first round of criticisms. They also will be the first to profit from said stupid idea when they roll it out and the dumbs line up to buy it for fomo reasons or whatever

And they say no one wants to work these days ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Plus all them decks for solitaire!!!

While i figured the cost would be a factor, i just figured they were sticking with a system that works. If it serves their needs effectively and reliably, why change it?

Edit: answered my own question–it doesn’t work anymore, and that’s why it needs to be changed

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/southwest-cancels-thousands-more-us-flights-weather-stays-bitter-2022-12-27/

Boy is it easy for him to do stupid shit

Hey, it’s just $2,300,000,000

Can’t even feed a packed homeless shelter for that much ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

My buddy works IT for a company and that 20% chance is one he encountered just last week!!

They are, but also they are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Fake it till you make it! (งツ)ว

I take back my chuckle

I’m just gonna go ahead and believe this without further research, that’s too good an explanation to let go of, lol