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It depends what packages you need, and what they have to interact with.

If it’s all standalone then no problem until the hardware degrades.

For example I had laptop (DOS/Win98 ) with a pcmcia network adapter with BNC 50 ohm coax network dongle, 9/25 pin serial/parallell ports, maybe p/s2 port, floppy drive and so on.

I can’t think what I’d connect that to I might have a parallell port on my PC, but on that laptop I think I only had laplink so I’d need a linux app to interact with that. I do still hve a floppy drive somewhere, but how to connect that to my motherboard?

So I’d probably be limited to keyboard and trackball input, and audio + (monochrome) video output.

lemmings on black and white, blurry, slow refresh rate would still “work” unless the hdd got corrupted.

Within a lifetime current gen wifi, usb, ethernet etc may all be as rare as 9 pin serial is today - it’s still around of course, but you cant rely on it.

Beta Testing Weenie cough I mean Best Tech Wizard

“. . . Wes Streeting as a politician”.

Please use NSFW tag for such abominable gore.

Stan showed how in southpark s14e04. It was very easy.

Yeah but make sure you get the high mocktane stuff, too weak and you end up with punypunk.

In the 1990s all internet data was transported by snails using these things called AOL CD-ROM packets.

With the TC-AOL-CD-ROM protocol, you had to keep on gluing a copy of the same CD to another snail every day and sending it off to the recipient, until you get one back confirming the reciept.

If you do enough annoying wordplay to cause enough people to boil over with anger you can get Punpunk.

Every problem is a nail if you hammer it hard enough.

obligatory garth marengi

https://youtu.be/AFDWFTiKwss?t=143

noobuntu vs arch-hole

Haha, i’d write a thousand pages of documentation before entering ticket hell. I fact I do put a lot of information into the ticket - they still won’t read it though and i’ll have to repeat myself 15 times to 5 different people.

The solution to this problem. . . I have no idea, but I’m sure they’ll appoint another delivery manager who will get hired by the ones who already know fuck-all to know less than them.

I’ve found that the few managers who want documentation, get documentation, and the others who want tickets and “story points”, get tickets and fictional bullshit - in general.___

Some cafes will do it - not as standard, but a few - maybe try the ones trying to be 1-up from a greasy. https://seahousescafe.co.uk/the-breakfast-menu

As will many hotel breakfasts, there’s often little single serving marmite things in with the single serving jam packets. I’d say about half the hotels i’ve stayed in with decent cooked breakfast have had it on offer.

I’ve also seen it in little roadside food van / trailer type things too.

Anyway, you want sainsbury’s yeast extract instead of marmite, it’s way gloopier and nicer tasting.

"Hey, there’s Evan. "He’s a young guy. “He likes the Stereophonics.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRZ-IxZ46ng

If there was a God and it was an actual conscious entity, how could any human ever comprehend the motivations or intentions of such an entity. It can start again from scratch in 6 days - it’s not an ecologically constrained being.

It might be like a fighting dog trainer - the trainer might like it, feed it , take it for walks, abuse and traumatise it and so on, or it might not - just like God might. But after it loses it’s last fight, they can just get a new one.

God might care, but has no reason to. He could just as well be fucking around for a laugh. Or doing some scientific experiment, or fish tank, or it’s just an art project to show off to break the ice at parties. No human could ever know.

So it’s just not worth wasting time thinking about - unless you’re charismatic enough to disempower the charlatans and demagogues who do claim to know the will of god. If that is the case, good luck to you.

Are you arguing that imperfect anti-trust is worse than no anti-trust?

Usually anti-trust is based on proving market concentration and abuse of market power - so to prove a monopoly you have to show impaired consumer choice, and persistent supernormal profits / price fixing.

I don’t know if that’s true for these markets you’re talking about, in my country medicines are mostly generically prescribed with govt price regulation for most common medicines. That mediates the abuse of market power.

As for food I think there are usually alternatives. I suspect there are market power abuses going on but more subtle ones in the wholesale / middle market. Most nestle type stuff that i’m aware of has readily available cheap alternatives.

Monopolies are already allowed under patent of course - so I assume you’re not talking about that. Although I think patent extensions are maybe a problem that is at odds with anti-trust.

I’d be Interested to hear what the individual citizens can do to shut down monopolies though? If it’s as simple as “don’t buy their stuff” then it’s not really a monopoly; or, it’s a luxury in which case - meh, choose another passtime.

Royal Order Trebuchet Flatten Levant

Werner von Braun?

radioactive cheese