I did once, for about nine months when I was 18.

Then an exorcism happened, I became doubtful and finally stopped believing.

I changed jobs during the pandemic. I asked if I could work remotely permanently, they said yes. It’s in my contract I work from home, not the office. I’ve been watching the “sea change” as working remotely has been removed from various companies and wondering why? If all the research points to it being better, then - again - why? The speculation about it being related to real estate is depressing!

Oh the horror! I have a laptop running Linux! Two laptops even!!!

Somebody help me!

Windows is too bloated to run on said laptops. On one, during it’s life, it could barely do an update! I eventually wiped Windows and put Linux on it. It worked fine, just not very fast. I mean 4Gbytes is a bit of a squeeze.

12 years I think for my imekon account on reddit.

I deleted mine by hand, they still returned. I’ve taken to editing them and replacing the text with [deleted]. Seems to be working better for now.

My main system is Windows, I’m a Windows developer. My older machines are Linux - because Windows runs like a dog on them and no longer supports them.

from what I’ve seen about Tesla, reliability is a factor. Here’s a quote from Which, a good place for reviews in the UK: “Tesla cars garner a lot of hype for their innovations, but reliability isn’t one of their strengths, according to our annual survey of owners. In our latest reliability survey, the Tesla Model 3 performed well in a number of areas. However, the fact that 28% of owners experienced at least one fault (well above the average) consigns the Model 3 to a three-star score for reliability.”

had to remove cookies from lemmy.blahaj.zonw for my login to work

I wrote to Texas Instruments and they sent me back a paperback book describing every TTL chip from 7400 upwards. I read it cover to cover and learned quite a bit about TTL logic back then. I used TTL as the glue logic getting everything going, as well as 68xx and 65xx series chips to cover all sorts, like ACIAs, PIOs and video controlllers.

The internet did not exist back then. Even though I worked for a large American computer company with their own private network (text only), still no internet as such. It was called books and libraries back then. Oh… and no Amazon either.

Been OK. Used to go on marches but my partner’s recent operation has reduced that quite a bit. We used to go every year here in London (and sometimes Brighton). We saw Pride in Canada a few years ago… it was odd to us seeing our hotel celebrating it.

I still remember my first gay pride march in the mid '80s when it was political in the UK, and we marched outside No 10 Downing St and yelled “Gay Rights!” back then.

I worked on DECmate - the PDP8 system that DEC had for wordprocessing. I learnt the machine code instructions to support the software.

300baud from work. Fun times logging in with it. Eventually moved to 2400baud.

The Saga of Tanya the Evil - rewatching again, loved the series and the story.

I remember thinking the world to be harsh place long before I figured out I’m gay. I didn’t want children and got told, “oh you’ll change your mind”. I never did.

Seems pretty reasonable, even the federated stuff works fine - unlike Mastodon, oddly.

A long time ago… when games were using ASCII characters and were called Adventure, Rogue, Moria, NetHack et al… I started creating something I called “The Wandering Wizard’s Castle”. It never went anywhere because the machine I wrote it for only had 4K bytes of RAM…

Anyway, being a games developer never entered my mind until I joined an audio company and started porting their 3D audio library to Windows device drivers and supporting a bunch of hardware companies trying to be in that space.

That got me exposed to audio and to games! We played Unreal Tournament or Quake at lunchtimes and had all the insane audio taunts installed. It was a fun time… and eventually lead to me joining Codemasters in their audio team and working on some of their racing games.

Racing has never been an interest of mine. Seeing the scene rendered, yes… that was interesting. Seeing how audio gets used…

Then after ten years out of the games industry, I’m back, working on a massive online space sim and finding I actually like playing the game - either on my own, or with others.