No, back in those days these were very much hardware/firmware based. It’s a decade before the SD standard.

It’s also from a period where Windows machines were riddled witb viruses that spread by USB. This prevented your drive from getting infected.

This is probably my favourite metal flashdrive of all time. I had a 1GB of the first generation and then later another usb3 one of 32GB

These days I carry one of these on my keychain.

Surprisingly fast given the size. Will do 300MB/s sequential read. About 90MB/s write

I use medicat/ventoy on it with windows 11 , debian and linux mint ISOs on it.

One of these took me through university in 2002

I really miss the hardware read only switch.

Computer labs did not have front USB back in those days, so we had to choose between floppies or diving under the desks. I was in the diver club.

32MB was massive for documents at the time. It could hold your entire academic life back then.

This is why you should always give your developer “free dev time” where they work on what they feel like, or what they think is important outside of the approved scope.

They have fun and will likely fix something your players will be asking for.

Someone is going to stream that 0.1% run on twitch and market the hell out of your game. Just look at Luality that completed dark souls with a DDR dancepad.

Amazon mechanical Turk service.

In the future your robot waiter will be a Asian working for 6 cents an hour.

Until it’s wings “Snaps”.

Ubuntu does so much good, this is one thing I wish they would abandon.

Or at minimum, not have it as the default option.

I would love to do that, but GoG does not have the better regional pricing that steam does.

Exactly. LLM makes you do the same stupid shit, but faster and with more intensity.

Its not AIs fault, its advertising based SEOs fault. Search has been broken for years for many topics.

404, sense of humor not found?

This was in early 2000 New York and Washington DC. Spent about a month there and saw it daily.

Going out in public in your pajamas.

How difficult it is to find fresh produce in small shops (food deserts)

How much fat is in all the meat.

How old and badly maintained many of the roads and bridges are (I am from Africa, so that says something)

The levels of national arrogance.

Woven core rope memory for me

Prosthetics that are no longer supported, should be fully open sourced.And the copyright should immediately expire.

Support your products, or let others do it.

Saying someone is ignorant is not calling them stupid.

Someone who does not understand that difference, while having access to a dictionary on the other hand…

I was not talking about Tokyo, I was talking about German cities that were firebombed.

Firebombing multiple German cities was fine?

You need to educate away your ignorance.

Lots of stolen US aid money

I don’t have much of a problem with the small open source projects that are generally very good at filling gaps or addressing niches.

I think most of the waste is coming for the development done by the large open source houses. The canonical and red hats of the world. They should stick to what they are doing well, which is the foundational stuff.