I never owned a Saturn growing up, but it’s endlessly fascinating to me because it was from just the right era to somehow have both
Every time I pronounce microk8s “micro kates”, I feel bad for besmirching the good name of all the tiny Kates out there.
Me: Okay, E3 is out of business, but is Comdex still a thing?
Wikipedia: The last Comdex was in 2003.
Me: oh
Callout post (me): Has a beautiful DM42 calculator sitting on the desk less than a meter away, still habitually grabs phone to use PCalc half the time anyway.
Hot take: The Alternative Factor (TOS, 1967) is a perfectly good science fiction television episode for its time. The problem is, it's a Doctor Who episode that somehow got made for Star Trek instead.
Shoutout to lances which are also spinning drills. Gotta be one of my favorite toku weapons.
I understand the practical reasons behind it but every time I encounter the term “kilowatt-hour” I’m all “okay but what is that in joules”.
(The answer is 3.6 MJ.)
Automotive fans are all gas station this, BEV and ICE that…I love a good fountain drink as much as the next person but you don’t see me going on about it.
Thinking about the generational divide of growing up with mimeographed school printouts as they were slowly replaced by photocopies, and how it’s a divide that’s probably fuzzy at the edges (in the US at least) due to geography/socioeconomics, like most school things here.
Sending a support request in to a hosting service I have happily used for many years: Hello, I am experiencing some weird issues, here is my detailed bug report, also I used the word “regression” so you can be sure I’m an engineer, thank you so much
Sending a support request in to a social network undergoing corporate enshittification: A modal dialog popped up advertising [TERRIBLE NEW “FEATURE”], and it only had passive aggressive options to dismiss it, so I force quit the app instead