I guess now we finally know why Babbage never finished building the Analytical Engine.

  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
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    1 day ago

    I’ve started defaulting to just saying “yes” with my family and pretending to fix it. I’m actually thankful for the laptop revolution, cause I can just say “it’s fucked, buy a new one.”

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        23 hours ago

        I have like a dozen old laptops with various flavors of Linux on them because of this. Can’t give them away cause apparently Linux is a scary word in this part of the country.