Not often I see my neck of the woods - I grew up in Burleson. In my religious upbringing days, we’d go down to a big Christian camp outside of Glen Rose. So I have mixed feelings about those memories. heh. But it’s really pretty down that way.

And this is a really nice shot :)

Between my dad and I, we’d accumulated several hundred floppies with software, pictures, data, whatever stuff we’d accumulated over the years. I embarked on a big project somewhere around 1998 or so to copy all the contents of the floppies onto my hard drive and sort through it all, and… I just… petered out after a while.

Whatever it seemed like worth saving just really wasn’t.

I discovered that’s largely true of my Downloads folder. Every so often I go move all the contents to an archive folder, and anything that was in the archive folder gets deleted. I always think “I should keep this around in case I need it!” and whenever I do need it (like a new computer or reinstalling the OS or whatever), I just go grab what I need or install using choco or winget or of course apt for Linux or whatever… Docs/pics/vids I keep elsewhere, of course, but all that download stuff just adds up to wasted drive space. heh

Cats sleeping this way are always so adorkable <3

wut u meen, i am dum an porud!

In case you have any doubts who is behind the fascism in the US:

“A lot of these technologists hoped that the centrist path was a viable one, because it would permit them in theory to change the culture without having to expose themselves to the risk of becoming partisans,” he said. “By 2021, the smartest people in tech understood that these people were a dead end — so the group chats exploded and reformulated on more explicitly political lines.”

Stop wasting your time on wedge issues and start trying to help spread the word: The oligarchs are the true enemie of Democracy. They empower all the others. We must take away the power from the oligarchs or we will lose our democracy.

Probably, except I had realized that if I did lose a case, my house was on the line. So Randazza had the brilliant idea of giving him the domain as a show. I did keep the question version (and gb1990.com) but let them expire. I’d wanted to keep something going, but the momentum was gone since it has a resolution. heh

Probably not

whale fall

Oh no, not again

I can’t afford a Switch 2 for my wife, and I do not play console, so neither.

Maybe. Remember that the oligarchs control our media. Wonder why it sounds like Demorats never get anything done and Republicans strangely get a pass? And why so many people hate whatever the Democrat nominee for President is?

Coture in the Senate, required to vote on legislation, required ⅘ or 60 votes. Dems will have around 55.

It requires 60 votes for cloture in the Senate, allowing legislation to be voted on.

Alas, no. 60 needed in the Senate.

bc the dems have a majority (but not supermajority) in congress they can still pass bills through both houses and force trump to veto them.

The Democrats need 60 votes (⅘) for cloture - ending debate on a bill and allowing for a vote.

So they still do not have enough for that.

Cornell University breeding line

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh maybe no thanks

The US has 3 branches of government-congress, senate, and executive.

The US does have three branches of governkent:

• Legislative (Congress, made up of the House and the Senate)
• Judicial (Federal courts including SCOTUS)
• Executive (all the departments, with Trump as the chief executive)

Republicans still have a majority of SCOTUS (who are theoretically nonpartisan, but definitely conservative and liberal) and control the executive (in the person of Trump), but lost control of both houses of Congress.

I never did it - by the time I had an optical drive, I had hard drives - but I kinda wish I had such a system. So wild to have like 500 times the data on a CD (much less DVD) than the floppied you booted from! lol.

Imagine the chaos if you could write to multi-writable CDs, too. lol. THat would have been wild.

CD drivers did exist for DOS and you could absolutely boot up a system with one or two floppies, and one optical drive. MSCDEX.EXE was apparently what allowed you to connect to the optical drive.

Depends. My first system had two hard drives, which came before optical drives, so I had C: and D: and then E: was my optical drive.

My computer at home had a single floppy (and two 10MB hard drives C: and D:), but the one at the school used for MIDI was an actual IBM PC with two drives. We’d boot up on A: and save our projects on B:. :)