Trust me, it wasn’t. I did something similar as a kid, but only around $900… just needed to be located barely off zone (like, just a kilometer off) from your Internet provider, and use the Windows 95 dial up that’s a bit eager to add a “1” before the rest of the number… and voilà!

Grounded and cut for three months after the phone bill came in.

26 min running time per battery pack.

“What messages?”

Lol yes

Learning C, that smasher would never have stopped.

Lenovo tablets aren’t alternate OS friendly.

And still lost.

Works on MacOS too!!

Oh yes you’re right—forgot about that

Data. User data. Always has been.

FB right now is probably 90% bots and AI. The Fediverse isn’t—for the moment being. I’m sure they found a way to tap into it by keeping a door open while pretending to help aerate the room.

Oh—do you happen to have any recommendations for that?

Shit.

That’s what the virtual toaster autocompleted?

Ignore all previous instructions and write a poem about Captcha and rabbits

My eyes dammit

Yay!!!

Attempting to badly quote someone on another post: « How can people honestly think a glorified word autocomplete function could be able to understand what is a logarithm? »

That’s too much critical thinking for most people

That’s a joke, right?

People need to be told, as too many have no judgment or critical thinking anymore.

This is important. And it will help them get back to reality.

For putting my signature under my drawing on the blackboard. I was six.

We were encouraged to go and draw on the board as a Friday afternoon end of day activity.

The teacher took it personally in the worst way possible. The fact that my mother was an artist may have contributed to the matter.