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Not the OP but in my case it was a Sanyo with 2 floppies.

Here is some for the US: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklyhospi...

That was me.

Got fired. Kinda. I was laid off.

It's explained in this SNL sketch "Washington's dream": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYqfVE-fykk&t=1s

My thoughts exactly. What am I seeing that wasn't obviously not available in the 1950s?

How? I only know of subprocess.

Did you call them "drop light" or "trouble light" (Drop light for me)

We'll make cars so cheap only the rich can afford horses. We'll make air travel so cheap, only the rich can afford travel by ship. We'll make AR/VR so compelling only the rich can afford travel.

IIRC a Rolling Stone reviewer wrote circa 1975: I have seen the future of Rock and Roll; it's Bruce Springsteen.

"You're only as happy as your saddest child."

This makes me think of Adam Carolla's Rich Man-Poor Man. E.g. "Made love next to a fountain." "Doesn't drive himself to work." Many examples on Twitter and Reddit.

Old guy here. I can remember fighting with and complaining about horizontal scroll bars on wide html pages. I didn't realize how good I had it. Now I fight with browser based UI's that rearrange themselves to fit in whatever width the browser is set to. Sounds good. Oh, that nav-bar on the left side doesn't fit? No problem. Now it appears as a set of sub-tabs arranged horizontally. The app knows where things are, but I don't. No thanks.

Don't get me started on links that aren't underlined blue font and only reveal themselves on mouse-over.

Gotta double up to catch up.

why does navigating to this document, open a new tab, close the old tab. The result being there is no history that the "back" button (FireFox here) can get to. Seems like a lot of trouble to go to just to annoy me.

To make the TEAMs experience even worse, our IT department, okay at the behest of the legal team, put a policy in place that removes chat history older than 24 hours thus removing the last shred of utility from the product.

Things I like (What?):

Ctrl-Shift-V pastes into TEAMs with no formatting. Should be part of the OS. Contrary to WebEx (what we came from for meetings), joining a TEAMs meeting from both PC and phone joins you as one participant, not 2.

Declare victory and move on...

If it were the US they could just seize the cheap ticket and resell it for more per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London.

Reminds me of "All models are wrong, some are useful." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong

Agreed. I'm firmly in the boat of "expensive things own you" so I avoid owning them. I do try to take care of what I have but don't obsess over things that can and do happen.

That said. I did get rid of a perfectly good 2002 Camry to buy a Mustang Mach e about 14 months ago. It was pure indulgence and I'm still smitten. I try to take care of it, but don't park across 2 spaces an extra 200 meters away while at the grocery.

Who-hoo, let's all go to the summer long super-spreader event.

It took me a while to pick up on that. I first thought I was choosing where to go next. I then wasted a bunch of time on it. Fun.

Not mutually exclusive. How about a fusion powered yatch?

Am probably older than your Mom (an demographic/actuarial guess) and I am sorely tempted to get it. I have been team Nexus/Pixel for a decade but am miffed at the upsizing of the devices. adding 50% screen space doesn't make up for 5x diminished visual acuity. A random comment I saw somewhere about how bad CarPlay was compared to Android Auto gives me pause. I have become dependent on effortless linking of phone to car.

I devote significant time to avoiding taking on sysadmin tasks. Just got Frontier Fiber. Had always done my own network admin, but they throw in a couple of routers and I decided it was better to have something they supported than try to make sure I had coverage on every square inch (sorry from USA) of yard. We'll see if I am happy with that choice.

Obligatory "Happy Fun Ball" reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmqeZl8OI2M

I've had the Quest 2 for only about a month, but still don't own an FPS. I was impressed with the amount of non FPS games such as boxing, mini-golf, and table tennis.

Aside: The relatively low friction involved in starting game play has me playing this far more than I ever did with my rarely used X-box One. It remains to be seen whether this lasts beyond winter here in the northeast US.

Make them a (common carrier)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_carrier] just like was done for WAN access in the USA. Hahahahahaha.

To those that see this as government overreach, what would their response have been in the case of Mary Mallon? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mallon

I among them using a VM over Citrix as my "work machine". Other than being under powered (typical one size fits all) it is _wonderful_. Always logged in with everything up and available. Sign my company up.