Star Trek TNG literally started with space jellyfish, too

The lady on the right might be a Sith!

Just what we need, libertarian ogres …

Linux Mint is easier to use than Windows

I’m looking forwards to getting stuck into the story mode this weekend, though I have to wonder if I’ll be able to finish it given how long it’s been since I’ve played anything that needs reflexes, lol

Mostly I got the game to play with my partner, and on that front it’s been excelent so far :-)

Kai trucks are made to fit within a size limit for vehicles in inner cities in Japan, as a result there’s a whole load of odd tiny vehicles still available today.

The closest we get in Europe now are the “heavy quadricycles”, but again they’re made for a specific legal niche (or for specific jobs, like the Aixam Mega Truck for things like park maintenance).

Either way, small vehicles are unfortunately unsafe because there’s no crumple zones, so outside of slow-burning town centers they’re a bad idea (and in town centers it’s better to not have cars at all) so we’re unlikely to see more cute tiny vans in the future … except for things like the electric truck you saw, which can cover commercial needs in zero emissions areas, but again specialised use.

They used to be (see: Bedford Rascal) but then people started thinking they’d like to keep their legs in the event of an accident

Ah, it’s the phones, I thought it was 12 year olds and was a commentary on the GOP or something

Yeah, I use a VME setup at work for data capture and it’s serviceable and reliable (reliable enough to still be working off a coax network cable, lol).

The one I had at home had a 60K-based motherboard with some custom roms and a load of serial ports … I never managed to get it to do anything useful, unfortunately

Yeah, BeOS looked, for about 5 minutes, like it might be the future!

And then it wasn’t :-(

lol, I never had anything like that at home (though I did end up with a 68K based VME system at one point). That AIX server was outgoing tech for SMEs even then, and I never worked for anywhere big enough to have anything Unix-y on it after that :-/

Still, it used to be cool how much oddly mixed hardware there used to be, whereas now there’s a slick VM solution for any size of business.

Oh fantastic! I was one of those young whipper-snappers with the technology of the future for OS installations - floppy disks. I can’t remember what sort of tape was being used during my “learning the value of backups the hard way” experience above, but they were chonky and took about 8 hours to parse each full one so I could pop home and eat between feeding them into the machine.

It all worked like a charm though, no lost data or anything :-)

I want to say my exposure was 5.something? On a PPC server used for a production management database. I liked SMIT from what I can remember (the documentation was good), but everything went well silky smooth once I managed to track down bash for it and basically automated half my job with basic scripts, lol

Also fun fact, I once took the server offline by tripping over a SCSI 3 cable to the raid array (while sorting out the bird’s nest of a comms room) and it took me 3 days to restore everything from backup.

That was my first steady IT job.

Yeah, the first time I saw CDE was doing AIX for PPC admin and I thought it was nice so went and got the student edition of Solaris for something like €7.50, lol

IIRC at the time CDE for Linux was available for about €50, which was a lot of money back then!

Unfortunately I had approximately zero apps for Solaris, so apart from playing with the OS I got no actual use out of it.

Nobody in here talking about BeOS, QDos, Geos (like windows for the C64!), AIX, or OS2 Warp? For shame!

QNX fucking rocked, I wish it had been useable as a day-to-day system. If I had to pick one it would be that sighs wistfully

Do you mean Workbench, or AmigaOS?

I do like the aesthetics of Workbench 3.9, the pixel art for the icons is very cute :-)

Yeah, that’s what I’m using too, mostly because I don’t want to spend time fiddling with computers these days

I still have a copy of Solaris for x86 somewhere, I liked it because it had a nice window manager before Linux and I hold onto the disk out of nostalgia

Nobody ever comes to the comments for The 51st State, despite it’s brilliance

Some intimate time with a consenting partner of your preferred gender, or cheesecake.