Goodness, how am I supposed to store and stream more entertainment than I could watch in a lifetime now?

The short days in winter. Get up in the dark, watch the beautiful six hours of sunlight through a grimy office window, go home in the dark, damp, cold soggy rainy windy weather that passes for winter these days.

Computers are too powerful and too cheap. Bring back COBOL, painfully expensive CPU time, and some sort of basic knowledge of what’s actually going on.

Pain for everyone!

But the stories of Russians under my bed stealing my washing machine’s CPU are totally real.

Well, at least Germany has currywurst and alcohol at the dollar store.

Good, do Fark next.

Did you just make up “hate” from an imaginary argument you made up? I am simply baffled by the behavior and “needs” of people these days. In what universe is limiting “remote streaming” a problem? How many hours a day do you need to be entertained for?

It’s more like I’m surrounded by compulsive hoarders and chronic upgraders, for what? You can’t watch any more movies than you have conscious free hours in a day. I don’t get it anymore.

Computers used to solve problems, now they are the problem.

I thought you were going to say “by wearing a kilt”.

Or… we could learn to code software so the average mouse driver doesn’t require a gig of free RAM, 10 gigs of swap space, and 15 CPU cores?

Just a thought.

So how am I supposed to get pictures of absurdly obese gaily dancing IT nerds in kilts now!?

Sorry, I didn’t read your reply, I was streaming every movie, album, book, and magazine in existence to every location in the universe at all times. Even when I blink I have 16K screens inside my eyelids.

This is normal behavior in 2025. If you cut off my terabit stream, I will writhe on the ground and scream.

I am not in any way addicted to digital hoarding or continuously upgrading systems that have already exceeded the capacity of any normal person to watch a movie since 20 years.

Said the needle to the arm. You’re all addicts.

So how’s the fusion reactor coming along? The calendar popped a notification for Dec 1 and I had totally forgotten about it. I am now laughing again!

Seems pretty simple to parse, what is causing you an issue? What is not clear?

Imagine being so addicted to having every nanosecond of your waking life filled with noise and colors that this announcement means anything.

Drahma and Greg was a fun show

LOL. ITER is not and has never been meant to be a fusion power plant. That would be DEMO.

Don’t hold your breath.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEMOnstration_Power_Plant

Fusion power will never, ever happen. Ever.

How about fusion power and room temperature superconductors…