i lost my faith in our governance while deployed in iraq. nothing i’ve seen since has done anything to restore it. dunno how, but something has to change

wait it doesn’t have OLED? so it’s worse?!

fuck overwatch 2. can’t believe i bought so many copies of overwatch. never again blizzard, you stupid fucks

yeah i work in tech (at a bank rn) and the mainframes are hilarious. a constant source of downtime, and insanely overpriced hardware to boot.

literally i can’t think of any downtime our services have had in the last six months that wasn’t caused by the mainframe’s downtime. this is dozens of cases.

but they will basically never be replaced. maybe in 100 years? ha

so have i. this is the technology community, after all. for a couple years i worked for a major cruise line and each ship had an AS400 on board. so I’m familiar with mainframes, and sure they are un-removable for a number of reasons. but that statement was stupid

what ads?

ok this article was a hilarious shit show. full of gems like

The former Treasury official told us that mainframes—and COBOL, the ancient programming language they often run—are really good for what they do,

ffs

sounds like trump to me

outside of china tho

sounds like not-china to me

wait they are going to move manufacturing out of china? isn’t that what the tariffs were supposed to do? shit

just a couple of regular old politicians

my younger kids have a hard time with the rails for sure. magnets could be magical if they get it right.

i didn’t see anything about hall effect sticks. so probably not ig

one inch bigger screen 7->8, and an inch wider overall. magnetic joycons.

there’s so many! but which ones!?!

this is Lemmy. There’s like dozens of us in this thread that hate watching streamers! you are not alone.

I hate watching people play video games too, but definitely for strategy or inspiration it can be helpful

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wow, how long did it take them? what visionaries! my kids have been playing the switch version of wii sports like crazy lately