Sadly it’s a lot cheaper than a support hotline…

This is some great nonstop nut November content, good times

And it was always temporary!

I’ve had less fall out than I had cases where the screw stuck in the socket and it started unscrewing out of the motherboard that I just gave up on them altogether

Well, of course they are, but so is just about everything

Great thumbnail!

Dunno (or care!) about the rest of it. Kinda strange content for the technology community…

Oh yeah, I remember these! They were often shaped to fit in around the strip of function keys (and some weird ones down the side?)

Wow, that’s amazing - thanks!

No, not at all - I think it’s hilarious! You’ve completely misread me

I was just curious as to why them (obviously we’ve got to pick on someone)

I’ll never turn down G&T, but more importantly, what did Belgium ever do to you? I’m just curious…

If you’ve got a spinning wheel of ‘who’s gonna get it today’ and Belgium came up, that’s fine, too

Well, I guess it is racist Wednesday for some of the planet currently, even if not my timezone …but why them?

…yyyeees, but I was also a lot cheaper and used a lot less fuel because the plastic was far lighter to carry around than glass.

How that balances out, no idea, sorry… I’m hoping it was better but may have been due to plastic subsidies or something equally evil

Riiight! We used to play donkey, for some reason.

Great explanation, too

Okay, what the hell is horse?

Everything about marketing I absolutely despise. It’s all lies sowing a hunger within that their product will satisfy a need.

A bullet is too good for them!

Far out, that’s poignant. 45m and relating hard

In fairness, I’m working quite hard and fantasising about being able to ‘check out’, so my scenario is more one of burnout rather than ‘not ignited’

What a champ

Thank you. That was helpful

…or we’ll eat you!

And anyone who knows what they’re doing would have built in decent safeguards - obviously hindsight is a luxury here, but there’s a reason there’s a whole lot of checking that goes on when others are downloading update content over a hostile network… Input validation is a thing, and all that.

They just weren’t very mature on that front, and now we all got to laugh at them but everyone else made similar mistakes along the way, just most of them started their journey decades ago (thinking windows update, etc), so we forget about the learning curve they suffered through building a resilient process

That’s fucking rad - I just hope they don’t get bombed by the IDF

/s - they’d never do that!?