Wow, that's wild. I guess there's still a market for dialup, even in the age of mobile and satellite.

Or you're a teenager making fat stacks with multiple ad bars. And by fat stacks, I mean fractions of a cent.

There was an ISP that also gave a discount (or was it free?) if you had the ad bar running. NetZero was it?

Haha, it's even worse in academics because anything from students is protected. Unless they host on campus, it's a violation even if MS super duper promises not to leak information. It's also why we can't use ChatGPT, though fools still do.

Edit: I mean for grading, asking a clanker is still fine but a terrible idea.

Unfortunately yes, although it's hopefully not commonplace for my ad bloated W11 start menu to take 10 seconds to open.

I'm not even sure if they remember the changed names. Granted, I'm in CA so we never even think about the gulf, let alone it coming up in conversation with a person I despise.

I prefer restoration points, stored locally, since most of my work is less than an hour and doesn't need checkpoints. Sometimes something goes terribly wrong and I want to start over. But if it crashes? Yeah, restore me!

And half the time it's in a fucking browser.

Hey quick rant, I'm a professor and due to budget cuts they cut our MS Office so it's online only. I was already getting into non-slop software but now I need to check for compatibility using the browser version, since podiums only have Office and we're supposed to use that.

So what I'm trying to say is, I'm feeling this right now. Shit doesn't even have master slides or mathematical formula editing, ffs.

I'm more going to remember "in the dark, all cats are grey" lol

By the very nature of Linux it can't happen from a simple plug and play.

I got a free LG monitor from an office closure near me. Didn't notice this because I'm a Linux person. Let someone use a Windows laptop with it via HDMI and it did that. Lol

I'll keep that in mind. Quite a few of the games need a battery change but I think you're right about LttP. I emulate though so it's not as essential as it used to be, it'll be more relevant when I want to share the old ways with my kids when they're a little older.

It's probably too late for me, but I don't think I care about saves older than 10 years. I can't even remember what I was doing in a game a week later, let alone a decade.

Does it permanently bork any new saves, though? I know my SNES Z:LttP had permanent save issues but I think that's a different story.