board room filled with parasites

“Ssssss, the humanssss are coming for our jobssssss!”

“Caribbean pirates are BACK on the menu, boys!”

Oil rig drillers?

cups side of face in my hand

Say it ain’t so!

Calling the stage units prototypes is being nice. The reality was that at that point the iPhone had barely gotten to a proof of concept stage. Months before this event, the developers were still using a giant desktop tower to simulate the phone’s hardware.

That the photos of the phone were real and not concept art, that the stage units weren’t just unusable rubber dummies was a magic trick itself.

When the developers revealed years later that the iPhone presentation (just the presentation, not even the actual launch) was a make or break moment for the company, they absolutely were not kidding.

And then they went from “should not even be working” test units to fully functional production units in six months!

Whatever your opinion of Jobs or Apple, credit where credit is due.

One of the best lines from Armageddon:

“Sir, the override. It’s been overridden.”

“If this is your first night at Mozilla.social… you have to fight.”

You do not want the lizard prince to touch your nuts.

The World War I gang?

And the oversized Reese’s coffee mug he rode in on.

That’s not what Grandfathered means. Basically, original subscribers are being forced onto a new contract.

Depressed tardi-pepper.

Yeah, I understand the change. Whatever the issue was with my app, it’s gone now.

I guess my update got gummed up with old stuff stuck in the cache or something. Even though I force-quit Voyager while troubleshooting the setting wouldn’t take at first.

(Sorry I can’t post images to show you what I was looking at, I picked the worst instance for uploading media.)

I was really confused at first because I didn’t know comment sorting had that many options. “Top 6 Hours” is only available for comments for me. Is it suppose to be available for posts as well?

So, I changed BOTH post and comment sorting to New then both back to Hot, NOW the feeds are sorting by Hot on their own.

Just to be clear, was there only comment sorting in the setting a before? It feels like the update took whatever the setting for comments and applied it to posts instead of using the existing state.

First thing I said in my post was that I set the app (in settings) to Hot.

When it started behaving this way, I changed it to New then returned it to Hot just in case the setting didn’t stick somehow. Despite now saying the default sort is Hot, it is only sorted by Hot if I manually change the feed to Hot each and every time I return to it.

Every time I open a feed or community, regardless of what I set it to in the past, it always reverts to Active.

“You underestimate my monkey bars!”

Just like how if you put a shattered CD in an apparatus, you can still use a laser reader to recover any data on the undamaged sections.

Though, because data is recorded in a circular pattern at high speeds, you won’t get much. Or what you get will have lots of corruption. I wonder what pattern of storage these plates use? If it’s similar to SSDs, then large files can be nested in a very small area of space - increasing the chances of recovery.

Well, not really.

So AIM was built on an existing chat protocol called OSCAR. The same protocol used in other services. So people eventually figured out how to make chat clients that could log into many different IM services on one app.

This was not sanctioned by AOL, but they allowed it at first. Then they decided you HAVE to use the official AIM client to talk to people on AIM. The third-party developers ignored AOL, so they entered into a tug-a-war match for a while.

Because AOL was using known software to make AIM work, there was only so much they could do to keep their client working while also blocking everyone else. Eventually it became too much of a hassle, so AOL relented and third-party clients kept working until the service was shutdown.

“Take big sack of potato. My gift to you.”

They even made a series of movies about it.