never understand GIT as a single developer.

I use it to make it easier to work on stuff from my desktop, laptop, from windows or from Linux…

Yeah once they’re out of the womb, fuck 'em. We only care about the unborn.

8.1 was ok. Fight me.

How do we know you’re not an AI bot?

Hell if I remember so long ago, redhat was in the mix, then mandrake… I ran Gentoo for years on a server, until I got bitten by some upgrade woes, then switched to Debian, then arch, now truenas. Meanwhile on my desktop I bounced around even more… Ubuntu until the stupid wannabe metro UI, then switched to mint, which I used exclusively (as in without dual-booting windows) for a while… Meanwhile my laptop dual boots Manjaro alongside windows 11…

Mine was slackware in I think 1997?

Hey look, I’m good at something.

Yes, but that’s why x86 assembly programmers do it…

Yes, but it’s not universal that xoring a register with itself is more performant than simply loading it with 0.

an x86 assembly programmer

Ftfy. not all CPUs have an xor register with itself instruction.

parse

That sounds like technical jargon…

Cartoonist has met my wife…

It makes sense in porn, when the point is to show every detail up close, hair obscures the details. It’s just that so many people then decide porn is what they want to model themselves after, or what they expect of partners…

Whenever I’m packing the car for a trip, I hum the Tetris theme…

I was a child (14-15) in 1990, but I’m definitely gen x…

better for PDFs

Sumatra!

runs in a web browser.

Or its an electron app.

Something something something history repeating

All cars are computers on the road at this point, not just EVs…

But then big companies wouldn’t be able to keep milking the consumer via planned obsolescence. Won’t somebody think of the shareholders?

You don’t sound anything like Dr. Zoidberg.