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Lavender is what we see swarms and swarms of bees come grab in the Pacific Northwest.

Windows 3.1? It was only 6 3.5” disks.

To be fair, I had stretches of 2K, XP, 7 and 10 working acceptably.

Nothing by Adam Warren? He took the Dirty Pair comics somewhere very cyberpunk in the last three volumes.

Reading my skin notes thirty plus years later is a very strange experience.

"We are no longer particularly in the business of writing software to perform specific tasks. We now teach the software how to learn, and in the primary bonding process it molds itself around the task to be performed. The feedback loop never really ends, so a tenth year polysentience can be a priceless jewel or a psychotic wreck, but it is the primary bonding process--the childhood, if you will--that has the most far-reaching repercussions."

- Bad'l Ron, Wakener, Morgan Polysoft

He indirectly called the Pope a simpleton, and the Pope took offense.

Paypal paid people to open an account or to refer new accounts early on. Inspired Dropbox to do the same thing with free storage.

I’ve tried custom launchers but never found anything as good as the Nvidia Shield interface before Google fucked it over with ads.

Yes, can’t remember the name, but there’s an old short story about alien explorers who find a dead Earth with futuristic buildings.

They revive a knight who attacks them and gets killed, a hippie who they kill off after questioning, and finally a future human with psychic powers who steals the revival device.

If you’re willing to pay for proprietary software, I’ve been incredibly happy with Roon for music organization. Handles 99% of albums I add without an issue, great multi-room support, best suggestions of any existing service (Rest in peace Google Play Music). They added remote streaming a few years ago and it’s all I use now.

Ages ago Metafilter was $5 for a lifetime registration. It was a great site and community for a long time.

Unfortunately the number input is lacking and inconsistent. We’ve always fallen back to JavaScript validation.

Other fallen status symbols that come to mind, although lower costs were the reason over better alternatives.

Aluminum before better material science dropped the price. Dishes, utensils, the cap on the Washington Monument.

Pineapples before Dole setup plantations.

Gelatin had two phases: before refrigeration, it needed hours of work in the kitchen. Then the status came from electrification and owning a refrigerator.