@gordoooo_z @RL_Dane
Yeah, it can be frustrating, but for me I *need* something portable for… let's say, "psychological reasons." Is that sufficiently vague? ;)
Not hard to guess. There's a lot of freedom using a laptop.
When I got my first one in 1995, it felt AMAZING to be able to compute anywhere. It was a dinky little dell 486 (pretty old even at the time). It had a trackball on the screen bezel ( ) and a murky grayscale STN LCD.
Loved that little thing for two years until I got my epic Latitude XPi CD MMX 166.
What a chonktastic beast!
Well, not just that. Potentially due to being brought up with the implicit expectation that we'd be moving countries every few years, I feel extremely uncomfortable if at any point I can't pack the things I need in two suitcases and get on a plane to move.
So yeah… laptops are *much* more in line with that than a desktop.
Ah, I relate. I remember when I had... *sigh* a rather hasty and upsetting interstate move ten years ago*, I had to get rid of a lot of stuff I loved (including my sweet Classic Mac), and I was in the live-out-of-my-backpack mentality for a couple years after that.
*No, I didn't do anything illegal or immoral. I just wanted to get out of a situation, and needed a fresh break.
@RL_Dane @gordoooo_z
Yeah… I've had a couple unexpected inter-country moves, so… I don't know that the feeling'll ever go away. And I'm planning to move away from the US after uni, so that'll be another move (though not unexpected).
> *No, I didn't do anything illegal
Now I feel the inexplicable urge to write a story about you on the run from the law. Would that qualify as fanfiction, I wonder?
Lol, I guess. But make it good.
Lets say I EMP-bombed a FAAANG corporate office/datacenter or something.
Make that FAAAMG. I have no beef with Netflix, and I loathe Microsnot.
@RL_Dane @gordoooo_z
Wait who are AAA? Apple, Alphabet, Amazon? Who's G, then? I am now thoroughly confused.
GAFAM is what I usually see, I think.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Tech#FANG,_FAANG,_or_MAMAA
I think it's Facebook Apple Amazon Netflix, Google. I might have added an extra A for good measure ;)
@RL_Dane @gordoooo_z
Ahh, I see. Yeah, GAFAM is usually what I remember seeing. Apparently it refers to their *stocks* and it's now "GAMAM" because Meta. X(
How about we just replace the acronyms with "Harlot Babylon?" :P
GAFAM reminds me of "GORFRAM," which was an onomonopia for getting hit in the head with a frying pan in a comic book I read as a kid, which was actually a 70' textbook relating to Education.
Man, the older you get, the more weird memories you pick up. It was called "Captain Con Man" -- CONtingency MANagement. It was the only thing in my stepdad's office that looked remotely interesting, so I flipped through it several times while waiting for him there.
> Man, the older you get, the more weird memories you pick up.
I look forward to it!
Careful what you wish for, mon ami.
Even living the very best, noble, virtuous, and blessed life imaginable,
the years. they put miles on the heart. without fail.
But mayhap that's a good thing. Dunno.
@RL_Dane @gordoooo_z
Heh, from what I can tell, free association is largely how I think and conceptualize things, to a greater degree than other people I know. I already have weird associations with pretty much everything I think of, I just have a good filter so what comes out is coherent and people can't tell how chaotic it is inside. Taking it to another level sounds fun to me!
I guess what I'm saying is,
Time can be a burden. You don't really become you until around 13 years or so. Really 16. Before that, memories are very unreliable, because your self-definition is in flux.
A couple decades after that (36), you start to feel a little old.
A decade after that, your awareness of having many, many years stored up in the ol' hippocampus starts getting a bit heavier.
...
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Once you start rounding the bend to half a century, man, you try not to reminisce too much. At least, I don't. It feels weird to be able to think back 30 years and have perfect recall. It's a strange kind of burden.
But also, I'm blessed/cursed? with crazy good long-term memory. Name any year, and I'll tell you all about it, down to season-level accuracy.
@RL_Dane @gordoooo_z
> Name any year
*tries to decide between snark and a legitimate response and fails to make the right decision*
How 'bout 1756?
@RL_Dane @benjaminhollon @gordoooo_z the flip side is that sometimes you wake at 2am and your brain reminds you of something you said in 1992 and you spend the rest of the night cringeing
@simon @benjaminhollon @gordoooo_z
Oh man, yes. When I was in my early 30s, I'd start remember awkward situations from 7th grade, and it drove me nuts.
That's when I learned how to forcibly forget things.