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@burgerdrome COMPUTER IN THE 1970's: What time and date is it

@burgerdrome Bro explained it simply...

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In the 80s I believe the vi editor at least kept a swap file that could usually preserve your recent edits if you didn't save before it powered down, but it's possible that came later.

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@burgerdrome computer in the 2020’s. You blinked. Let me completely refresh this browser window with a whole new set of ads and suggestions - you clearly were not about to click on that post anyway.

Oh you did click on the story - here have some pop ups and a video and a gif and let’s refresh the page with new ads while you are scrolling. You are on your phone? Let’s refresh with a blank page so you can’t actually read the end of the article. Clearly you want to click on this ad (not shown)

@burgerdrome No forced AI if you switch to Linux... I'd start with Ubuntu and with experience move to Debian, the distro Ubuntu is based on. Debian is the most stable experience. You can match packages from less stable / fresher sources. Good to do an install / first try on a virtual machine, like free virtualbox. I personally gravitate toward command line tools because they don't change their interface so it's setting things up how I like only once. Same reason to separate "/" and "/home".

@burgerdrome @sentient_water 2025 I’ll make up a good story and you might even think it is based on evidence, which I have made up as well.

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Yep, pretty much. 😒

@burgerdrome COMPUTER IN THE 2030's: Please enter your prompt so we can use an AI to create a horribly disturbed, uncanny valley, fun-house mirror version of your work, complete with ransom note lettering and laudanum-infused hallucinations. Any of your corrections or objections will be used to train the AI to further infuriate you.

@burgerdrome [raises hand sheepishly] “I’d like to amend the 2020s description a little…”
Computer in the 2020s: Your WiFi is down…so you can just ‘eff off until it comes back online m’kay? Because if I can’t get online you don’t have a computer. Local drive? Listen neckbeard you downloaded the security updates and they undid those tweaks you looked up and popped your files and emails right back into the cloud. Because corporate needs to know what cat food you buy…”

@burgerdrome yeeeeep…

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Ah, that'll be the new Windows (19)84

@burgerdrome I wish this was a joke

@burgerdrome Computer in the 2030’s: the NSA has finally realized its dream and provides cloud backup for everyone’s computer and AI. (That is, if it isn’t already.)

@burgerdrome Computer ad in the 2030s: Introducing Microsoft’s new Aurb! Powered with AI, it provides you with the most relevant responses to your questions, we’ve done away with that pesky keyboard and mouse schtick; Aurb responds entirely to swiping actions. Better pull some-a those rods out of the nukeano, because the energy demand is insane! Get ready for the purchase that is fully integrated with the Microsoft ecosystem or whatever the fuck we’re calling it now.

Pictured: Aurb

@burgerdrome just wait for #windows #recall then all your wishes will come true.

@burgerdrome@aus.social top 10 reasons I use linux:

@burgerdrome you needed to save work and exit or quit in the 80s if you wanted it to remember.

@burgerdrome also,
Computers in the 1980s: I will execute the exact same sequence of instructions each time you boot into a program. It either works or it doesn't.
Computer in the 2020s: who knows what will happen!

@burgerdrome plus: here's the weather forecast. You need it to decide, if you want to put a coat on, while working in front of me, right?

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Linuxoids:

@burgerdrome Computers in 2024 are more like:

Sure, here's a summary of what you did recently:
You got up at 8:32 am, went to the bathroom looking at porn for 7 minutes, then you left for 25 griffith street to buy a car magazine and two cans of red bull at the gas station using your second credit card. While waiting you looked at the follwing instagram pages (...) until you were interrupted by your friend XY who uses an iphone 10 and whom you meet there every other week on mondays. Then, ...

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Indeed, we need to rethink this…

@burgerdrome this is so perfectly composed in every single way except

> Let me know which one you want and I'll do my best to figure it out.

which is still so poignant... and yet,

it is definitely less and less volunteered.

@burgerdrome oh boy. That is one spot on description of what went wrong. Brilliant. Thank you.

@burgerdrome posting online

1980: awaiting input

2000: please be nice.

2024: our systems have detected suspicious activity, you have been permanently banned from participating in human society, authorities have been alerted and all your credit cards cancelled.

@burgerdrome I like how there are so many replies to this that just repeat a worse version of the same joke back at the OP

Plus a singular perfect "just install Linux" reply guy as the cherry on top of the shit cake

@burgerdrome the choice between “yes - maybe later” is the most infuriating thing ever.

@burgerdrome Just don’t clear your cache. Or you’ll never get mastodon.world back.

@burgerdrome Gallows humour!

@burgerdrome I run Linux. And I turn off both my laptop and my phone every night.

@burgerdrome Modern computers are truly amazing! They store your data in 500 different locations and even send a copy to the FBI just in case. Sometimes it feels like they know more about us than we do ourselves, and all this comes with a ton of ads!

@burgerdrome "we also used generative AI to mix in some things you *might* have been doing, also here are some totally inaccurate suggestions about what you could do next"

@burgerdrome yes

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I'm feeling the 80s computer right now. How nice to just forget ...

@burgerdrome Me: enjoying Linux and not having to deal with a computer that knows everything about me.

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LINUX COMPUTER: RTFM, maybe computering is not for you

(I exaggerate a bit... maybe this should be "LINUX COMPUTER in 2005".)

@burgerdrome ... also, we used ai to generate an almost, but not quite! especially in details that matter!!!, copy, which we present you *first* because we need that kind of validation to be able to sleep at night ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@burgerdrome Just FYI, semi-trailers don't have their own power so they don't idle. Only the tractor idles. But still 😂!

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@burgerdrome COMPUTER IN THE 1950s/1960s: Core memory is persistent, so I can just continue where we left before the power went down.

(If I understand that correctly, wasn't alive then.)

@burgerdrome COMPUTER IN THE 2000's: Yep here you go champ! Btw.. Please insert coin!

@burgerdrome "Ads about things I also misunderstood, so I see you wrote about (insert political stance) so my recommendation is about (the opposite political stance)"

@burgerdrome "I stored 10,000 identical copies of what you were doing in 500 different global datacentres and will now use predictive text to tell you what your data might have looked like"

@burgerdrome Did you forget the part where it costs $20 per month to have this privilege and the only way to cancel is by personally handing a letter to the CEO's office which is in Alaska?

@burgerdrome ill be in love with it later... Maybe?

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Big Brother Watches You
I Love Big Brother

@burgerdrome "I'll be in love with this later" 🤣🤣🤣🤣!

Oh the reply thread on this has been glorious. Whew. My face hurts from laughing.