…i, too, had to text-message my coworker…
…i, too, had to text-message my coworker…
…it’s already a thing and readily available in southeast asia…
…republic dominican, cuba, carribbean, greenland, el salvador, too!..
…alright boys, he’s made his point, let’s pack it in and call a doll a doll…
…i parsed that as ‘once a month’ and pondered your ensuing lifestyle…
…NeXTstep was built on mach and, although i’m unsure if any antecedents remain in macOS, it was certainly production-ready in its day; i remember a couple of decades ago there were stopgap versions of the HURD built on top of mach instead of their own microkernel but i thought that was only ever intended as a temporary workaround…
…i presume on that basis that sustained developer interest was its greatest hurdle, no pun intended…
edit: …is this the post-mortem you mentioned?..
…so it used to be pretty common in small towns (pre-walmart mainstreet USA) for hardware stores to include a toy department, usually downstairs in the basement, much like how drugstores typically did double-duty as lunch counters…
…the small town where i went to college, though, enjoyed a stereo/mattress/ski shop, and i never wrapped my head around that combination…one of the local grocery stores (pre-hypermarket) also had a full computer department; the most well-appointed amiga retailer i’d ever seen, replete with rendering hardware and video equipment…
…i’m absolutely ignorant of its current state, but every time i’ve checked in on progress of GNU/hurd over the past three decades, it still hasn’t matured into a stable production-ready platform: i’m not sure if that’s an artifact of technical viability or developer interest…
…depends upon the jurisdition: in my state, HOAs can foreclose for unpaid assessments but not for fines…
*free to exploit capital
…HOAs hire management companies; management companies issue citations, collect fines, file liens, and foreclose your property…
…it’s a year-round standard flavor in central texas, has been for years…
…cleanest (and cheapest) solution is a passive HDMI-to-DVI cable: the video signals are identical, so it’s a trivial conversion…
…i’ve used this connection (from several different cable manufacturers) on many rigs…
…transmetals were so f*cking cool…
…macintoshes have featured native multihead support since at least 1987…
…i read this in the tone of an exasperated husband responding to his wife waiting impatiently to drag him along to some saturday-afternoon garden tea party…