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@zac Lennart Poettering, the same guy who made the Linux blight called systemd, that's what. The guy just doesn't know how to make decent programs.

I'd boost the whole thread if it wasn't bad etiquette.

No, help, I'm thinking about datacats now and nothing's alleviating it.

@Cr0wnless Some genuinely don't even know that much. They only know what the bitter voices on their radios tell them.

I wish someone made text editors & word processors that make you name & file the files you edit first, so that they would then be auto-saved without having to think about it.

The only ones that ever did (that I'm aware of) were geoWrite & geoWrite 128, bundled with GEOS versions for the Commodore 64, the Commodore 128, & the Apple II-series.

A unique feature of freeway-bypassed cities: There are horseapples in the office complex parking lot.

Please don't leave a Commodore 64 out in the middle of a field for who knows how many decades. But if you find one that was, please don't write it off as beyond hope, either. youtu.be/wVphFkaX1gg

A point & click graphical user interface is not automatically better than the command line interface. 

I counted & timed each at my fastest, most mistake-free.

A mistake on the CLI just needs me to use the backspace key until the wrong letters are deleted.

A mistake in the GUI means taking time to recognize that the wrong GUI choices are up, to understand why or what I mis-clicked on, to remember how to back up, & to decide whether to back up or cancel & start over.

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A point & click graphical user interface is not automatically better than the command line interface. 

I'm using a tool with both, but although I have to type up to 60 characters in the CLI, it takes only 5-10 seconds, & my fingers never have to leave the keyboard.

With the GUI to do the same thing, I needed to click on 34 things, each appearing in a different place I had to point at first, take my hands off the mouse to type 4 characters, then put my hand back on the mouse, taking 40-55 seconds.

When you're browsing on Firefox and you accident open in a new window instead of a new tab.

@maple I like :computerfairies: , especially since it's our favicon as well. :paw_fx90_thumbs_up:

But I kind of like :bunpats: , :maple2: , and :maplepat: as well. :3c

As far as I'm concerned, "Space: 1999" jumped the shark with the very first episode of season 2. Well, YouTube suggested a season 2 episode (s2e8, specifically), this image was the thumbnail, & my first thought was "evil Burger King on the Moon."

If only Star Wars was released 2 years earlier, the "Space: 1999" creators might've called the series "Death Star Trek" instead.

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"Look, he's headed for that small moon!"
"That's no moon, th- Wait, that's Earth's moon! He's headed for Moonbase Alpha!"
Space Wars: 1999

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