@tomas That was one of the things I said, yes.
// @matigo @streakmachine
@matigo 1999 is the year I went to Tennessee to help a friend out with a software project and discovered my now ex-wife bankrupted me.
// @streakmachine
@matigo Sad but true: Taking inflation into account, I spent more for my 12MHz 286 than I did for my MacBook Air, Mac Mini and Windows development box combined.
// @streakmachine
@literary I had that happen many years ago. We suspected Sidekick's ex-husband as she and I had just started dating.
// @kdfrawg
@33mhz Yeah. It was definitely a non-productive Saturday. It's as if every device I owned was conspiring to keep me that way
@streakmachine On it's predecessor, the PET, you could PEEK and POKE your way into a motherboard repair.
Toggling the built in cassette motor relay off and on too fast and too many times would burn it out.
One of the few systems I know of, (Aside from mode switching your analog monitor and blowing the flyback transformer up), where you could damage hardware via software.
@streakmachine Or if it got flaky and you still had a prompt…
SYS 64738
Amazing that I remember that after all of these years :D
Notification systems are wonderful things. Would that software developers not abuse them so.
Yes, I am full of complaints today.
Windows 10: Overly aggressive telemetry nonsense running in the background that needs killed after utilizing 100 percent of a disk's activity and slowing actual working tasks to a crawl. In Microsoft's sick version of humor, they refer to this process as something that improves "Customer Experience".
MacOS: Similarly aggressive nonsense running in the background doing the exact same thing. Battled a quad core i7 brought to its knees this weekend and my decidedly wimpier Air gets the stuffing knocked out of it. The former went through a series of black screen/no cursor reboots after the latest round of updates. Had to pull every trick in the book to get it functional again.
Enterprise Linux: Decided that I was going to use 1024x768 and like it. I actually had to write a damned modeline to make it stop. Writing a modeline. In 2017. Ridiculous. Mind you - Nothing changed. No updates run. Nothing. It just has it's "whims".
Ubuntu: I didn't bother turning that machine on. It's a Core Duo Acer tower. Even if everything ran flawlessly, I had things to do in Android Studio and Android Studio on a Core Duo is ulcer inducing.
I really miss DOS.
DOS never gave me this shit. It just worked until it didn't. Power cycle machine. Clean slate. Off to the races again.
@matigo I'm considering something along those lines. I'd move to another platform entirely if the others weren't equally awful.