64bit wasn’t widely adopted when they had to fix the previous datetime crisis. The permanent solution is to upgrade your system to use x64 signed dates. Many systems are already starting to account for this

As the article mentions, the biggest problem will be embedded systems that get forgotten about and never get updated… many many things will break at that time, unexpectedly, and in subtle ways. As a normal consumer, your up-to-date devices like mobile phone and laptop should^TM be unaffected.

Illegal question detected. Deploy the downvotes

They’re like Navi but completely disassociated

The icon really does look like a bird poop

The 4 great spirits of Puck:

Wall mounted is the only way to go

The only Lemmy-approved character you’re allowed to like is Puck. Sorry you had to find out this way.

A$3,500 is crazy

I remember my first data cable. I plugged two computers directly into each other, and it was like magic; didn’t even need a floppy disk to transfer data! Then the LAN games…

Nowadays most games on Steam will actually shit themselves if you try to connect to a local IP address. No, I don’t want to use the online cloud server; let me peer to peer or local host, please.

Over the moon just to land on the dark side

Seize the means of corruption

Guys we found the vampire

Data hoarding is born from data droughts

There was a huge computer herpes epidemic back then 😔

I had this basil plant that somehow was always in bloom. I’d brush my arms against it in the morning; free perfume. Smelled amazing too. You can also crush a leaf and use that.

I was too dumb for any contingencies so I would have porn image files all over the desktop and browser history. There were some traumatizing moments

I like how in their remediation suggestions they “gloss” over windows as an unavoidable bird genocide fact of life. Abolish windows! !fuckwindows@lemmy.world

People make this mistake everytime

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You can’t really “change someone’s mind” unless they’re receptive to it. Quite often you’ll just end up in a situation where both parties are already hard set into their position; then they both enthusiastically repeat their best arguments and logic, while completely ignoring what the other person is saying. The hope is that there’s a magic combination of words that will trigger the incantation that changes the opposition’s mind. There usually isn’t.

As a thought experiment, if you wouldn’t be willing to “change teams” no matter what the other person says, they probably feel the same way towards you.

I have a family member who is an avid Pauline Hanson / Trump supporter; despite my reminders that those people hate me for who I am at a fundamental level and would see me suppressed, deported, begging on the streets, or worse. I’m “one of the good ones” you see, an exemption to patch over the cognitive dissonance. I would never support them, because it would be literal suicide to do so. I’m sure they have similarly strong opinions about my favourite progressive political parties.

That said, I don’t have a good actual solution, and at least arguing about things raises visibility and could sway undecided third parties. But at a certain point it becomes too exhausting to continue arguing all the time.