I don’t know what you mean by “Nothing” but, I have often failed to have any luck with the automatic partitioning, and I end up doing the partitioning manually. Especially since I almost always separate / and /home onto different physical drives. And doing that, you have to lay out a /boot/efi partition. Without doing that it’ll go through the motions but you won’t get a bootable system.

Gotta have a really tacky tiled background JPG.

I’m picturing Bob Barker hosting The Price Is Right with that weirdly long microphone of his in his hand with a cable draped across the set.

I legitimately don’t know how to administer a Windows system anymore.

He states his storage capacity as “800 quadrillion bits” which works out to ~100 petabytes?

It’s one thing to appreciate good audio, it’s another to be so snobbish about it to the point of academic dishonesty.

Christians of Lemmy: You think your god would have bothered creating the universe if he knew it would inevitably lead to the existence of audiophiles?

Allow me to re-state, with emphasis:

Compared to

A LOT

of headphones available in the 1970’s, they sound amazing.

Yeah, there’s been good audio gear for decades, but there was also utter garboleum.

Compared to a lot of headphones available in the 1970’s they sound amazing.

Okay I just looked it up, I’m going to amend my post after making this comment: The game is stated to be “fifty megs” in size. To which Carol Marcus replies “Christ on a crutch! It’s the program that swallowed Saturn!”

I’m not taking it out on the author here, Reagan hadn’t signed Moore’s Bill into law yet by 1982. The Atari 2600 had less than a kilobyte of RAM, just enough for the stack. The Commodore VIC-20 as shilled by Captain Kirk had 5k of RAM, about 8k of ROM, a diskette (formatted for the VIC-20) held 170k and a cassette tape could hold up to 300k. Also, IIRC, by 1982 Moore’s Bill hadn’t been signed into law by President Reagan yet. The exponential growth in computer capacity and power hadn’t begun. Why would the author see it coming?

Though, the author did avoid saying “megabytes” so it could be 50 “megaquads” which could be any amount of data, though that decision hadn’t been made yet.

I got to thinking about like, Amazon. To an American in 1970, the equivalent would have been Sears, the retailer that sells literally everything though an enormous catalog. They had department stores you could visit in person and they’d publish a phone book thick catalog for mail order. And there was a time that Sears could have bought Amazon outright for chump change. I remember a Tim Allen stand-up routine where he talks about mail ordering a tool from Sears, and it arrives 6 to 8 weeks later. Shipping is now usually a matter of 1-4 days.

But no, the real answer is probably wireless headphones. Like if you were showing around a tech enthusiast from 1975 around my house, the thing that would probably break his brain the most is a pair of wireless earbuds.

on-demand video bent my grandfather’s brain. He could not wrap his head around it. “What do you want to watch?” “What’s on?” “Everything. You want to watch a particular episode of Dallas? A NASCAR race from 1984? The moon landings? all 47 seasons of MASH? We’ve got a magic VCR. We can always watch anything we want. So what do you want to watch?” “Well what’s on?”

Watching him die of dementia is a major driver of my goal to die young.

6-7 years of software support on a device whose screen wouldn’t last 3 months.

Computers are things you can personally own, most of the people on the planet own at least one, probably including one that fits in a pants pocket.

Steve Wozniak once proudly told his mother that some day, he’ll have a computer of his very own. Richard Stallman, in his now famous usenet post announcing the beginning of GNU, says that “one manufacturer has already promised us a machine.” So, Richard Stallman was working “In the Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT”, and even in that position there was a question as to where he was going to get a computer for his project. In 1983.

Saturn’s moon Titan has liquid lakes on its surface. Those lakes are full of methane, not water.

Saturn’s moon Enceladus and Jupiter’s moon Europa are both covered in ice, but it is strongly believed that both worlds have subsurface oceans of liquid water. Europa may contain more water than Earth.

Star Trek mostly avoided that problem. They made up a fictional unit of data storage called a “quad” to avoid the problem of “the Borg source code is too big for our databanks, it’s 3.2 gigabytes in size.”

The author of the novelization of Wrath of Kahn didn’t see it coming; one of the scientists on Regula 1 in the book, not the movie, complains that his personal computer didn’t have enough room for a 4 megabyte “50 meg” game.

Did everyone have it before the pandemic? I remember Zoom popping fully formed out of nowhere.

Arch has good documentation. Read it and you’ll be ok.

I have had so much more trouble with Windows than Linux.

10 minutes of nothing important being destroyed.