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@xs4me2@mastodon.social It's either epic trolling, or a teenager. Hard to be sure. Bear in mind that a 15-year-old today was born in 2010, ten years old in 2020. The CD-R probably came out when her pa
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@cstross@wandering.shop With all the knowledge in the world just a keyboard click away, how can you not know? That is my basic question… basically its the main thing I use the internet for… I remember
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@xs4me2@mastodon.social I don't know because I don't know what was in the two crates of disks he took away, he lives 300km from here and is a non-techie, there's no direct train route there (I can't d
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“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”― Groucho Marx
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“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”― Groucho Marx
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Nov 22, 2025
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Still have a lot of records and cd’s here but use mostly digital media nowadays, the end of an era I guess…
I was commenting on the knowledge available on the internet, that means not knowing about anything, technology, history or whatever topic is a matter of not being able to think critically basically. Caused by education or maybe personal choice…
I will never understand that. As someone involved in R&D I live by asking why, how ad in what context every single day.
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