It’s not a simple story of just taking away the phone.
I discovered she’d circumvented the screen limits and had been using social media into the wee hours of the morning.
And later, after she did take the phone away, she found her daughter had kept all old phone that was supposedly sold.
It does seem to be a pretty extreme case, but there was lots going on here.
I thought that it became MANGA when it changed from FAANG?
But you’re not allowed to proceed in life until you’ve pressed any key!
Maybe so. But it did process duplicity backups every week for hundreds of Gb, so it did a fair amount of work even though not constantly active.
FWIW, I ran a Pi 2 with external (self-powered) USB drive for about 8 years as my main backup without issue (except that it was slow). I’ve just replaced it with a Pi 5 and TerraPi frame holding an SSD.
I remember an obscure one named “grommit” that was a dancing animated character and you’d click it to change arm and leg movements.
Bonzi buddy was over of the bad ones, maybe?
Drain.exe would say “water in drive a:, commencing spin cycle” then power up the drive and make a gurgling sound.
Sheep.exe … would create a sheep that would wander the desktop.
When I read it, it stirred a distant memory of hearing such a story before, so I knew that there was something behind it and looked it up.
You could just about play speech using one bit output using pulse-width-modulation. But it was almost unrecognizable. And would take a lot of memory for the time.
It was usual to have different numbers of beeps for POST errors.
But this was an age when a PC would say “Keyboard error. Press any key to continue”, so things were not thought out that well.
That probably wasn’t a virus.
Or like when Meet went away, but Talk in Gmail was renamed Meet and Duo also became corporate Meet.
Or something like that. Maybe Allo was involved.
Given how the “shop and walk out” process worked, they’ll probably outsource it to people paid to throw packages on parachutes over your fence while they make a buzzing noise.
They stuck him in a glass case in a museum.
Will it summarize EULAs?
And click “I agree” for us?
I find it really frustrating to not have a touchscreen on a laptop (e.g. scrolling and zooming Google maps).
I don’t understand what I’m getting for the price difference compared to a similar windows laptop.
I don’t like how the Ctrl/Fn/Alt/Cmd keys are used, but that’s just because I’m used to Windows. (Remapping then doesn’t help because commands are divided differently been those modifiers).
I do like that it has a native bash shell instead of having WSL with its separate filesystem. But I doubt that that is a common reason people choose macs.
Is it not possible to switch back? I refused the Gemini offer when it appeared.
I was tempted to try it if it appeared again, but I need assistant to perform basic functions more than I need it to have a conversation.
Not everyone knew C.
Lack of trust: what was it doing behind the scenes? What’s if it just went and … allocated memory all by itself!!
Optimization wasn’t so good back then. People believed that they could write better assembly. For speed and size.
Memory was tight. C would include big libraries even if only one function was needed. If “hello world” was several k in size, that added to the suspicion (even though that was a fixed overhead in practice).
This page (and podcast) mentions cars part-way through, saying 80% of outgassing happens in the first three months.
There are references at the end.
https://pbfcomics.com/comics/bear-boy/