I’ve got a full-height 5 1/4" 1GB hard drive around here. Thing is massive.

I’ve also got most of the storage devices I’ve ever used over the decades:

• 5 1/4" floppy
• 3 1/2" floppy
• 4mm DAT tape
• 8mm DAT tape
• 1/4" QIC tape
• Zip disk
• Cassette tape
• Punched tape

I’m missing the following:

• DLT tape
• 8" floppy
• IBM 2315 disk pack

Never used 9-track tapes, punch cards, or removable disk multipacks.

I’m just here to say my god, that article was horribly written!

If this is what humans are cranking out, maybe I should reconsider my opinion of LLMs.

Kind of misleading to say that shaw.ca has been “shut down,” because it still is resolvable but now redirects to rogers.com.

Interesting that Rogers is redirecting everything to “.com” rather than “.ca”, which they also own.

I worked at Shaw for 11 years. It started out fantastic, and slowly slowly went downhill. It was only after I got out that I saw how shitty of an experience it had become. Then along came Rogers, and my friends still at Shaw universally said it had gotten immeasurably worse. Toxic work environments, incompetent micromanagement driving everything, a sense of fear and dread carefully cultivated by the executive.

Rogers could be the worst company in Canada to work for, if they weren’t competing with BCE.

Canadian telecom sucks.

FUUUUUUUUCK!!!

Stop bending! Stop caving! Stop acquiescing to the fucking deranged dictator baboon running the shit show down south!

I ask my friends. Well, friend.

Honestly, the recommendations from Spotify are often terrible, but occasionally give me something I like. I believe that free Spotify still has recommendations, does it not?

The other thing is radio. Yes, radio! Find a station you like and stream it, since they’re all streaming now as well as broadcasting.

Our local station is awesome.

Danielle Smith and her government are:

• Anti-vaxx
• Anti-science
• Transphobic
• Separatist
• Corrupt
• Evil

Portal I and II.

Psychonauts I and II, with the caveat that there used to be a HUGE skill spike in the penultimate chapter of #1. I gather they’ve softened it, but don’t know how much.

It’s just a typo.

She meant to call it the “Alberta Nazi” panel.

Agreed.

Eh, I figure being a dull man isn’t about being a man - or even about being dull. It’s about taking satisfaction in the potentially dull things you do in your day.

Motorcycles are awesome and fun and absolutely NOT dull. Changing oil on a vehicle absolutely belongs here.

It’s a Triumph Tiger 900 GT. Was on my way home through a steep technical alley in our neighbourhood when I ran into about six inches of mud. Went down in slow motion, bending the shifter and breaking the hand guard.

It’s pretty trivial stuff to repair, but dammit that sucks to see my baby with an injury.

On my old bike, the first maintenance I did was an oil change. The second was removing the gas tank and fixing a leak. Then came the coolant flush, and…

Yeah. Maintenance is surprisingly fun. Well, satisfying at least.

Good on ya!

Picked up my first brand-new bike this spring, and just had the first oil change done. Sadly, there’s already some damage to the bike. 🤕

Few new parts, and we’ll be good as new.

Eg, “go go gadget shark-repelant spray gun!”

That’s a serious violation of content crossover!

It’s supposed to be the shark-repellent Bat spray.

Why are we not talking about thingamabobs here?

“Premier Smith says…” lies.

No article that starts with those three words can be called news.

Good riddance. Now Vancouver can deal with a violent, out of control, immature predator.

Nothing shocking about this.

…named Jason Kenney.

It’s almost as if he has no clue whatsoever about the history or politics of the Middle East.