The last bit of this song always takes with me whenever I hear that phrase…

Freedom fries and burns and scars Liberator goes too far Freedom fries and screams and yells The promised land is a promised hell — Robert Plant from the album Mighty Rearranger

Never even got to a production release. ☹️

Samsung’s DEX had a downloadable Linux VM running nearly a decade ago.

Code enforcement in cities and towns, especially more are more to blame for this than any other factor. Where I’m from the more affluent suburbs, barring in any kind of real individual expression or even signage.

Galaxy Xcover series.

Probably Douglas Adam’s:

The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as "Your Plastic Pal Who’s Fun to Be With.” The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing devision of the Sirius Cybernetic Corporation as "a bunch of mindless jerks who’ll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes…”

Reported an issue with the name. I know I’m shouting into the void on this but a small poke in the eye makes me feel better.

To be fair, most/all kernels are written on a hardware abstraction layer, although lot of that kernel was built off of VMS… 😂

Didn’t NT 3.x or 4.x run on a RISC CPU back in the day?

The NJ ripped (deep fried) ones are missing. Also the Carolina is misplaced. The slaw dog originated in WV.

New Balance has 4E and I struck gold with XLFeet.com too.

Has to be…

I just wish they would keep some of their more offbeat flavors (Sweet Corn and Black Raspberry… 🤤) It was a little tastier when they were still sourcing milk from Snowville Creamery in Pomeroy, Ohio. I think that Jeni’s outgrew the production capacity or something similar… 🤷🏼‍♂️

Great post, thanks!

Thanks! There a few that I hadn’t heard about!

I read about it yesterday morning and my school district sent out an email The same evening. I believe had it not been published they would have stayed quiet.

It doesn’t make them money. Most of Microsoft is focused on business, enterprise, add AI. Everything edge is just part lip service.

I’m pretty sure IBM sold the branding to them since they were already doing the manufacturing. They still do the warranty/maintenance work, though based on the last two call outs I’ve had with their “techs” I might opt for depot repairs or taking it to the local Micro Center for warranty work.

I’ve been reading Spoonbenders by Daryl Gregory. I’m normally into more escapist sci-fi/fantasy but the premise was too good to pass up on.

I have them and they work well enough for my uses (gaming and video watching) I’m dual booting and honestly found the windows software trying to give you the 7.1/virtual surround so irritating I just uninstalled it.