Yeah once they’re out of the womb, fuck 'em. We only care about the unborn.

How do we know you’re not an AI bot?

Sorry, I’ve been eating better for my health.

Hell if I remember so long ago, redhat was in the mix, then mandrake… I ran Gentoo for years on a server, until I got bitten by some upgrade woes, then switched to Debian, then arch, now truenas. Meanwhile on my desktop I bounced around even more… Ubuntu until the stupid wannabe metro UI, then switched to mint, which I used exclusively (as in without dual-booting windows) for a while… Meanwhile my laptop dual boots Manjaro alongside windows 11…

Mine was slackware in I think 1997?

Hey look, I’m good at something.

Yes, but that’s why x86 assembly programmers do it…

Yes, but it’s not universal that xoring a register with itself is more performant than simply loading it with 0.

an x86 assembly programmer

Ftfy. not all CPUs have an xor register with itself instruction.

That was typical of cars made (for US market) in the early to mid 80s… Can’t remember for sure if it was part of the whole national 55mph speed limit, but I’d bet it was.

better for PDFs

Sumatra!

All cars are computers on the road at this point, not just EVs…

But then big companies wouldn’t be able to keep milking the consumer via planned obsolescence. Won’t somebody think of the shareholders?

You don’t sound anything like Dr. Zoidberg.

Who cares if you withhold judgement while someone else doesn’t? Do you feel morally superior?

Yeah, but at least he didn’t have autism!

Osama … no one wept for him being denied a fair trial.

I did… Not so much for him personally, but for the number of high ranking CIA and other officials that might have been exposed along the way…