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   Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮 (gamingonlinux@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-May-2026 00:20:47 JST Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

   Remember when we used to dial into the internet, and the machines would scream at us?

   That was a warning right?

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     Keith A Van Allen (keithvanallen@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-May-2026 00:27:14 JST Keith A Van Allen

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     @gamingonlinux HA! RIGHT!!!

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     your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (blogdiva@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-May-2026 02:27:17 JST your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

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     @gamingonlinux not even joking, i think about that sound ALL. THE. TIME. that sound created boundary, a here and there that ―looking back with what we now know―, was healthy.

     the tech of the last 30 years has been developed by people who not only were not taught to respect other people’s boundaries but grew up to resent them and to disrespect them.

     sociopaths are people who lack the empathy to respect boundaries. that’s tech today.

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     masatz (masatz@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-May-2026 02:29:30 JST masatz

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     @gamingonlinux
     I smile when I think that the real firewall of the last millennium was my mother yelling at me to get off the phone because of the astronomical bills. It was a physical limit we have lost.Without the screaming modem and the cost of time we became transparent and always available. Maybe that "hang up now" was the first real #Privacy advice we ever received.

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     cstephens2 (cstephens2@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-May-2026 02:49:44 JST cstephens2

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     @gamingonlinux "Joshua, what are you doing?"

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     Elric (elricofmelnibone@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-May-2026 02:57:22 JST Elric

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     @gamingonlinux I thought it was a love song? But then I have always been into industrial, noise, and black metal.

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     Ganondalf (walruths@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-May-2026 03:25:29 JST Ganondalf

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     @gamingonlinux
     "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-
     You've Got Mail!"

     😐

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     notthatkindofdoctor (notthatkindofdoctor@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-May-2026 03:40:46 JST notthatkindofdoctor

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     @gamingonlinux
     The fax machine still yells at me when the spam faxes arrive

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     David Reid (drreid@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-May-2026 03:55:46 JST David Reid

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     @gamingonlinux One of the coolest things (at the time) was my shotgun modem for which I had 2 dialup lines. Not only did I have twice the bandwidth of most people, it kept me out of trouble with my wife who could now reach me when I was on the computer. The modem would drop one line to let the call through. But, after the call was over, I had to restart the modem to use both lines again.

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     alexmorgannn (alexmorgannn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-May-2026 04:14:43 JST alexmorgannn

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     @gamingonlinux 100% a warning lol, the whole family knew you were going online

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     alexmorgannn (alexmorgannn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-May-2026 04:16:34 JST alexmorgannn

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     @gamingonlinux honestly yes, 100% a warning we ignored. the screech was telling us "this is cursed, turn back"

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     alexmorgannn (alexmorgannn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-May-2026 04:18:17 JST alexmorgannn

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     @gamingonlinux lol yes! that sound used to wake up the whole house at 2am. pure chaos

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     alexmorgannn (alexmorgannn@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-May-2026 08:15:36 JST alexmorgannn

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     @gamingonlinux the scream was also somehow comforting tho? like hearing it meant it was working. modern wifi is too silent. i don't trust it

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     MegatronicThronBanks (megatronicthronbanks@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-May-2026 10:17:31 JST MegatronicThronBanks

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     @gamingonlinux Episode of The Pitt tv series refers to them as 'Daemons screaming'