@kenshirriff a friend of a friend worked for the company that Intel decided to not hire (again) to prove that their float math unit was correct. I can try to put you in touch if you are interested in the human side of things.

@georgetakei dear Michael. Stretch every day, and you too can keep sitting and moving comfortably until you are 100.

@georgetakei Cave Johnson says: "When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!"

@pseudonym tape players are back? No Bluetooth, even! Wired headphones only: https://liliputing.com/its-2024-and-fiio-is-making-a-portable-cassette-player-with-all-analog-features/

@mattly I refuse to vote without proper spelling.

@mattly there are bootable disk wipe distributions. If you are familiar with Linux, you can boot to a install, then drop into shell and erase it manually with dd.

@mattly remove the hard disk. Smash it with a hammer. Data destruction complete.