I just got a new PC and with that the era of XP finally comes to a close.

Damn, that's impressive. I joked that I was building my current PC to last 10 years. That was 8 years ago, and I just might make it.

It's sad. XP was good. The youngsters don't know about the dark days of Windows 3 and 95. They probably think "Blue Screen of Death" was a grunge band.

I didn't know that much about Musk until recently, so I had a more or less neutral opinion. Now he's definitely a guy deserving of some mocking.

https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1018566897481101312

I built a high-end poker PC in 2008 or so that still works fine. But I use a Mac laptop exclusively now - so I can watch TV while I post constantly on this site.

Help me.

I use a $300 phone exclusuvely

Too small and can't type fast enough.

Yeah phones are tilting to use to browse forums/post/read articles, though I still do it when I'm out. I feel way more comfortable when I'm home on my desktop.

I helped my ex pick out a laptop for when she went back to school. Had to have one that was a touch screen and the keyboard flips kinda turning it into a giant Ipad.

Despite all that, while she was doing homework she would still take breaks from her laptop to browse facebook on her phone. First time she did it I nearly fell out of my chair laughing.

There was also a time when we first started dating and I was playing poker and she asked if she could go to my house and use my computer to file taxes or something. 30 minutes later I got a text asking how to turn it on haha. Guess at home her dad had a desktop where the power button was on the front, while the power button to mine was on the top.

She was like 24 when both of those things happened.

From a Jimmy Kimmel segment where they went on the streets and asked people to point to a map and name a country, any country:

Shout out to the "could Trump identify Greenland" discussion.

Normally the smaller the country the more awareness that person has of the goings-on of other places. I had uni students in China who couldn't name the capitals of Japan and South Korea.

Another possibility is that most Americans only gives a **** about America. Other countries with large nationalist streaks seem to think like that as well.

Not sure anything tops this in the American metaphor stakes

Lmao

My sister thought Alaska was an Island.......

First time I came to the US I thought Rhode Island was an island. I feel like that is an understandable mistake.

how does this only have 7m views? it seems like one of those catchy pop songs that gets 200m views.

i still have a windows XP that use with my 4 30" monitors, from 2008 as well. what a year, first of 3 SNE's before black friday.

should probably look into putting linux on it instead.

4 30" is pretty impressive. How many tables did you play at once?

Bought Swiffer packs at the store yesterday, didn’t search for them online and only spoke with my wife about it out loud. Getting Swiffer ads everywhere online today. ****ing iPhone must be secretly recording our conversations—no other way the internet could know.

BIG SWIFFER is watching

Did you pay cash?

The internet is real good at advertising the thing you just bought to you - ad nauseam. Oh you just bought a $600 locking trunk for the back of your FJ? Here let me try to sell you another one. Skynet is upon us.

That or Apple is hooked into your bank accounts (if you didn't pay cash.) Creepy and amusing that this is the new reality.

No, but not sure how Google ads or whatever would have obtained the purchase amount, much less the detailed receipt.

But the bank just gets a total from the store—I bought other things too.