laivindil

In my area the wheel locks have come back a little. Not as ubiquitous as I remember in the 90s, but they are back here and there. The reflectors are quite common in Colorado though. See those constantly.

I met your mom down at the Shrimp Shack

The zoo?

I was starting in similar years, some time in high school (03-07) I set up a dual boot with Ubuntu. I’ve dabbled on and off since. Usually put Ubuntu on old laptops to give em some more life, current work laptop is that way. It’s never been my primary OS. But I’ve had either a dual boot or laptop running it most years since then.

Judging from my years in networking, not only most people, but many in IT see it as magic.

Ooh, that’s a good one (recording).

Or one catches fire and makes national news, vs all the other cars that caught fire in the same timeframe that go unreported because it’s not the new thing.

https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

An article covering similar issues to what you brought up.