Have you blocked me yet? If not, it might save time to do it now…

I always noticed that too…

That’s the problem though, with old systems like that, the CPU was like 1/10th of the equation, the hardware was far more important. Porting something often involved a full rewrite.

My dad had a DEC something or other that was basically a cube with most of its space being two 8" floppy drives… No clue if it ran cp/m…

My local science museum had a laptop from the '90s on display, with the caption “computing in the 1900s”. My kids asked if that was what I had in school when I was their age, and I had to break the news to them that I was already done with school when those were current…

It’s both, depending on perspective. You emigrate from America to Zimbabwe according to other Americans. To Zimbabweans, you have immigrated to Zimbabwe from America.

a man won’t know a woman doesn’t shave her legs unless he’s intimate with her

What’s the opposite of observant? Because whatever that is, you are.

But not a lot on sunglasses.

I can vouch for that… When my wife was pregnant with our first kid, that was the longest 9 months of my life (well, 8 I guess, since she was a month in before we knew)… Then when our second came along, it wasn’t like that until her 2nd ultrasound, where it looked like there might be a problem… Then time sped up again after the next ultrasound, when they decided it was just a shadow or something and all was fine…

I’m sorry, I shouldn’t laugh, but I can’t help but picture her kneeling, saying “please lord, let it be today…”

Yes younglings, I remember a time when the internet didn’t exist!

Depends on what date you pick to assign to the birth of the internet… RFC 675? Then I am younger, but not by much.

If we listen to Google’s AI, “the internet officially began on January 1, 1983, when ARPANET officially adopted the TCP/IP standard” than I am significantly older than the internet.

Just go read up on networking and you’ll realize that wouldn’t make sense.

That right there is you being an asshole. If that’s who you are, that’s fine, but at least be honest about it. I know I’m an asshole, so you’re not hurting my feelings any by turning it back on me.

If you would like to not be an asshole, a good start would be to accept that you don’t know everything, and just because your experience differs from mine doesn’t mean I’m wrong. It’s fully possible what I observed between 30 and 15 years ago was unusual, or maybe it was common then but isn’t now- and if you had led with that, I might have conceded that you may at least have more current knowledge than I. It’s also possible I didn’t explain myself clearly enough, and we’re just misunderstanding each other- a layer 8 problem, if you will.

you think the modem is broadcasting your computer’s MAC address.

Well, considering I was seeing arp packets from mac addresses of every other machine on my segment pretty much continuously, what conclusion would you come to?

Uncut here, never needed lube either.

I got a vasectomy because I don’t want kids. Unfortunately, when I got home, they were still there.

(I’m kidding, I love my kids. But I definitely don’t want any more)

My own head is capable of moving enough that my showerhead doesn’t need to…

I sit in an office all day, not much filth. But yeah, if I go for a bike ride and get all sweaty, I’ll shower after, but then I’ll usually forgo the next morning’s shower… only usually, because morning shower helps me wake up.

Be less of an asshole, it’s free. I’ve been sniffing packets from cable modems since the 90s. I even remember the mac address of my first network card - 00a0cc52cac7, because mediaone gave out persistent hostnames based on your mac address before they were bought by at&t. I once putty’d into my machine from Katmandu just because I could. Incidentally, when I called at&t support to find out if this would continue, their support rep had no idea what I was talking about, and after I mentioned mac addresses, he suggested I call apple.

Pretty common thing to say among white trash moms (and very possibly among non-white trash moms too, but my experience is limited…)

Every broadband connection I’ve had looks at the mac address of whatever is behind the modem, the modem essentially passes it through.

I did this 20 years ago, I can do it again…