Banished is a pretty chill city builder game that could work well for what you want. The mechanics aren’t that complicated which I find makes it pretty easy to put down and be able pick right back up where I left off. It’s a Windows game but I’ve had no problems running it under Proton in Linux.

I can’t speak for Civ III, but my experience with Civ V is that running the Windows version under Proton actually performs better nowadays than the native build. But YMMV.

Windows 9x would crash after 49.7 days.

Windows Vista had a bug where the network stack would crash after 497 days, but if you didn’t care about networking the rest of the OS would continue to run.

I have to say that is pretty dumb. I will agree the scenario isn’t completely implausible, but if someone who doesn’t know what they are doing is allowed to do something like that, they’re going to screw up other stuff too.

Most people have their favorite old version of Winamp that they run.

I used Winamp for a very long time myself, but ended up giving it up when I gave up Windows. (yes, I know you can run it under Wine, but I also have Qmmp now)

It may not be completely crazy, depending on context. With something like a web app, if data is being sanitized in the client-side Javascript, someone malicious could absolutely comment that out (or otherwise bypass it).

With that said, many consultant-types are either pretty clueless, or seem to feel like they need to come up with something no matter how ridiculous to justify the large sums of money they charged.

If the goal of Desert Storm was to get Iraq to withdraw out of Kuwait, then it could be considered a success. There was no intent to make friends with the Iraqi people or remove Saddam from power. That was the second Bush’s mess.

Charlie Kirk? I think he’s some podcaster or something like that.

I don’t know the exact model of the cassette player, but the silver plastic and the rounded bits of the design to me are very late 90’s to early 2000’s.

My guess is this stuff has only been out there a few years from the general condition.

Newer ones can be a lot more efficient, but the high efficiency ones aren’t just drop-in replacements either because they require additional piping to the outdoors which can be a big issue depending on where in your house the furnace is located.

From what I’ve seen, VoLTE support is also pretty iffy too.

Luckily I’m still at the point where nothing I need to do absolutely requires a smartphone with either iOS or Google Android but it sure feels like that day is coming.

If anything it’s an “ute”.

If you ask me, the top left corner belongs to IBM i.

Even with turning that on, it seems that many newish motherboards will still sit and putz around for quite some time before finally handing things off to the OS. My guess is there’s little push for speedy boot times (I haven’t really seen this as something that shows up in reviews), so the hardware manufacturers don’t really bother with optimizing for it.

On the other hand, if the computer is powered on, there’s wear and tear on the moving parts (mostly just fans now), and components like capacitors have a limited lifespan. These tend to be the first components that fail anyway, and I’ve always thought it odd to further reduce the lifespan of these components with the hope to extend the lifespan of what’s already the most reliable parts of the computer.

Now, with modern computers that sip power at idle but can consume hundreds of watts under load, the difference in temperature at idle and load is much greater than room temperature (off) and idle, so even if I was worried about thermal cycling I’d still be inclined to turn the computer off when it’s not needed because when it’s off there will be no big temperature swings. Granted, with Linux when my PC isn’t being used it pretty much just sits at a constant and steady idle… but Windows on the other hand…

Combined with the added electricity cost of not running the computer when it’s not needed, not leaving the machine running all the time is the obvious choice.

It’s a KC-135. A plane designed in the 1950’s, and the plane in the incident was probably built in the early 1960’s. Way before any of Boeing’s current problems.

Jira Cloud isn’t just the on-prem version of Jira where you’re forced to use and pay for Atlassian’s hosting, it’s actually a different and much shittier version of the old on-prem Jira. Same goes for other Atlassian products such as Confluence.

It’s no surprise to me that Atlassian is in trouble, as there’s little reason I can see to use their products anymore, and they are just coasting on inertia at this point. Whereas 10 years ago, while it was still fun to knock their stuff, I had to admit they were actually pretty decent.

At one point not too long ago I realized that all I really knew about her was her mysterious disappearance in the Pacific, so I had to go read up on her. She was actually a pretty interesting person with an impressive number of accomplishments.

It was noticeably faster for external hard drives than USB 2.0 back in the day (though if anything I miss eSATA).

There’s still some Windows XP-era A/V equipment still in use at work that is Firewire.