For all the Mouse's deep flaws, the mass transit system at Walt Disney World is sterling proof of just how good our cities could be if we stopped worrying about keeping the nice services away from the brown people.

The parks are super walkable, and getting anywhere across the southern part of the property (Epcot/Animal Kingdom/Hollywood Studios) Just Works™ in a way that most municipalities could easily replicate if they didn't have to fight property owners for every cent of taxes.

#Poll #RetroComputing

You are a 16 year old in 1993, which of the following would you get if money was no object?

• Sound card / Sound Blaster (36%, 36 votes)
• Co Processor (5%, 5 votes)
• Modem 14.4 Kbps (37%, 37 votes)
• CDROM Drive (21%, 21 votes)

But really, who are we to judge?

For our lives as well are often spent in pursuit of the virtual instead of the real

Happy International E- waste day.

...Also happy Microsoft end-of-life for Windows 10 day.

It's estimated that 400-600 million computers still run Windows 10, and many of those don't meet the higher specs required for Win 11, which in addition to more RAM and a faster CPU includes having UEFI bios.

For those with some level of tech literacy upgrading to Linux is an obvious workaround, but the sad truth is that enormous volumes of ewaste will be generated by this unnecessary act of corporate greed.

#windows #ewaste #microsoft #linux