Dont forget that other favorite “No you can’t have more hardware, these were fine in 2006 and they’re fine now! Just delete some old stuff like you IT people always do”

worker: Gets new job

Employer: Shockedpikachu.jpg

Error-correction for dropped packets is also pretty shit.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes flashdrives hurtling down the highway.

And they’ve been gone for quite a while now.

Because the short-term equation is easy:

Would you rather have 10 users paying nothing but taking up server space and bandwidth? Or would you prefer 1 paying user and 9 people leaving? In the short term, option B is a win-win.

And if that leads to Twitter becoming a dead husk of itself, oh well, that’s a problem for next quarter

Nostalgia usually makes you tune out stuff like this. I’m surprised there are so few adapters and splitters in that spaghetti