Instagram has existed for 14 years and 11 months. I think you might be pushing it on the not 15 years.

But more importantly though, Windows XP was supported for 18 years…

So it’s not like it can’t be done.

Fair enough, though modern cameras are much smaller:

The line between smartphone and dumbphone has always been very blurry.

I’ve seen a few devices go by recently trying to capture that use case. Some have looked promising but I still have a Zune.

There is nothing about those that can’t run on KaiOS, which comes with Google maps and runs on most dumb phones on the market today.

I highly recommend just getting a real camera. The pictures I took with my camera 11 years ago are still better quality than an iPhone can manage today. Modern cameras are far far better.

Sony still makes an Android equivalent.

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I really hate when people are like “just stop” like everyone has impeccable self control and executive function.

Office would have a learning curve too if you hadn’t been using it since you were a child.

The Voyager spacecrafts had some of their wires wrapped in, cleaned, store bought aluminum foil after a last minute change in the expected environment around Jupiter.

Only cheap machines were still beige by the early 2000s. Dell, for instance, switched to their dark gray clamshell around 2001.

I mean… most people I know with learner’s permits don’t have their own cars. It’s probably their parents’ car and somebody just forgot to take the sign off while the learners aren’t driving or it’s permanently adhered.

My first thought was ‘I would grind off the hinges before I would fuck with moving the engine’.

Depending on how hot it gets right there they may be able to use the self clinging velcro tape. (The kind with the hooks on one side and the loops on the other that people use for wrapping cables)

I am glad it hasn’t been hard for you. Pretty much everybody I know has moved to other states because of how bad the jobs are here. I would if I could afford it.

I wish I still had your optimism and naivety. Last time this happened to me I was let go for “not fitting in with the culture” (the aforementioned culture of working all day), which is a completely legal reason in my state. I was denied unemployment despite being able to prove that I had been told to work all night. 10 years earlier I was let go for the same reason after refusing to participate in prayer during a meeting.

There is no protection for employees in the manner you are speaking of, at least not here.

I think maybe you don’t understand the difference between exempt and non-exempt employees here in the US. The law absolutely backs employers up on this unfortunately. Especially if, like me, you live in an at-will state.

let’s ignore XP as a more glossy consumer version of 2000

That feels like a dangerous argument;

• 2000 = NT 5.0
• XP = NT 5.1
• XP x64 = NT 5.2
• Vista = NT 6.0
• 7 = NT 6.1
• 8 = NT 6.2
• 8.1 = NT 6.3
• 10 = NT 6.4 (Later NT 10.0 then 1507 for July 2015 when they made the switch to ‘agile’.)

Unless you are prepared to argue that everything since has just been an updated version of Vista.

I was literally told once “yes we can have meetings all day because you have all night to finish your code.” The same was expected when they had ‘team building’ outings.

The books, Jurassic Park and its sequel The Lost World, are very good and very different from the movies. I also recommend Disclosure by the same author.