Bobby Moss @trechnex@eldritch.cafe

It strikes me that the world changed very quickly in a very short amount of time, and access to the Internet and online shopping is now both assumed and considered almost as important as having access to power and water.

It's also pretty wild to me how much Linus Tech Tips struggled in the "Scrapyard Wars" episodes they did without access to the Internet or GPS: https://youtu.be/9C2DHfIXKIo

To paint a picture of life in 2007: I had just left high school, and for the first time my parents could afford broadband internet (the speed was 2Mbps)

Up to this point we'd always shared one family desktop PC, and only my mother was allowed to use dial-up internet. If I wanted to access the Internet myself, I had to use the school computer lab.

Most people were using feature phones. 3G was not widely available. Public WiFi coverage was patchy at best & often cost money for time-limited use.

Seen on birdsite: "How did people used to live with laptops that only had four hours' battery life?"

My first "new" laptop in 2007 managed less than half that on a good day, and it was considered pretty standard at the time 😂

It cannot be overstated just how more power-efficient hardware has become in the past decade, and the huge role that ultrabooks played in making that happen.

What I wouldn’t give for a day without any discourse in the UK about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.

I have no feelings either way about them, and last I heard they’d both buggered off to America to get away from the monarchy because of stress or something.

Apparently they’re a thing people are getting mad about again, and I am just so tired. 🤦‍♂️

I think it's a bit early to make judgements, but I hope for the sake of the Americans I'm following that they haven't just replaced a cruel government with an ineffective one.

It is an improvement I suppose, but from what you're all tooting about it, the status quo does not sound particularly great.

This was actually quite a good budget from the Tories! Keir Starmer seemed a bit nervous & shaky in his response.

The experts will dissect it more, but I think a lot of these tax giveaways, extensions of emergency relief, 95% mortgage guarantees & the creation of free ports are going to prove popular.

Labour were right though that there wasn’t anything new on the NHS, social care or public sector workers’ pay.

Sadly this story is only a temporary relief. Vulture capitalists and techbros are circling hobbyist food blogs like sharks with dollar signs in their eyes now. 🤦‍♂️

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/mar/01/food-website-that-fixed-blogger-recipes-removed-after-backlash

Well done to all the “why do food bloggers have to tell us their life story before they give us the recipe?” people that are too lazy to scroll down a web page, you’ll soon have the sanitised corporate sludge you were hoping for. 👍