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[vsloathe]

Yeah but you use a mouse/trackpad pfft

back in my day we did it with a magnet, paperclip, and hard disk platter.

[perkiset]

LUXURY.

Gawd what we'd have given for a paperclip and a magnet.

We had to rub a mangy road kill squirrel's pelt against a balloon to create just enough static to zap pieces of metal shavings into a north/south east/west orientation to represent each bit. Fucking kids these days, have it all.

[isthisthingon]

The office will be almost entirely in the cloud in no time.  Hardly anyone in business ever wanted the responsibility of owning, learning and upgrading computer software and hardware just to be doctors, lawyers, textile importers, investors, retailers, personal trainers, aluminum siding salesmen, etc.

But for those who use computers to do what simple office software cannot, like everything the universe of programming entails, there's nothing sweeter than pure open source tools to build with