Will probably disappear again 
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At least you got life outside Internet.
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Good you remember me.
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Fun fact: we will reach 1,7 billion seconds in Unix epoch at 14 November 2023 on 22:13:20 UTC 
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I know this seems horrifying, but I finally got around to cleaning my laptop out with compressed air (been 2 years since I bought it and I haven’t cleaned it between then and now).
Works much better now 
What seemed like a little bit of dust made a big difference
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The Russians need to do something about that. >300,000 Russians they’ve managed to kill with their pointless war instead of killing the one Russian (ir)responsible for it. When are they going to find the courage to arrest the madman?
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Times that I wish I had freedom of speech/expression online or in my country (I agree with you though, it is only that I won’t talk about it as it could be unsafe to me)
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bye, meet ya’ll in may
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You are the biggest Motalun in the world then 
Chup noobrelun 
Oh dear, Windows 7.
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I’m wondering why PHP devs decided to replace mysql with mysqli instead of improving the mysql series itself? I get the i means improved but you get the idea (also one more byte to type per function)
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Hi Ziverre,
I was told that because programmers at the time had a high sense of “if it works don’t change it” legacy mindset, so major meaningful updates had to forcefully break it, like intentionally break it to make them make the change.
PHP was notorious for having poor mysql connection management back decades ago and many web applications are easily hacked due to this flaw of having mixed connections or procedural calls all the time that’s why mysqli was introduced (and intentionally breaks the old syntax) to force devs to update to the latest standards to the time.
Nowadays it’s much more reasonable to use PDO or Laravel Eloquent for both OOP and security, so looking back PHP did progress a lot.
Cheers!
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I see, that is definitelly a smart move. Though some will be there who think that it is the end of world when PHP upgrade breaks their outdated websites. 
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It didn’t take me that long when I had a dozen websites to update from mysql to mysqli back in the day. I actually considered that update being late when I first figured I’ll be connecting to multiple databases at once, but thankfully we had include() and query based functions like:
function getArticles(){
$mysql = new mysql();
.... the query here
return $result; // as array
}
and whenever we need the articles, we simply call
include_once(__DIR__.'/database.php');
$articles = getArticles();
something similar, so there’s only one file per site to update.
Cheers!
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There is one part that has served in the last 5 of my PCs
and that is this beeper 
Today I broke that tradition because I have a laptop speaker that just collects dust, so I decided to put that instead of the beeper
and also for the reason that I got tired of the metallic sound (1 beep) when I turn on the computer, so now it is much softer and richer
CPU/GPU if I need gold 
Digging through the drawers, I also found this beast, which I kept as a memory on one of my PCs
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