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1. Angry Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 22:31:16 JST Angry Sun
   before there was cram everything into activitypub there was cram everything into email
   • pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 22:31:13 JST pistolero

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     • PunishedD
     • givenup
     @givenup @PunishedD @sun I did tech support at a rural dial-up ISP as a teenager for close enough to minimum wage. I got really good at enunciating clearly over the phone because I cared if I was doing a good job and whether customers thought I was helpful, and my boss cared about having reasonable technical support because the customers at the ISP had all been into the office to sign up and cut their first check, and a lot of them had bought their computer there, and if we couldn't do it over the phone, they'd bring their machine into the office.
     
     This is very different from ISPs' incentives now and very different from how tech support works.
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   • pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 22:31:14 JST pistolero

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     • PunishedD
     • givenup
     @givenup @PunishedD @sun
     
     > back in my day if you got a phone call while on hte internet your game of online command and conquer wqas done.
     
     Imagine not putting *70 into your ATDT string to disable call waiting.
   • givenup (givenup@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 22:31:14 JST givenup

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     • PunishedD
     • pistolero
     @p @PunishedD @sun i wouldn't know
   • PunishedD (punishedd@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 22:31:15 JST PunishedD

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     • pistolero
     @p @sun
     >cracks open a Monster
     back in my day, we installed software, not apps. Then we hung up the modem and everything still worked fine!
   • givenup (givenup@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 22:31:15 JST givenup

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     • PunishedD
     • pistolero
     @PunishedD @p @sun back in my day if you got a phone call while on hte internet your game of online command and conquer wqas done.
   • pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 22:31:16 JST pistolero

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     @sun Maybe it's hard to notice the water as a fish, but we are currently still living in "cram everything onto the web".
     
     > there was cram everything into email
     
     There still is. Google has "enhanced the experience" again by letting you buy things directly from your inbox: https://developers.google.com/gmail/markup/overview .
   • pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 22:35:11 JST pistolero

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     • JoshuaSlocum
     @JoshuaSlocum @sun It is pretty easy to not use Google for anything; I recommend more people do that.
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   • JoshuaSlocum (joshuaslocum@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 22:35:12 JST JoshuaSlocum

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     • pistolero
     @p @sun this poast turned me into uncle ted
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