Define recent? This one is almost a decade old.

Brother printers won’t even let you print in black after you’re out of yellow for three weeks.

Then as smart phones took off, all the companies quadrupled down on the walled garden idea

Yahoo and MSN had interop before smartphones existed. AIM and Google Talk (Jabber) as well.

When smart phones took off, Facebook Messenger actually had Jabber support (which also gave it interop with AIM and Google Talk).

The consolidation and walled gardens unfortunately came back later.

Nickelback

in “Russia”

They did pretty well with Inside Out as well. Bing Bong wasn’t even in any of the promotional materials at all.

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They do. By default the system partition is straight up mounted read-only.

Is that… ICQ? Why?

A plate

They banned flavored pods. That’s why disposables took off. Those are banned now too, but enforcement is basically non-existent at the federal level.

Hot Tub Time Machine

Both are indeed things.

Michael Sullivan (of “delete the wife” fame) says it in Lower Decks 4x01. And a Betazoid gift box says it again in 4x03 (after similarly living an entire fabricated lifetime in a moment).

I miss my wife!

Works for me. Make sure you scribble on the M while you’re over it.

besides memory leaks

Have you tried auto memory reclaim yet?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-subsystem-for-linux-september-2023-update/#:~:text=Automatic memory reclaim&text=When this is set to,you’re not using it!

Do you want to talk about it?

The customary reply is “Thanks! I’ll add it to my list”

That’s a funny way to say “Have you opened a ticket?”