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Happy Monday friends! Did you have a wonderful weekend? We had a long one & enjoyed what we all love about summer, those long days & late nights & all the special slow moments made in between. Sharing this shot of our field of daisies as the sun went down. Ahhhh, summer, you are so serene! 🌾✨

Photocredit from Lindsea ↟House Of Harvest↟ by @instagram/regram

shilohsylvanian

Meet the new Tiger dad, Miles! Japan July 11, 2026 release. likely a year later globally. We have a new motorcycle rider in town! So happy to see the little cowboy tiger get a dad.

haemosexuality

POLL FOR PEOPLE WHOS FIRST LANGUAGE *ISNT* ENGLISH: lets say you have an app or show or whatever and its in a language you dont speak, so you must choose a translation. english and your first language both are options. you pick

the english translation

your first language

some other language you speak

Voting ended onJun 7

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keatxu

abandonware should be public domain. force companies to actively support and provide products if they don't wanna lose the rights to them

omikronsoul

Game companies hate emulation, but none of them seem to understand that a lot of us would just buy ROMs from them directly if we could. I don't want a fifth remake of Final Fantasy IV, I want to pay five bucks for the 3MB file you already made bank with thirty years ago. Nobody who wants to play something for the purpose of retro gaming is going to consider a $40 remake as the alternative option, and we're certainly not going to let the original dissappear. They're crying about opportunity cost for a product they're not even selling.

justletmeremember

op i know you're probably talking about like, video games, etc, but this is also critical for research science - my lab has so much abandonware, either because the company's out of business, or the company decided to not maintain it, and it's a fucking nightmare. we have two windows 95 computers that are CRITICAL for performing experiments/data analysis because the software needed is abandonware. one of the main roles for a guy in my lab is to maintain these little dinosaurs because if they go out, we lose access to ~20 years of raw data for research. part of why is that these companies also make their own file types, and make it difficult-to-impossible to convert those file types without their specific software. by habit, i convert all research files to more generic versions (txt, pdf, tif, etc) so that i minimize risk of losing my shit, but some stuff can't be converted.

for example, we have a microscope that is perfectly functional, good microscope, but its software is abandonware because the company refused to maintain it. the company is still in business, still makes essentially the exact same software, but they made all of the old tech incompatible with new software to force people to buy the new microscope tech. it would cost a quarter million dollars to replace this microscope. this perfectly good microscope.

so like, i know a lot of people look at the original post here and go "well op just wants old video games to play" (which is valid! games companies should not be able to push shit to abandonware and then close it off) but also this is critical for like. biomedical research. if y'all had any idea how much basic infrastructure built on science relies on shit that is technically abandonware, you would probably be horrified.

ageae

fervent-bookwomb

i think that soy sauce fish and honey bear must be the very very best of friends

fervent-bookwomb

look at them. look at them!!! i bet they have tea parties together when the spice cabinet is closed.

emtearzz

buddies!!

roostercrowned

DON’T become even a casual nerd about historical fashion because you’ll start looking at pseudo-medieval fantasy and going “that jacket and those breeches are 200 years apart and reflect extremely different social movements” and “oh no they were NOT making shirts like that prior to industrialization” and “a fly front? in MY ~1500s???”

quendergeer

it's so easy to slip into! you notice ONE machine-stitched elf-robe and you can't stop

faustique

there's a special place in my heart for people who made an effort to be my friend regardless of how quiet or distant i can get at times

leselfov

We Were Kings by chaitdeshphotography

satakentia

thepeacefulgarden

loser-void

I will never like the humanities hatred and I will never like it and I'm a STEM person working in IT and I hope no one is falling for this propaganda.

Even if I work a very technical role what I'm learning in my political science degree is useful in my work. And what I can't really apply, I still can use to, you know, be a better citizen.

loser-void

"but you won't be able to find a job afterwards!" The government isn't financing university to create employees, that's employers' job. Universities are there for another purpose, which is pursuing knowledge.

Idk, maybe I'm the dumb one here by making these considerations. I just think that everyone should be granted the right to pursue knowledge regardless of a potential job outcome.