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If you can't remember that the "silly" project has a "silly rule" in place, and you won't remember any time you look at "git log" results, then I really don't know what to tell you.

That's really it-- it's a waste of resources, but it's such a tiny amount that all these effects are almost free. There's no point in not having a little fluff that makes the experience a bit more fun.

No problems here with Firefox on Windows 11.

You normally would, but this is just predation on through traffic. It's not like you're going through the middle of main street, these may be off to the side of town with several exits but close enough for the city to dictate speed limits.

RemoteAccess used that as the default Sysop page tune. It could be replaced, though.

As someone who ran a BBS for an extended period of time, DESQview (and obviously QEMM) was an essential part of daily life.

It allowed for a lot of things that you'd take for granted today-- like logging into an additional local-only node in the background to reply to messages, or doing file management while you had users online.

Hell, even load up some less-intensive games in the foreground and carefully set up DV's preemptive levels to minimize the slowdown to the BBS.

We started with QuickBBS but migrated to RemoteAccess later when QBBS went through a major stall and never recovered. As far as I understand, QuickBBS suffered from a major problem with leadership/ownership-- I don't remember specifics but I do remember that there was maybe one or two releases after that got cleared up but QBBS had already died off by that point. Since RemoteAccess was nearly 1:1 compatible and still getting upgraded, the decision was pretty obvious.

xfinitywifi, the comparable similar functionality from CenturyLink, etc, or if you happen to live just a bit too close to a McDonalds or other business that has open WiFi. And of course the possibility of one of your neighbors screwing up his WiFi setup.

There are a lot of ways this can (and has) gone horribly wrong for privacy.

The former is definitely true. There are towns out there in the United States that are on an interstate and play games with their speed limits. You'll see a speed limit of 60-70 up until you hit city limits then it suddenly drops to 30-40, with enforcement lined up at the city limits waiting to nab people.

They're making good money off of these fines.

Keepass2Android supports Dropbox, Onedrive, and a few other ways of direct sync. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=keepass2androi...

For Windows 10/11 users who use a MS account, put a portable copy of Keepass on OneDrive and it'll be there right after a fresh reinstall plus sign-in, and you can access it from the Android app using OneDrive sync built into K2A.

Expect to have someone reach out to you soonish, though, so we can be absolutely sure of what happened and correct any mistakes on our part that may exist.

As far as I know, anything that they couldn't find an author on was eventually rewritten from scratch. That's the only time a name would be removed from a driver-- a complete redo.

MAMEdev hit this problem a few years back as well. Thankfully, the end result of code that needed to be ripped out and rewritten ended up being pretty small comparative to the whole project. A lot of that came down to there being no corporate interests involved, so no corp VS author arguments-- the worst ones to deal with were contributors who were adamant about keeping the original non-commercial license on their contributions.

This. PC speaker was driven far beyond its original design and intention. Sound Blasters, and later built-in clones/compatibles, changed the general outlook of sound.

You'll see a shift to Adlib/SB audio start around 1987-1988, and by 1991 they were no longer niche. PC speaker support started to wane, but didn't entirely go away until Windows 95.

How do I remember this? I ran a BBS in the 90s, and my family was one of the early adopters of sound cards back in 1987 (Creative Music System, later rebranded to Game Blaster before Creative Labs came out with the Adlib-compatible Sound Blaster) and we ended up going through a few of the different cards over the years across multiple PCs.

Perhaps the future will bring electromagnetic clamps like the Arsenal Birds seem to have in Ace Combat 7.

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/acecombat/images/4/4e/AC7_...

Yep. ROB was the gimmick that allowed Nintendo to say to retailers "It's not a video game!" and convince them to stock Nintendo's products. You really can't overestimate the difficulty Nintendo faced in getting ANYONE AT ALL to look at their system; the crash had been so devastating to the market that all the major retailers had completely sworn off ever touching consoles again.

I'd like to have seen the world where this actually came out. I think more than a few of the MS-DOS users of that era might've migrated to that.

It probably could have convinced my father and I to switch, if implemented sufficiently well to allow a good upgrade path.

Not strictly correct. It's provided by whatever WSL distro you download, and that download comes from the distro as opposed to Microsoft.

No speed limiting on >60FPS displays is a bit of a problem, but neat project!

Absolutely this. The firmware contains copyrighted data and that data is also critical to the functioning of the Switch, both emulated and real.

Modern handhelds are not like the older ones, there's actually an OS involved and a lot of per-system settings that uniquely identify your Switch-- especially when it connects to Nintendo's servers or authenticates if you're allowed to play a digital game.

Whereas I just left Debian-based distros because I'm hitting that exact problem with backported patches not arriving in any reasonable length of time in many packages. There seems to be a real manpower problem over at Debian in terms of maintainers.

That certainly puts an interesting spin on the one time I had to ride the back of a bus from west coast to east coast. It was three days and I was physically and mentally exhausted at the end despite sleeping for a fair chunk of it.

Edit to add: Thanks for your input on this, it's insightful and interesting!

I'd moved to VSCode because even on higher end hardware I could feel a substantial improvement compared to Atom. If you don't like the MS integrations, there's VSCodium.

I wouldn't recommend VR for anyone under 12-13 or so. Eyes are still developing at that age and there's a possible chance of screwing up focus with extended VR use.

This has been my experience as well. Google, Bing, DDG, they all fail to work well in some major form or another. Google and Bing don't let you do explicit search demands with quotes; all the power tricks for search are gone and I routinely find myself frustrated with trying to find some things-- especially if they fall into the gaps where Google insists on excluding a term.

I would gladly switch to a search engine that just got it all right in the way that Google pre-2010 did.

And of course the PC demoscene legends Future Crew did Epic Pinball in 1993, so there's definitely some kind of fixation on pinball by demosceners!

Not that that's a bad thing by any means.

They tried that. We're all suffering because a large chunk of the user base refused to be responsible on patches. Of course, now Microsoft has made it even worse by having routinely broken patches since they no longer do proper in-house testing. End result? Damned if you do patch, damned if you don't.

Windows 10 has been a nightmare in terms of patch quality.

Even then you're going to be hitting up DNS to turn "www.gmail.com" into an IP address.

I would assume that with the rate the human body replaces blood they'd end up getting removed over time.

Yep. IE took off not just because of Microsoft's position as the default browser, but because Netscape totally sucked on Windows. I'd switched to IE2 because the Netscape build my ISP offered was horrible and constantly crashed.

They're pushing very hard to have the actual standard manufacturer drivers available via Windows Update, and shipping the control panel as an optional download via the Windows Store.

I had to do a Windows 10 reinstall recently after I broke something severe in the networking stack (entirely on me, I was playing with something I knew I shouldn't have been playing with) and I had the NV 2060 drivers back on my machine pretty much immediately as part of the update installation chain. I just had to go back into the Windows Store to redownload the control panel since it's a hybrid video laptop and I wanted more control over settings.