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Give me an email, and I'll invite you.

In 1986, I purchased a copy of Turbo Pascal 3.0 for $35 at the university bookstore. It was the cat's pajamas.

Thank you; it looks good so far.

Intel Macs that are no longer supported can run Linux instead.

So much for being anonymous and reading old.reddit.com?

LibreOffice is good for the home user, hobbyist, and student, but lacks the advanced accounting functions of Excel.

A C&D took down Nitter and XCancel because they used X data without the advertising, etc. I still call X Twitter.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2026/08/26/cease-a...

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I remember writing code in a paper notebook in 1986 and then having columns for each variable and simulating the computer processing the language. It can be done, but it is much harder than using a computer.

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Let me guess: the network is called Skynet? Do you want Terminators? Because that is how you get Terminators! :)

Thanks, I'll bookmark it and check it out later.

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https://www.usdebtclock.org/ Bookmark that site; it has the stats on US Debt and related accounts.

It is good that there is a native macOS version of Quake; this is needed for more games.

I don't trust cloud services; I bought a 12T USB hard drive for my backups.

The Super Debuggers who can debug Vibe Code are in demand. I fix Vibe Code.

Is it like the universe is fighting back against humans trying to build a nuclear power plant?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMPshop Nope, GIMPshop allowed Photoshop pirates to switch to free open-source software.

What about Linux that doesn't use SystemD?

Looks good as a homebrew game.

This is censorship; it is like saying you can't eat a steak because a baby can't chew it. They will try to ban Linux or fine Linux developers unless it reports the user's age.

Yahoo did the same thing to its web browser and Yahoo Groups, not to mention Geocities. If something costs more to support than it brings in, a company will end support for it.

Software as a Service is the model Microsoft Office and Adobe products went to with subscriptions. I can use LibreOffice instead of MS Office, but GIMP isn't the same as Photoshop, etc. There needs to be a moonshot project to make GIMP and others as easy to use as Photoshop and have the same features.

I hope it does better than TempleOS.

Looks like a version of "Sorry".

It was too expensive anyway.

The consumption of energy and the pollution of water sources. Some people living next to Data Centers have an $ 850-a-month electric bill because the Data Center uses so much power that it increases the rate due to shortages. Also, all of the debt used to fund Data Centers is creating an AI Bubble that might pop soon.

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Yeah, but if you do 100 things with low quality, it is going to be crappy. In the mid-1990s, I did quality control work on debugging code for Visual BASIC and ASP web pages. Now people are rushed to do sloppy work in quantity because it is done fast, not quality, where it is done right.