Braini

You are probably right but man, isn't this so very disillusioning? I am a bit in such a hole you mentioned and thinking about how to get out of it best - one of my ideas/hopes was to find more "sexy" projects at some point. Oh well.

That is true in some way but the original decision to shut them down was taken about 20 years ago by the left red/green government.

Merkels convernment initially decided to keep them running longer but took a 180 after Fukushima, probably as you say having the right feeling for the majority opinion in the country at that time.

These were just the last 5%, go back around 20 years where the shutdown was initially decided and it was about 30%.

This ^. Its remarkable how well thought out and consistent the UI was. Been here since Win3.0 and the Win95/NT4/Win2k UI, more or less up to Windows 7 is really good even if certainly some things could be improved. Starting with 8 its just an utter mess old man yelling.

And, fun fact, these old(er) dialogs are still often better/easier to understand than the new ones. This may be partially nostalgia speaking but I really dislike the new settings and would like to have kept Windows 7 style control panel with some improvements (e.g. resizable, layout managed dialogs). But it is what it is, on the Mac side it also started going downhill after catalina.

Yes, iMUSE (Interactive Music Streaming Engine) as they called it was genius, not sure whether something like this does still exist these days.

I am really wondering if/when this is getting fixed, really strange that it is still happening.

I still remember young, in this regard surprisingly clueless me being soo excited when moving to my first PC (some 486) with a Soundblaster clone, coming from an Amiga 500. The ad said something about 22 voices, how cool would that be (as the Amiga had 4)! Now envision my surprise when I heard the sound of these 22 voices in some of the demos mentioned on this page when I was used to the Amiga.

Well, over time with faster CPUs, software mixing, AWE32, GUS or EWS64 etc. the problem solved itself and in the meantime I really like the FM sounds for what they are but man was I disappointed at that time.

Funny enough I have the opposite opinion regarding twitter: If I use it in timeline mode I have the urge to read through all of it until where I stopped last time as the OP described (same with my Feedly RSS feed) In algorithm mode its more like a "don't care, its garbled anyway, just a sea of stuff". That being said I am still mostly using timeline mode.

Offtopic regarding [1]

I just love these websites which mimic the Amiga UI or at least show the mouse pointer, instant nostalgia kick. For example also the amigalove forum.

You beat me to it, this is highly recommended and was a joy to watch.

too bad -> too big, typo

This so much, the Mac touchpad is almost perfect, still no other manufacturer can compete, its really night and day. With all other systems I immediately switch to a mouse if possible.

It was actually perfect in my 2015 MBP, now its a tad too bad and its hard to find good resting positions for the fingers and palms.

This. It has been that way as long as I am working in the field and over the years I have grown so tired of it (probably a sign of burnout). I am at your 20/20 stage as well, so might be the mid-career-crisis or something.

At least for Outlook I could still switch back this time, which I immediately did.

Thats just wrong. There are more than enough healthy humans for which it is much more than just a bad cold, which end up in the ICU eventually. To my understanding it is not possible to know upfront who is such a human and who is not, even perfectly healthy people have bad outcomes. And yes, I am aware its just a small percentage of people in certain age groups.

But you need to differentiate this by age group. Chance of dying of Covid is not 100x to 1000x times higher for the age group affected by the CVT so I can understand every caution here. Its not correct to compare/mix the different age groups from my POV.

Here is a very nice set of articles about the book, movie and both games by the digital antiquarian: https://www.filfre.net/2018/11/controlling-the-spice-part-1-... https://www.filfre.net/2018/11/controlling-the-spice-part-2-... https://www.filfre.net/2018/12/controlling-the-spice-part-3-...

Same topic, a very nice and interesting article about Dune II: https://www.filfre.net/2018/12/controlling-the-spice-part-3-...

The previous one about Dune I is also very interesting.

IMHO the best emulation so far is the FPGASID (http://www.fpgasid.de/). There are a number of YouTube videos where it is compared against the originals.