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I think at that point we were still thinking of computers as expensive tools to be shared; it hadn't been that long since a computer took up a whole room and would be shared by all users in several businesses. We also weren't as concerned about security because most of the really important business stuff was locked away on the mainframe.

Lucky on the battery.. ours started swelling after about 7-8 years of heavy use, and made the trackpad click by itself. I think I also had to replace the display cable and one of the ram slots stopped working. Other than that it was a solid computer for about 10 years until we replaced it with a 2012 model, still in use.

I was introduced to the character by way of Bertolt Brecht's Schweyk im zweiten Weltkrieg (Švejk in the Second World War)[0], which was meant as a sequel to Hašek's original and which I read in school- unfortunately too long ago to remember much of anything but Švejk's good-natured bumbling.

We also read Biedermann und die Brandstifter (The Fire Raisers/The Arsonists)[1], also by Brecht, which I remember somewhat more vividly. The main character is an ordinary guy who thinks he could never be fooled by arsonists, but allows a pair of them to fill his home with flammable material and ends up aiding them in his own demise. I worry that we have failed to learn the lessons of this kind of Nachkriegsliteratur (Post-WWII literature).

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweik_in_the_Second_World_Wa...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fire_Raisers_(play)

I've just been reading this longer article from 2020 which has a lot more about his life: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/may/26/last-iron-lu...

It says he went out with friends, saw movies, and even flew on planes while "frog-breathing", as he called it. He couldn't do it while unconscious so he still had to sleep in the lung.

I probably would have started a bit earlier, though admittedly the features I remember and care(d) about are only of interest to retrocomputing enthusiasts anymore.

- 10.5 Leopard: Classic mode removed (can no longer run Mac OS 9 apps), won't run on G3 processors or install on systems under 867MHz (though not difficult to circumvent).

- 10.6 Snow Leopard: AppleTalk removed. Can no longer create HFS volumes. Removed support for all PowerPC processors.

And busy streets once again knee-deep in manure? Horses aren't exactly zero-emission either.

Though realistically, a lot more people walked. Not everybody could afford to feed or care for a horse.

Recently I was trying to create lightweight SVG images for an embedded project and was looking for exactly this type of thing. I ended up drawing them in Inkscape and then opening in a text editor to strip out everything that wasn't necessary, and round every coordinate to the nearest integer. I was using Ristretto next to the text editor to see the changes and was kind of wishing it could go the other way as well, maybe as a plugin for Geany or something.

I was confused by the headline, because my own Macintosh Classic has 4MB with the expansion card. I seem to remember reading about people swapping or piggybacking RAM chips to upgrade earlier compact Macs where RAM was sorely lacking.

Easier to mess with or reinstall OS remotely if you're not sitting in front of it, I'd imagine. Also can be easier to back up the whole system or take a snapshot of the system state, or nuke it and start over if you really screw it up.

I've dabbled with VMs for test environments but generally just install on bare metal.

My favorite home lab setup was when I had an old (originally XP, switched it to Ubuntu) laptop and a couple of USB drives in the top drawer of a scavenged file cabinet. I cut a hole in the back for the wires and it never generated enough heat for airflow to be an issue. I hosted my personal website on it, including a webcam of my aquarium, hooked it up to my doorbell, XMPP, used it for document storage... anything I needed a server for. I switched to an old Mac Mini for NAS after I moved and haven't had much time to mess with it since.

Or, more kindly, the featured article.

Or as social criticism! A lot of tech giants seem to be trying to bring about the techno-future of scifi and completely missing the point that a lot of it is a dystopian hellscape serving as a thin veil over commentary on contemporary society.

I was using a Core2 Duo with 4GB as my main home computer until about a year ago, and while some sites made it run slowly (mostly recipe sites and others with a lot of video ads) it was certainly still usable. The trick was to keep the browser down below 10 or so tabs and close it when I needed to use some other heavy piece of software.

I had Windows 1.01 and 2.03 on boot floppies, they were both small enough to just copy the files into a DOS bootdisk and fit fine. However in my experience most of the programs that I wanted to run in Windows that wouldn't run in DOS required at least Windows 3.x to work.

Good rundown... I was about to say I skipped the whole decade going from 80s and 90s cars directly to a 2010s car, but unlike the other mk6 Jettas the wagon version (my current car) was really just a heavily facelifted mk5.

The mk4 Jetta was really a great car. My parents both had them in the late 00s and we all loved them, but always kind of wished one of them was a wagon.

I really wanted one of these when they came out. Now I'd much rather have one of their classic three-wheelers... The mid-2000s styling still looks okay but hasn't aged gracefully. (Or it might just be the silver paint that seemed so cool on everything in the mid-2000s!)

I don't usually take the time to write out a daily to-do list, but I do keep one for long-term projects that I tend to lose track of. Each line is a task and at the beginning of the line is the date it was initiated/requested. It's semi-structured but doesn't take any longer than typing out a note.

At the beginning of the month I duplicate the file and rename it for the new month, then I clean out just like you do.

I've tried apps, I've tried tracking systems, and this seems to work best for me for now. I can keep it open all the time in a tab of my text editor which I would have open anyway and it backs up with the rest of my files.

Though the flavor text is heavily inspired by her works, the game doesn't reference any of them directly, and I think it stands pretty well on its own. It's not really specific to the Victorian era either, more of a general old-timey English aristocracy theme.

At its core it's really about allocating scarce resources and timing actions over a limited number of turns to build your family's standing in society, and the courtship element is a strong means to that end.

Personally I feel like the complexity score may be a bit low; I'm not really much of a tabletop gamer though. It's about as complicated a game as I think I could enjoy.

This is very timely for me as I spent last evening playing Obsession[1]- a board game based on courtship and prestige in (roughly) the era of Austen. They have a few specialized rule variations and one is named for Austen, in which the interest of the desired suitor is not revealed until the end of the season, mimicking the veiled intent of her characters. Definitely worth checking out if you have a long evening and a long attention span.

1: https://www.geeksundergrace.com/tabletop/review-obsession/

I think I kind of internalized that idea from my early soft eng courses; after seeing how efficiently a computer can find a result by cutting the set in half repeatedly, I've tried to apply that approach elsewhere when it fits.

I haven't seen the moon man but the vanishing point has a little door that closes over the nib when it's retracted.

> months are not okay

I was a big (cheap) fountain pen collector for a while and used them almost exclusively in school, but then I had a few jobs that didn't involve much writing and they kind of fell by the wayside. I'm still discovering pens that I left full of ink and after a few years they can really get messed up. The cheaper ones end up with nibs broken from rust, but the ones that avoid that fate get their feeds and filling systems clogged up with dry ink instead.

Now I try to have only two or three pens inked at a time because I'll forget about any more than that. I had myself a little flush-and-dry party the other night because I discovered several that I had left inked.

I can also definitely second the recommendation for a stub nib. I ground a custom one at one point and it was just perfect, nice line variation and smooth writing.

Thanks for the tip! I'll have to watch and see if it gets Lineage eventually as I don't really care for Samsung's software, but by the time I'm ready to replace my OnePlus it might be a contender.

Exactly! I had really hoped that would catch on, but I only ever saw it on some Nokia Winphones and cheaper Androids. The glass back is one of my least favorite features of modern phones and metal isn't much better (pick your poison: shatter, dent, or scratch). The 5c was also a bit of a callback to Apple's white polycarbonate era and some of my absolute favorite Macs.

I even saw some renders of a translucent replacement back for the 5c inspired by the original fruit iMacs[1]. (Shut up and take my money!)

1: https://9to5mac.com/2013/04/03/concept-imagines-low-cost-iph...

I had an iPhone 4 and then a 5c (same size as the 5). The 4 was usually fine, sometimes a bit cramped, but the 5c really hit the sweet spot for screen size and one-handed usability. Someday I hope someone makes a decent modern phone just like the 5c.

Oh, that makes so much more sense. For some reason I was thinking the reed switch was inside the button! Those coils are pretty strong.

Wow, and I thought my doorbell was complicated! I used an ESP-01 with a button to send an HTTP request to my home server, which would send me an XMPP message (to my phone and watch) and also send an HTTP request to another ESP01 which was connected through a relay to an old elevator bell, which would flash and ding twice. It worked reliably enough but some times it would take up to 30 seconds after pushing the button before the bell would ring.

Now that I'm in a house I installed a boring old wired doorbell which doesn't send me any messages, but does ring instantly every time it's pushed.

Edit: How does the reed switch work inside the doorbell? Very intrigued by this setup.

Note the first paragraph - it's not payment (or lack thereof) that is being called into question. It's a matter of availability. Despite the streaming companies' worldwide reach they can't (or won't bother to) get the rights to stream content to different countries.

My computer's battery lasts so much longer if I just don't use it.

> without being nickel-and-dimed or having ads shoved in your face.

Or, increasingly, both!