UncleSlacky

You can install Libreboot on 8th gen Thinkpads now, if that helps:

https://libreboot.org/docs/install/t480.html

> does the x230 as well?

No, but you can fit an X220 keyboard into the X230.

> this little machine refuses to die or become obsolete

(Almost) same here, mid-2012 MBP here, running Solus with 12Gb RAM and a 500Gb SSD.

He can't lose!

> People move freely into becoming labourers and capital owners.

Really? How would that happen? Maybe with a small loan of a million dollars...

I had a hologram from the old Edmund Scientific Catalog in the 70s, a flat piece of film and a green filter for a slide projector, which together would make a seaplane appear in the space in between. It worked, sorta, but it didn't help that I didn't have a slide projector and tried to make do with a flashlight instead.

antiX doesn't "force" anything on anyone, it's not "opinionated" like Omarchy, for example. It even offers a multitude of window managers and inits to choose from.

It's antifascist of course, but that is (or at least used to be) an uncontroversial position.

Or go straight to the distro DSL was forked from - antiX, which has a Debian Trixie-based 32-bit ISO (as well as the expected 64-bit version):

https://antixlinux.com/download/

See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75WFTHpOw8Y

There was also "Meteor Storm":

https://spectrumgamesuk.com/index.php?game=Meteor-Storm

I think it said "Meteor Alert!" or something similar, though the quality was terrible.

FreeDOS exists, no need for AI:

https://freedos.org/

Yeah, I have a couple of e6220s, one running MX Linux and the other Win 10 IoT LTSC. The MX one is my "road warrior" travel laptop as it's tough and still acceptably fast, but I also don't care too much if gets lost or damaged.

T60 user here - just upgraded the CPU to a T7400 C2D, added an SSD and increased the RAM to 4Gb (3.25 or so usable thanks to Libreboot). It's actually still quite usable. I'm currently running Exe GNU/Linux for a modern yet retro look (Trinity DE), and the 4:3 screen and decent keyboard really make it.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism :

"Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property, and equality before the law."

Technically both major parties in the US are liberal parties, it's a "liberal democracy" where they both share a certain set of beliefs, though they may differ on the details. Only in the US is the word used as a slur by one party towards the other.

Funny, because "bob" is slang for shillings in the old LSD pre-decimal British currency system (coins worth 5 pence in the modern system).

They had high market shares in countries with much smaller populations than the US, so in terms of number of countries (particularly in Europe and South America), it dominated in far more of them than the C64 did.

It's based on helloSystem (at least the GUI is), which you may remember from a few years ago?

https://hellosystem.github.io/docs/

WKRP lives!

https://www.wherethemusicwent.com/stream

https://www.iheart.com/live/wkrp-10724/

> they filter traffic/block IPs/force website to imposes checks (like age checks) that aren't done elsewhere, block torrents, etc.

Is that with Orange (France Telecom)? I don't have such issues with Free.

Dammit!

We'd be using wind and water power, as we've done since well before the Industrial Revolution.

I use the F-Droid apps Transistor to listen to streaming radio and Antennapod for podcasts on an old phone:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.y20k.transistor/

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.danoeh.antennapod/

And BASIC in ROM.

Why not just use Fluff Busting Purity?

https://www.fbpurity.com/

Some games even used it for (attempted) speech synthesis:

https://spectrumgamesuk.com/index.php?game=Meteor-Storm

"...possibly the first game with speech synthesis, albeit sounding like an unintelligble gargle."

The well-known country of Europe with its single set of laws? That Europe?

Self-defence can be a valid justification for manslaughter, at least in the UK.

And of course, in the UK, every school had at least one BBC Micro (about the only good thing Thatcher ever did).

The UK also had the Sinclair QL (68008-based) in 1984 for £399, famously owned by Linus Torvalds:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_QL#Linux

Lots of Radio 4 programmes are available as podcasts, and it is possible to stream BBC radio outside the UK without a VPN - see the links here:

http://www.radiofeeds.co.uk/

I quite like the "new" WKRP (in Cincinnati of course), it doesn't seem to be a corporate cookie-cutter kind of station, and it plays the kind of thing the TV version would probably play today (and they even use the same jingles):

https://www.iheart.com/live/wkrp-10724/