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"Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me." But it should have been, like Bush said: "Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."

10.9 seems also to be the last version that had an "depth" to the icons.

I just started using Obsidian with Word-Smith plugin [1]. And when I say "just started", I literally mean a few days ago, so I can't really give a verdict yet. Sync is handled by Dropbox.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLq91cDWx0s

All I could think about watching the trailer was that this must be a game based on Starship Troopers.

I remember people I knew wanting the Matrox because it was possible to have duel screen on Linux. They usually had a huge grin on LAN parties, once they got their breath back from carrying two heavy CRT monitors and a PC tower. Good times.

Earlier this year, a few weeks before the price hike, I bought an MacBook Air M5, and it was everything I hoped it would be. Long battery life and silent. The last part is important for me. I've gotten so fed up over the years by Wintel (Windows/Intel) machines where the fans are always running, even when idle.

My last Mac was an MacBook Air from 2011 (now we can talk about "a little sluggish"). I also don't dislike the current MacOS, although I do prefer the older look to the new one. But this is from a person using Windows 11 at work, so everything is a step up, right?

I love client side validation.

At least there will be a copy left for us. The AI companies won't share these books in their original form.

Thanks for the patience. After a good nights sleep I see it straight away... "Now includes well rested brain".

Yeah, sorry... It did not. Is it a reference I don't get?

Link number 2, about Tim Paterson, was new to me. Thanks.

As the article stated; they made the boxes before they had secured the license. I.e. the boxes were made before the content was ready.

I can recommend "The Digital Antiquarian" for games (https://www.filfre.net/) and "Abort Retry Fail" for hardware companies (https://www.abortretry.fail/)

Maybe it's as simple as for the people making the boxes, it didn't contain Tetris from the start. And when they got the license, in their head, it now did have Tetris.

It's a long time since I used Facebook on a regular basis, but Instagram is a weak spot where I have had to set the phone to give me just 10 minutes per day, then shut it off. Now I can go days without opening the app, and I usually manage to exit before the time is up.

I can highly recommend the book "Carless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams if you want to know just how bad it really is/was. Just remember that this is just one side of the story. Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg (no longer at Meta) probably have a different story.

I read somewhere that Microsoft stopped doing these maps because of border disputes.

Don't mention Taiwan to the Chinese, etc.

My favorite was the blue in Windows 2000. Never cared much for the green in Windows 95/98. When installing Windows 98 later (because games) I would try to set up the same blue. Instead of getting it correct, I guessed, and ended up with #336699 which was easy to remember and "close enough". I see now that it's closer to Haiku (almost perfect, #336698) than Windows 2000.

FYI; This link shows Codex based on your current OS. I get a norwegian landing page with a download link for Windows.

So, different rules for the rich?

I fail to see how a rescue mission is more likely to get you boarded, with all the attention a mayday will attract.

What a lovely little story. Inspiring even.

> to make their installations work just to get a UX that's almost as good as Windows from 20 years ago

To be fair, that was the peak of Windows UI. Also, KDE Plasma is way ahead of Windows (any of them).

Not that long ago I clicked on a link that Microsoft provided somewhere in Windows -- could have been the event log, I don't remember. I do remember it was for a specific support article, but it ended up at a generic landing page for something. I am not talking about a link from Windows 95, it must have been Windows 10. But regardless, it is all gone. Then again, it probably wasn't a cool URL to begin with.

It's amazingly many news sites that also seem to scrub their URLs every time they do a redesign. Also uncool.

Yeah, it was better. Windows 8 and 8.1 was a disappointment with its "metro style".

"Why should you go to jail for a crime someone else ... noticed" — Bob Loblaw

> I see a future where it does roll into azure and become a hosted only “feature”

It seems that way. And most people would probably follow along, not knowing any alternatives. But I like the idea of "local first", no online account required.

Ed Zitron wrote about this (at length) earlier this week: <https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-demand-bubble/#analysts-e...>

At some point I guess things became "good enough". The leap to Windows 95 was huge. The leap to Windows 2000 was huge. Leaps in hardware was huge as well around at that time.

It's many years ago I felt things started to plateau. When was the last time you were excited about a new processor? Or a bigger hard drive? If Microsoft makes their money from OEMs, and OEMs want to sell new hardware, I guess Windows needs to demand more resources... to keep the OEMs happy. TPM 2.0? For our security, or an easy way to sell new hardware, since Windows 10 will be "obsolete" and you "have" to upgrade to Windows 11.

And just to squeeze out some extra bucks, Microsoft discovered what Google and Facebook found out years ago... there is serious money in advertising.

I have an old Windows 8.1 PC in a corner. It has all I need, really. Enough disk and RAM for my usage (not a gamer).

I'm not so sure. Is there really a demand for more AI data centers? Has anyone been turned down by OpenAI or Antrophic because they are out of capacity?

This puzzled me as well.

Fabien did a code review of Trespasser back in 2014: https://fabiensanglard.net/trespasser/index.php