What aspect of retro computing are you into? The hardware, gaming, writing software with ancient versions of BASIC?

I really thought the nerds would have bailed to gemini by now. The amount of enshittification they’re willing to put up with is troubling.

I’ve hated the prevalence of too-permissive licenses in the past 15 years. People need to go fucking brush up on their Stallman writings

It’s not that I dislike Linux, I love it, but I have motor disabilities that AutoHotkey is very, very, very good at accommodating. Python/autokey et al can’t compare.

I don’t like it, but I will say that it beats that period where I was forced to constantly do captchas

I wouldn’t be surprised if even using Firefox triggers it or something stupid like that.

It’s like asking a rando to write a Rust program. Just not going to happen at the level necessary to be good. There are people getting very, very good results with Claude.

Ask her about her past. There’s a good chance she’ll love telling you all her old stories, and that you’ll find some of them interesting.

Private health insurance. Non-universal health care.

It’s not necessarily something to be ashamed of. In some societies, people rarely cook for themselves at all. It’s all done by professionals and the restaurants are cheap and plentiful enough to support that. The problem is that this is definitely not the case in the places you are probably referring to

This is partly on software devs these past 10-15 years. They’ve gotten so much lazier when it comes to making their software easy to install. Legitimate software often ends up having a 10-long list of instructions to install it.

I would guess around 2002 or so when I reinstalled TIE Fighter or Descent for the last time.

In 2012 I built a PC that could play Skyrim on Ultra settings for $1200. That includes the cost of the monitor and peripherals.

That’s what I thought. You weren’t.

Rule 6?

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Please tell me about how you were poisoned.

I don’t get people who are stingy on schools. I’m getting to the age where I’m starting to depend on doctors younger than I am so I don’t suffer and die. I do not want to go cheap on their education

Can’t really blame them for that, since income can come and go for a variety of reasons.

What I do wish, however, is that people would be more cautious about having children. There are too many unprepared and unfit parents.

Not too long ago I learned that you’re not supposed to rinse your mouth out after brushing your teeth, but instead just spit out the toothpaste. Apparently you’re supposed to leave a coating of it on your teeth for it to work properly.