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by axiolite 5y ago
Some old Windows software still works well on Win10, while a lot of old Windows software does not. Some old Linux software is pretty easy to get running on a modern system, while some of it is not.
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by axiolite 5y ago
> Before the railroad, an estimated 65,000 people died on the Oregon Trail. After, they hopped on a train and arrived intact 3 days later. "Railroad travel was dangerous in the early years. Train wrecks and derailments were common
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by axiolite 5y ago
> If anyone knows some good arguments to use when your partner is an excellent cook and loves gas for the high heat (searing and wok frying), I'm all ears. Other comments had some good suggestions, but I'd be sure to also ment
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by axiolite 5y ago
I agree with everything you've said, BUT, I find small tank (10gal or less) electric hot water heaters surprisingly cost-effective options if you are using very low-flow aerators and shower heads (0.5-1.0 GPM). And particularly so if y
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by axiolite 5y ago
I noticed Borland/Novell Quattro 6.x (for Win 3.1) is available for download, from before Corel bought the product and rolled it into their Office Suite: https://winworldpc.com/product/quattro-pro/6x Too old
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by axiolite 5y ago
I didn't see anything in your entire comment about how to go about fixing things from here.
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by axiolite 5y ago
> even a $100 Android phone creams the Pine Phone That $100 Android phone is going to be carrier locked (subsidized by the carrier) and probably an older model where the R&D has already been paid-off, not an all new device. Once the
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by axiolite 5y ago
I have yet to hear a plan to end poverty which might work. UBI and "negative income tax" will fail the drug addicted and mentally ill, most of whom will continue to make bad choices and remain homeless. Raising minimum wage shows
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by axiolite 5y ago
Sony hamstrung Minidisc by enforcing separation between audio and data. While the audio MDs became widely available and pretty cheap, the data MDs were rare and expensive. It's largely the same reason standalone CD recorders failed i
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by axiolite 5y ago
> whenever I search for 'how to do X?' there is a lot of video results for sometimes very trivial things You can usually pull the transcript/subtitles, without watching the video.
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by axiolite 5y ago
The age at which someone is elderly and likely to die soon is much higher than it used to be, thanks to the medical community NOT sharing your opinion and giving up on the elderly.
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by axiolite 5y ago
> Fiber is only reasonably inexpensive in dense urban areas. In dense urban areas it is expensive to retrofit a network. You have to maintain the existing while you run the new, won't have a lot of space, any digging or new poles i
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by axiolite 5y ago
Might double-check your links: wget https://krzysztofjankowski.com/floppinux/downloads/0.1.0/flo... 2021-05-22 16:28:03 ERROR 404: Not Found. Archive.org mirror link works. Will test it out when I have a chan
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by axiolite 5y ago
I'm disappointed there are no links to binaries/disk images to download. Building it all is overkill for the average reader to just try it out and see if it's at all useful.
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by axiolite 5y ago
Thanks for the link. Seems his scripts need more work because lots of HTML tags are being incorrectly escaped. e.g.: <pre> $ <b>tr -cd ' -~' < /dev/urandom |</b> <i><b>fold -w 20 |
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by axiolite 5y ago
The author, Michal Necasek, is certainly an expert on decompiling old binaries. He has reverse-engineered old copy protection system, patches old operating systems to run on modern systems or emulators, patches together broken installation
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by axiolite 5y ago
The California CCPA makes this much easier than it used-to be. Find the company's website. They'll have a "Do Not Sell" link on the home page or at least in the Privacy Policy it'll say California Privacy Rights. T
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by axiolite 5y ago
People whine about infrastructure being accessible over the internet, but in the old days it was just accessible over the phone network instead of the internet. It's not realistic for every bit of infrastructure to have the security p
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by axiolite 5y ago
I started using RSS in a big way when I got my first smartphone.* Navigating websites using your thumb is slow and cumbersome. Not to mention just clicking a bunch of bookmarks on your phone takes ages longer than on a desktop. But with R
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by axiolite 5y ago
Not as clear as case as we've been led to believe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYWSXRUGxDQ
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by axiolite 5y ago
Amtrak hasn't worked out. The USPS no longer needs mail sorting cars, and air travel has been deregulated and is highly cost competitive. The Amtrak system should just be abolished, except in the North East corridor where they own much
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by axiolite 5y ago
That's why I like RSS. Strip out everything but the content and use whatever UI I prefer. Newsbeuter is a good RSS readers for the terminal. Several services and open source programs like TT-RSS allow you to get the full-text instea
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by axiolite 5y ago
> What is the $/MWh cost associated with mining for, recycling, and disposing of battery components? A fraction of the cost of the batteries, naturally. > What about the third order effects of centralizing control over the fuel
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by axiolite 5y ago
I'd like that too, but I'd want enough space to fit one of those Atom mini-PCs into it. Just imagine, you could keep using your laptop for decades upon decades! Your upgrade is just swapping out the mini-PC inside it.
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by axiolite 6y ago
It's easy to convert from PDF to EPS. Are you saying the PDF conversion step mangles it beyond recognition?
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by axiolite 6y ago
You must be using HTTPS-Everywhere or similar add-on. The link is http:// so nobody should be connecting via SSL.
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by axiolite 6y ago
There are others utilities which do the same. I imagine Wyse is much more widespread than vt52 escape sequences today: https://github.com/gutschke/wy60
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by axiolite 6y ago
RS-232 (1960) is still going strong.
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by axiolite 6y ago
> My experience... there aren't a ton of choices in this space. There are a few FTP servers designed to power B2B backend services. Many of the options are designed only to provide access to the local filesystem. The "local fil
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by axiolite 6y ago
> I have no idea what technology would make truly painless 3D. Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.

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