I haven’t done that in a long time.

Most recently I probably overcolocked my original playstation portable.

That brings a whole new meaning to impostor syndrome.

I switched in 1997.

The internet was taking off, and it was built on Linux and un*ces. It was just a lot more fun.

Also, C-programming. M$ had just gotten protected memory in NT4.0, but a lot of applications just didn’t run on NT. It’d take another three years before protected memory hit mainstream with win2k. No novice programmer wants their computer to bluescreen every time they do a tiny little out of bounds error.

I worked at a niche factory some 20 years ago. We had a tape robot with 8 tapes at some 200GB each. It’d do a full backup of everyone’s home directories and mailboxes every week, and incremental backups nightly.

We’d keep the weekly backups on-site in a safe. Once a month I’d do a run to another plant one town over with a full backup.

I guess at most we’d need five tapes. If they still use it, and with modern tapes, it should scale nicely. Today’s LTO-tapes are 18TB. Driving five tapes half an hour would give a nice bandwidth of 50GB/s. The bottleneck would be the write speed to tape at 400MB/s.

Sounds like it’s localStorage. But I’d expect that to be covered by “site data” in that option.

It’s a bit like cookies, but just for one site. Some think they can avoid cookie consent banners with localStorage.

Firefox has a page on the topic.

I use navmii for offline navigation. The search functionality is not so great, but the navigation works swell.

I started with Commodore KERNAL/BASIC 2.0 on the VIC-20, if that counts as an operating system. Otherwise GeOS on the Commodore 64.

First Linux distro was slackware 3.0.

Additionally, chat monitoring would not apply to accounts used for national security, investigations, or military purposes.

Why do they want to protect the pedophiles working for nations and militaries?

I guess it all depends on perspective.

I love that it’s free compared to those $10-20k licenses for similar systems.

I love that there are good package managers.

I love that it’s open source.

I hate that it’s GPLv2.

I hate how bloated the kernel is. I’d like it to fit into main memory.

I hate how it’s not POSIX-certified.

It depends on how far down the rabbithole you go.

I switched to Linux 27 years ago. My wife asks me to help her with her Windows computer every now and then, and I can’t really do it for more than a few minutes before my blood pressure is in the risk zone.

MorphOS. It’s still kicking.

I’ve always been quite deadline driven. So the week before going to the breakpoint demo party I wrapped up a Commodore 64 demo in a long series of all-nighters.

When I finally crashed I was dreaming 6502 assembly.

In no order:

• Diablo 2
• Chrono trigger
• The incredible machine
• Loom
• Bravely default
• The secret of monkey island
• Prince of Persia
• Rampart
• Papers, please
• Zak McKracken and the alien mindbenders

I used to play it a lot when it was cool.

I thought it was an ncurses multiplayer tetris-clone.

I’ve never had a car loan in my life. I’ve never had comprehensive insurance. I’ve had four cars in 22 years. Only once have I had a car less than 12.6 years old, and just barely. 10y is the sweet spot when I go used car shopping.

My current 2007 C4 grand picasso sitting at 153k km should last me at least another four-five years before I hit my pain point maintenance-wise.

I cracked the windshield on my current car, but that repair cost 1/5 of what 22 years of windshield insurance would’ve cost, ignoring inflation.

Likely they’ll force app/play store to require compliance for the apps published in that region.

Yes, yes, side loading, FOSS. Grandma won’t sideload, and responsibility will be on the platform owner. That’s you if you run your own matrix server for your grandma.

Resizable BAR was previously cited as a requirement for Intel ARC cards, but I think the drivers today can do without. Sounds like your system might be too old to have that. Might be a soft requirement, as in you’ll see a performance drop if you don’t have it.

I’d get a HDMI capture card for the tablet, if it supports USB-otg. Just run a program to preview the input on the tablet and connect it like any monitor to your laptop.

Consumer rights in the EU are pretty strong. They include two-week free returns, no questions asked, on things purchased online/remote.

These rights do not extend to businesses, though. Sounds like Amazon is not interested in being helpful unless legislation is twisting their arm.