Actually yes.

In my childhood it wasn’t very easy to find a licensed copy (TBF, even pirate copy sometimes), but demos would be distributed with magazines etc.

And after playing a demo which you like a licensed honestly bought copy becomes emotionally much better than piracy.

It was a working mechanism. For games which are not crap anyway.

Trying on 6GB. As a Linux user I usually don’t need more RAM, so haven’t added any yet.

Let me introduce you to FreeDOS!

If I’d want to rewatch Babylon V, I’d pirate it. Same for Star Wars (not even talking about despecialized editions, I just don’t want to give a dime to Disney).

Actually I like this.

All those people who’ve been trying to keep corporate technologies “open” were, in fact, working for the corporations to make people come to them. Most unknowingly, maybe. It’s just, well, litany of Gendlin case. You rely on corporate power, even if you are trying to hide it and talk about “open Web”.

The most important thing is that we take ideologically corporate technology where it’s not needed (there’s been plenty of hypertext systems in history, some kinda successful, and all that JS and AJAX stuff and various frameworks on top are so complex not because of any usefulness, but because of the corporate goal of backward compatibility, lumping everything together and even intentional complexity to cut off competition, and a single space).

We’d be just fine with a bunch of incompatible between themselves Hypercard-like things working over network. That’s what I think.

I really dislike Apple for what they’ve been in my somehow conscious years (born 1996), but things like Hypercard and Hotline (or KDX) from their older time seem to be just the right way to use personal computers.

Any single space with propaganda of “fragmentation being bad” is either not immune to what has happened to the Web, or already compromised.

Cool, I really want something like RPi, but with SATA on RISC-V. Maybe somebody will make “laptop” cases with normal deep travel keyboards for these too. It’s a possibility, at least.

That’s why we need science fiction, to not be afraid of all the abhorrent and abhorrently efficient weapons the future holds for us.

And yes, Star Wars is a very perceptive choice of name on part of George Lucas.

The scary part is that we all sit on our sweaty bottoms while such things are being developed not by bad guys and good guys to fight each other over us, but by bad guys and bad guys to fight each other over us.

Natural selection. Docker apes must suffer.

Windows, Mac, iOS and Android will all “work” even if you have no idea what you are doing and no plans to to learn.

Oh no they won’t. You’ll just replace iOS and Android devices too often to notice, and with Windows you’ve gotten used to fixing broken crap.

If something doesn’t work immediately it’s up to the user to search the relevant keywords and see if there is a is a fix

Worked much better for me that the alternative process under Windows. May be the main reason I switched.

You are not. It also worked, unlike … .