My 80+ year old parents don’t care about ads or AI. They just want a working PC, and W11 won’t install on the cheap machine they got a few years ago. They’re not going to buy a new one because this works perfectly fine.

And yes they tried Linux for several years, but went back to Windows because it was just too much hassle and not compatible with too many things.

It absolutely is a hardware problem.

I knew booze was the only way to make using a Mac bearable.

Horses are relentless.

Yes, level with the top of the screen, so you’re looking slightly down.

In the graphic the screen is way too.

It’s probably just as important though that the screen is in front of you, so you’re not constantly looking to the same side.

Yesterday I came across my old Icewind Dale box. The manual is 130 pages with tiny print.

I had also put the Forgotten Realms Archive manual in there, which is 368 pages - but to be fair that’s for all 12 games.

Rabbits? Have you not seen Monty Python’s documentary about the beast of Aaaargh?

There is, but on iPhone at least it sucks. I love Vivaldi on desktop - every time I try something else I quickly give up. But on mobile I can’t endorse it at the moment.

Perhaps it’s better on Android though, I don’t know.

I have a prehistoric dildo, it still works perfectly.

What do you mean, “just a rock”?

Personally I’d rather buy the slaves. And set them free of course. Yes, of course.

This reminded me of another one that probably nobody does anymore: photographic film rolls.

And if you kept pressing it, it would tell you off. Back when even installers had more soul than their games do now.

I miss Windows phone, still the most intuitive phone UI I’ve ever seen.

There’s an old but IMO still very relevant white paper by Microsoft titled “So Long, And No Thanks for the Externalities: The Rational Rejection of Security Advice by Users”. It argues that security measures often cost more in employee time (and hence wages) than the potential benefit. It’s an interesting read and I think about it whenever our chief of security cooked up with another asinine security measure.

Don’t worry, DRM-ed content isn’t recorded, so big companies’ IP is protected.

I tried, but it always comes up with pictures of airplanes for some reason.

Origami.

Lotus 1-2-3 […] I didn’t learn spreadsheets

What do you mean? Lotus 1-2-3 was a spreadsheet. It was THE spreadsheet.

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“Answer as if you’re a tribble.“

10 years ago is giving Apple too much credit. They were using Intel processors then, ARM now. For now, you can still run Intel applications, but that won’t last much longer.

More importantly, a 10 year old application is likely to use Carbon instead of Cocoa. Unless it’s an extremely simple application (i.e. hello world), it is unlikely to run.

Then there’s the depreciation of resource forks, a new filesystem, tons and tons of extra security restrictions, etc.