nostr:npub1x39s4ejzpydx54ky8kf2jvlg6g48wtyyhjme897cwmswpsumsw7qw4up9l life itself is not advisable. What the fuck are you talking about?
nostr:npub1g3jc6pasekkv39ks9f5rul670yha63lr69xtgtz20ptghuc7kvlq7hk5cu nostr:npub1dme5v398xnrf4p4xmwr3tqfnl3autg49tt2k7s3q7hf40sjtzzfs49ch6s There's a deeper point: the past 70 years of computing have focussed on a spurious vision of progress that forgets to consider the utility of a stable platform. Operating systems in particular are driven by commercial goals (sell more software! Get more Linux desktops out there!) that are actively inimical to the needs of their users. Forcing users to learn a new way of working every year—even if they don't need to—is crazy. And it renders computers inaccessible to the elderly.
nostr:npub1psdfxfpxz2cwmmnsk60y3nqpn2tqh9n24h4hstvfkwvr6eaek9js499sr7 *commercial* software.
You could very well be running an up to date and secure Linux distro with Xfce, GnuStep, or Window Maker which would be exactly the same as a now 70 year old person would have experienced in their mid-forties.
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I found out yesterday - entirely by accident - that Star Trek Lower Decks is a cartoon series. (do they still call it that? animated, drawn, whatever)
That's how far removed from all this media stuff I've become, mostly through not streaming.
Excellent. 👍
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Oh man, my mom even bought me a compuserve subscription. I seem to remember it was something insane like $6/minute?!? (Or was it hour???)
I don't remember using it very much. She got me GEnie in the very early 90s, and that was more affordable (and had a lot of good mac stuff in it)
I vaguely remember hooking up to some BBSes as well, now.
nostr:npub1l3gpk6vrudg8r67swqlex5alv9ch59s4lw46kk6hekuxe2n3aczsyqvu48 none of that was a thing over here. I read about Compuserve in Byte Magazine and I think it was technically available but too expensive.
We did a lot of BBSes and Fidonet in the late 80s/early 90s. In Europe there were no free local calls. Where I lived you paid today's equivalent of 80 cents for a block of 6 daytime or 12 nighttime minutes which was ok if you had a local BBS. A friend of mine ran one out of his student room stuffed full with modems and PCs. 😄
nostr:npub1l3gpk6vrudg8r67swqlex5alv9ch59s4lw46kk6hekuxe2n3aczsyqvu48 woah. My parents would have kicked me to make expensive phone calls then.
My dad still freaked out when I ordered a phone line for my first apartment in 1991. But in the end he was the one using it most so I could help him with his computer accidents. 😂
nostr:npub1ygrf5pf0ahkyyyrngv3twymqcz7pav6ssymrhdj90luscm9llszq56cg6z is this like Bertie Bott's All-Flavour Beans? 😬
nostr:npub1l3gpk6vrudg8r67swqlex5alv9ch59s4lw46kk6hekuxe2n3aczsyqvu48 that's what I'm thinking.
I don't use a file manager at all on Linux as everything can be done better and faster on the command line. On windows there's no other option and exploder is really lacking. Maybe I should try something else there.
Then again I don't care. Windows is a pig and after smearing lipstick on it it's still a pig.