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Hm altered carbon season 1 was pretty good?

the books are still on my to read list.

It was not like lot's of very talented Amiga devs didn't try their very best to create a Wolfenstein/Doom clone for their platform, but iirc the bitplane setup used by Amiga gfx, which enabled lot's of other cool features did not perform well with the opereations needed for "3D" games.

Then with Quake, the 3rd party 3D graphics cards market took off, and even if there were cards for the Amigas too, market economics made them unviable.

And even though I usually appreciate Datagubbe's writings, this time I think his take is incorrect. At least in my circles Wolfenstein / Doom and ultimately Quake was the final nails in the Amiga's coffin.

Sure, the picture is bigger - PC market drove down prices and very soon the price/performance difference was very unfavorable for Amiga - but at least initially the issue was kids wanted to play Wolfenstein, Doom, or at least something similar, and that was not possible if you stayed on the Amiga.

Not an answer to your specific questions, but my recommendation i always

1. Learn as much elisp as you can

2. Learn the help system

3. https://emacs.stackexchange.com

4. Bind eval-region to easy to reach key for testing and troubleshooting

Emacs is a what I would call an extreme case of a positive feedback loop application, the more effort and time you put in learning it, the more you get back. This is of course true for almost any application, but with Emacs being a complete text manipulation system more effort is required.

Who owns iD software nowadays? Reading the title I first thought John Carmack had started hunting down metal bands...

Scores are one thing, using it is another.

I ran OpenBSD on a Thinkpad T450 for over a year, but recently switched to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, not because of lack of speed, but some missing applications and blutooth support.

Given I don't run a heavy desktop environment, rather just StumpWM, but still I did not in any way feel OpenBSD was slower than Linux, using the same applications.

OpenSUSE is the most solid Linux I have used so far, but OpenBSD was more to my liking setting up and maintaining. It is well thought out, simple, and... just makes sense.

Yes! That was it.

When on the subject of "things lost in the mists of time", did the original OpenBeOS lead (Michael?) ever return?

IIRC that was one of the two/three main ways forward discussed and planned for after Be Inc went belly up.

- OpenBeOS (Haiku) - rewrite from scratch

- Option 2 (can't remember if it had a name) - was just to Implement BeOS userland on a Linux, to get free access to drivers etc. Most of the Be community was not interested, and I cannot remember if they even got started..?

- (YellowTab - Some company had access to BeOS sources and started releasing and somewhat updating the OS on a commercial basis - but don't think they actually had the rights to do that....)

Airtable is fantastic for so many things, I only wish there was a cheaper "personal" plan with more records, for a couple of bucks / month.

I can't really justify $10 / month for "just for fun" personal projects, and the 1200 records / base is too limited for many ideas (and also 5000 records for $10/month is on the low side as well, even if putting it as a company expense)

Yes, I know, they got to eat and everything, and maybe cost vs income is not feasible for personal accounts.

Exactly same problem for me.

Someone mentioned in some other thread there is some airlines looking into having seats that when reclining, instead of pushing the backrest into the space behind you, your seat slides forward, and thereby tilting the backrest.

But this was met with great protests from others who think crushing long legged people´s knees is a god given right.

"If you don't want your knees crushed, you should have paid extra for one of the four seats with more leg room" "they were already taken? Tough luck"

Thinkpads are almost the System76 equivalent for OpenBSD? As long as you stay away from nvidia graphics, that is...

Maybe Filemaker / Claris

https://www.filemaker.com

RMS should sue the publications for defamation and loss of income. Hopefully someone can help him with this if needed.

Could you do it on a 30 minute commute, or is a (most of the time very peaceful) bus trip too much external distractions?

Have you used vanilla Emacs + Evil? Any thoughts on that combination?

Well, Emacs may not have changed my view of computing, but it definitely changed how I _use_ computers...

Yes, many ordinary users never get past the folders-on-desktop organizational level for their files...

Exactly. How much I like the idea of a truly open phone platform there are some obstacles:

- Decent hardware available at competitive price

-- While I could make do with some degraded performance for a truly open phone concept, most people would not, especially if price point is similar to, or higher, than established closed platform brands

- Must have apps available - needed for wide acceptance

-- My personal examples of must have apps:

-- BankID (Swedish e-id, needed for banks, taxes, government sites, payments)

-- Swish - Swedish app for personal micro transactions

-- Public transportation apps (tickets/timetable)

-- Bank application

-- Signal

Without these apps, a open platform phone would be next to useless to me. And I am a big proponent of open platforms.

And looking at how reluctant BankID were to even support older version android phones, I am not optimistic to them adding a completely new platform to support.

I know people who were forced to upgrade from "old" phones because BankID no longer supported their Android version, and phones would not get newer Android version.

In my experience O365 office web applications are no competition even for Libre/OpenOffice. Has that changed lately?

In Swedish:

Lax = Salmon

Grava = preparing raw salmon (or other fish/meat) by keeping it in a mixture of salt, sugar and spices.

Salt and sugar keeps the fish from spoling, lactic acid bacteria preserves the fish. Back in the days this was done by digging a hole in the ground, cover the fish with spruce/fresh leaves and salt. Then lleaving it lying there for a couple of days. This also gives the origin of the word "grava" which in this context would bean "bury".

My take is Emacs is the best integrated text processing environment available. But I am not sure it would beat VI/VIM as an text editor.

I don't think most Emacs users could match a good VIM user in text editing speed, but then Emacs can do many other tasks that are hard to replicate in VIM, while being a more than good enough editor.

It is not so much which editor is better, rather what are the user's expectations.

To me this is obvious and has been probably been said a 1000 times before, but sometimes when reading threads about text editors, you would not think so.

Does Orgzly work with Syncthing out of the box now? Last time I tried Orgzly it only used Dropbox for sync, which is what made me drop it at that time.

Hmm, wonder what would happen if USPS lose your application? Sure, you have the tracking number, but no way to prove what was sent.

Just send it again when you realize it was lost?

Is there no way back, where upstart companies can make hit games and become mega stars, like iD in the 90s?

Is the resources required to make a hit PC game too high today for an upstart to succeed, or is it just big gaming houses controlling the distribution channels?

Yes, you would need to adjust for that. Might be the explanation for why the guys from the future shows up in spaceships. I guess it would be dangerous calculating slightly wrong and instead end up inside earth or inside a building's wall.

Better to appear some distance out into space and then fly the last few hundred miles to earth.

But even Python requires installing the dev environment etc. I can see the use for this, for throwing people with no experience into "coding right away".

I heard somewhere SGI put a big chunk of iron/lead inside the case to make them heavier and add to the expensive impression when handling the machines.

Not sure if that was the case, or if it is just an urban legend?

And adding to the magic, SGI machines were a something most people would never get their hands on. A maxed out graphics workstation today is still just an "ordinary PC" but more expensive. A (big) upgrade, but not something with magic dust.

Yes, I recently got a Kobo Aura One. At 7.8" and high resolution screen it is not much different from reading a largish pocket book. Also being able to read in the dark without disturbing the wife, thanks to screen back light is also a big plus.

But even with bigger screen and higher resolution than most e-ink readers, it is still a bit small to read most magazines comfortably, which was a bit of a disappointment to me.

I read some ebooks on my phone before, but as you say, it does not compare. You have constant distractions and reading on a phone / tablet outside in daylight is no fun.

Mainly, I'm just pissed that they axed EPUB, but still do iBook and Kindle. That is implicitly supporting closed, proprietary formats (or embraced and extended formats) rather than open standards. We have already been there once.

Yes, exactly, that was my reason for asking to begin with.

But I can buy into their explanation that amazon/iapples are much more downloaded as the number of devices are probably a couple of magnitudes larger.

But still sad a project with "open" in it's name mainly seem to support proprietary formats.

Hmm, any technical reason for providing only PDF and no epub format?