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I think it is pretty impressive if you consider ChromeOS, with all of Google's resources behind it, is at 1.47%.

Ha I just booted Haiku on my desktop yesterday and it ran surprisingly well. Kind of took me back to 2001. If Firefox is stable on it I actually probably could switch from Windows …

Agree. I could afford "better" but the Neo suits my needs perfectly and I don't like expensive laptops that are prone to damage and theft. Dollar for dollar it is the best computer…

No idea, but at least Microsoft has some semblance of support where you can talk to a person.

I (reluctantly) gave up on the Mac several years ago. Being on a PC might initially seem clunky and unrefined but it is actually very freeing to be able to choose my manufacturer, …

Whenever I want to experience the web as it used to be I’ll run a search on wiby.me or browse neocities.org

Check out neocities.org

Weird. I figured at the time it was due to COVID related supply chain issues, but I just checked and they still don't stock them locally.

I paid a little more and waited a couple weeks to receive a Delta single handle faucet for my kitchen back in 2020, rather than just buying what was available on the shelf at Lowe'…

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I agree with your overall point but I'm starting to regularly see older M series MacBooks on sale for around 600 or 700 dollars brand new. Maybe they are using the strategy of sell…

Ah not sure the driving himself part was the best idea but I’m glad to hear the LLM helped and your dad is ok!

The job market is scary. I can afford a better house right now but am scared shitless I won’t be able to keep my income up. So we stay in our small old house for now, maybe forever…

I thought they were just a web portal and email service. It is amazing they still offered ISP services this long. They had some pretty unscrupulous business practices back in the d…

MacOS is unusable to me now. I had to switch back to Windows. There is something about the iOS aesthetic on MacOS that looks like they just smeared Vaseline all over everything and…

I don't know much about Gambas but it seems it is Linux only whereas Xojo is cross platform.

Have you checked out Xojo? It is a VB6-like language with a similar development UI. There are desktop and web versions. https://documentation.xojo.com/getting_started/tutorials/des…

Have you checked out RISC OS already?

Xojo Web aims to do exactly what you describe. https://xojo.com/products/web.php I haven't really used it - I'm just a hobbyist coder who enjoys the VB6 style development of the de…

My mother recently passed away after a long battle with dementia. Apparently when she would forget an account existed or she could not log in she would create another account. She …

Thank you for this! I pressed Ctrl+Shift+S in Firefox just to see if it would work and it has the same functionality.

Trump would be the 47th president.

I liked CityDesk so much I wrote a clone of it in Xojo (then Realbasic) about 15 years ago. It has wysiwyg, templates, uses sqlite instead of a MS Access DB. Sometimes I think abou…

I have a similar goal (1 laptop) but with a concession to have one monitor, probably with a built in USB C hub, as a docking station just for ergonomics sake. Eventually it might b…

Xojo is basically VB6's spiritual successor. https://xojo.com/