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Managers might want solutions, but to get to them you have to go through HR, which wants checkboxes ticked. That's two entirely different screening processes.

Borland Quattro.

Yep. Boston Dynamics has been dependent on military contracts since their founding in 1992. The "no more military weapons" statement seems to have been after they were acquired by …

We had two broadcast TV channels where we lived when I was growing up in the 1970s. My Dad signed up for cable TV. It ran 24/7 instead of 6AM-to-midnight (yes, broadcast TV went of…

Sage Accounting is prone to various connectivity gollywobbles between the server and workstations. The first troubleshooting recommendation is to turn off IPv6. About 75% of that t…

I don't own anything with a fingerprint scanner. My phone has a camera, but I don't use a phone for internet.

If the AI does spelling and grammar fixups, I'll root for the AI. When I was in corporate IT, I got way too much internal email that looked like it had been pecked out by an autist…

Back in the (early 1960s?) Isaac Asimov wrote a book on how to do arithmetic calculations in your head. He pointed out that someone who developed that skill could solve problems fa…

I'm another who never stopped. I still use matchbox-sized MP3 players, replacing them when they die. Wifi is sparse in my area, and even cellular signals are unreliable (and expens…

I understand the "everybody does it that way" aspect of the cloud, but the old way of subscribing to a dynamic DNS and hosting locally still works just fine and you have full contr…

A friend of mine is getting ready to retire after 30-odd years in IT. He has already tooled up and trained for his retirement profession: farrier; the guy who makes and installs ho…

The pool of tech jobs in my area was sparse, but the local employers were fully on board with the big-city "use them for a while and toss them out" system. So when times were good …

I'm mostly retired now, and my paying work involves maintenance on proprietary inventory and billing software written in a 1960s language in a dialect that became unsupported in th…

My development is on Linux. Some of my work has to run on Windows as well; VirtualBox has several Windows VMs, a ReactOS VM, and Wine for testing. I've never had to deal with the B…

> Just speak clearly. --- I finally got (very expensive) hearing aids, and made several trips back to the audiologist to have them tuned. Then I wound up not wearing them, because …

Please don't inflict Gnome upon them.

If it was local - implanted, or on my body, it might be a useful tool with the correct training. If it was networked, it would need to have much tighter security than the current i…

Sounds like Jeff Duntmann's "jiminy", which he wrote about in PC Techniques magazine back in 1992. A matchbox-sized general purpose computer and life log, infrared connections to p…

Windows Phone's UI is still with us, from Windows 8 onwards. Everything on 8, 10, and 11 is optimized for a touch interface on a small screen, which is ridiculous on a modern deskt…

DESQview/X sucked the wind out of DESQview's sails. It was, on paper, a massive upgrade. I had been running DESQview for years, with a dial-up BBS in the background. But you couldn…

I'm booting and running Haiku on my Thinkpad. It's a from-scratch workalike of BeOS, and able to run Be software. Though, frankly, Be software is totally 1990s, so a lot of Linux s…

Wine predates ReactOS. It was basically a FOSS duplicate of Sun's WABI. I wrote a bunch of software in Borland Delphi, which ran in Windows, Wine, and ReactOS with no problems. Wel…

As a Linux user, I hated Flash with a passion. It mostly didn't work despite several Linux implementations. About the time they sorted all the bugs out, it went away. Good riddance…

I tried several "information management" and "knowlege management" programs over the years, but none of them worked the way I wanted. My original method was a directory full of pla…

LLMs remind me of the children's game "Telephone."