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The link is paywalled and the site requires me a subscription to keep reading TFA. This happens even after using the link with the Wayback Machine.

TL;DR version so I can save you the mental expense of sifting through several paragraph of AI slop: If LA repairs a whole street, they also need to add wheelchair ramps because of …

I have both CDE and NsCDE installed on my system (Slackware64-current). Both run well and, surprisingly, good ol' CDE behaves better in some respects. You can download the original…

A C-64 was my second computer. The first one, which didn't last too much, was a Timex-Sinclair 1000 (a clone of Sinclair ZX81). The Commodore gave a lasting impact for various reas…

Yeah, I thought that. Too bad, you just hit one of the (very few) disadvantages of immutable systems.

or perhaps, some Plasma bug was fixed in Plasma 6.7x. Who knows... EDIT: Now I see you installed it via flatpak. That is also a source of endless inconsistencies and instabilities.…

There are some very important wars missing. For example, I see nothing about Spain's Civil War (1936-1939)

No issues here on Linux, using Firefox 140.12.0esr under Slackware and Plasma 6.7.2 / Wayland

Still today, the posts below the title are all gibberish.

Slackware-current upgraded xsnow to the latest version in June 20th but applied a patch from ALT Linux that removed the protestware bits just because of this reason. I support this…

Nice to see Knoppix featured here. This is basically the distro that pioneered the "Live CD" Linux where you can play with the full system without the need to commit to a full inst…

That was not the question. The point is, elvis is still around. This is relevant because is a required, essential part (not at all optional) for an actively developed Linux distrib…

> I had to do "write code on paper" stuff as part of french engineering school entrance exams. Interesting. This reminds me of COBOL and FORTRAN "code sheets" that were used back i…

I was born in 1970. My teenage years were in the 1980s, in coincidence with the emergence of the home computer. I had a Timex-Sinclair 1000, then a C64, then a C128. One of my main…

Thank you, AI. /s

> you can only install it via the AUR or nixpkgs on linux I just said that it comes already installed (because is a required, essential part of the system) in Slackware. Slackware …

Is still around, at least for some values of "around". Elvis, at its latest release (2.2.0) is a required part of Slackware, part of the A (essential system) package series. I have…

More than the Blackberry... I'd say, the N900 form factor, complete with camera lens lid.

No, no and no. Last year I paid money to upgrade my laptop's RAM from 16 to 32 GB. I didn't pay it so apps could just be more bloated without offering any significant benefit. Deve…

An IBM 1130 system was installed in my country (Paraguay), at the National Computing Center (CNC) of the National University of Asunción (UNA), around 1969-1970. At the time it was…

> I never bought into the recent vinyl hype. This. I'm 55. My teenage years were in the 1980s, where CDs started to appear but vinyl was still mainstream. I remember Dad having a s…

To be honest, I'm not "anti-AI", that is, anti-LLM/agents, etc., at all. LLMs and their ilk are just a tool. You can use it, or not. And you can use it well, or not. That's it. The…

My perspective is that of an user, not a developer. I use Deno since yt-dlp required a JS engine and recommended it. So while I don't use it for development, I have to build it for…

That's if you need to customize headings. I usually can keep using the standard ones, so that's not my case, and I suspect this also applies to a lot of people.

Not necessarily my experience. I wrote (and I am writing) several academic documents with it. There are its quirks, of course, but with good classes such as memoir, I don't feel th…