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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, w…

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-…

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 mi…

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 i…

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 "…

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 s…

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 degra…

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 …

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…

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 up…

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 a…