PS/2 = "Personal System for Two?"

Sounds romantic!

This leads me to an observation that magic, AI and 1,000 people in India are all indistinguishable.

Isn't the 8-inch floppy write-protect system the opposite of 5 1/4" - you take the tape *off* to write protect them, right?

I'm the unfortunate recipient of many "DocuSign requests" as part of my job. Between duplicate messages, constant nagging to create an account and weird senders that aren't in my address book, I find the product to be unnecessarily complex and overwrought for what I can easily accomplish with Preview.app and the signature tool on a PDF.

How this company manages to employ (for the moment) over 7000 people is beyond me. I only found this out when I read about the layoffs. I figured it might be a tiny little startup with 100 people max, but seven THOUSAND. Bonkers.

This is the obvious evolution of this seminal app.

https://www.engadget.com/2017-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

That movie looks AWESOME. And the tagline is fantastic: "They'll dam you to hell!"

I'm an unfortunate Mac user of OneDrive on Mac. It has a very irritating issue that whenever it updates itself (which it does silently) it somehow removes itself from the login items list. Which means on the next reboot it's not running - a situation you don't notice until you realize that your files aren't being backed up.

So you re-add it to the login items, make sure it's running and once again forget about it. Which sets it up to remove itself from the login items list again. Rinse and repeat.

Awful product. And I hate it even more because you can't turn on Autosave in Office without saving to one of its folders.

Except that the opposite is also true. If you have a great global roaming package and want to move your eSIM to a new phone while traveling - you cannot. You must be on your home network to activate an eSIM.

I've had this exact issue happen. It's a nuisance, but I put up with it because I have a non-US iPhone that still has a SIM slot so I could at least use one of my plans while overseas. US users would be hosed though.

Cheese?

From https://www.sec.gov/news/press... :

In one instance, the Binance chief compliance officer messaged a colleague that, âoe[w]e are operating as a fking unlicensed securities exchange in the USA bro.â

That's not going to go well for them.

If I had mod points I'd give you some right now. Brilliant.

However it does bring up the question, what would constitute a AAA rated billionaire?

I posted above about my A2000 rig that I've been playing with and I have to disagree that the Amiga would have been a good fit for business.

My modern experience has shown that it would have been too unreliable for business use. So many issues: guru meditations that take the whole system down, no protected memory, and no process management. Sure, you can do multitasking but what good is it if by running more processes you're just increasing the risk that something corrupts the whole system? I'd argue that very few people really used the multitasking of the Amiga. Most would boot into a game or launch a single application from Workbench.

The other big issue would have been the screen resolution. The Amiga is happiest displaying modes that are 200 pixels high which is not enough to do word processing or spreadsheets. Going to 400 means flickery interlaced modes which are painful to look at. And the planar color graphics mean that any simple scrolling has weird color artifacts. Games obviously bypass those limitations because they can control what's on the screen and optimize using the custom chips, but productivity apps don't look nearly as good as EGA or VGA graphics adaptors could show on the PC.

Again, this is my modern experience with it. Maybe people were more tolerant of crashes and weird screenmodes back in the day.

For fun, I've been building the "ultimate" Amiga 2000 as if I were back in 1990 and had unlimited money at the time. I now have an Amiga with A2630 68030, 120 megs of RAM, Ethernet, and a hard drive. Plus an A2286 bridge board itself kitted out with a Sound Blaster, hard drive and 1 meg VGA card.

The result has surprised me - a lot. The 286 never got a lot of love at the time but in this configuration, it's not bad at all. Games are snappy and the sound is pretty good. I've compared Ultima IV between the two environments, even having it run simultaneously on both, and I'd be tempted to pick the PC version to play. Obviously there are games that are far better on the Amiga, especially ones that do a lot of pixel pushing, but I'm surprised at how well games run on the 286.

The other thing that surprised me is how awful AmigaDOS is, especially having used *NIX so much since I had my 2000 back in 1990. Simple things like wildcards and even a "move" command are difficult. The parameter syntax is frequently not consistent between commands and there are many bugs. Say what you want about DOS, but it is at least consistent. And there's no concept of task management - you can't kill a process safely. Workbench is very basic and looks like it was never really finished... and the general look is very poor with icon aspect ratios all over the place.

This exercise has really reminded me that the Amiga was, for its time, great hardware but let down badly by its software. And even the hardware had serious limitations. The inability of the custom chips to address anything outside of 1 (or rarely, 2) megs of RAM should have been lambasted by the "640K is enough for anyone" crowd at the time but the Amiga faithful neglected to mention this major issue.

All in all, it's been a fun project and I've gained a lot of perspective that I didn't have at the time.

Does Delta Airlines count as a "professional group"?

I have a paid US Apple Music account. I'm currently outside the US. All other Apple services work fine but this one shows me a recorded video (!) which says "this program is currently unavailable" in white text on black background, in multiple languages.

Loading up my trusty VPN makes it work, but it's annoying to be geo-locked on only one of Apple's services.