Thanks, talking about making music. I reluctantly abandoned Logic Pro, now starting out with Reaper.

I need email, Web LibreOffice, GIMP and a programming editor (I like Geany). I currently use Linux Mint, I'm 71 although pretty geeky. It's probably not as pretty as Windows, Mac or Chromebook but does everything I want. Only exception is music, Midi etc. but that's improving.

I run nearly every day, because it's such a buzz. I'll be 72 in the autumn and have a few old-person health problems too. I race where there are age categories for my age too, but don't take it terribly seriously. If you want to start I recommend Couch to 5k: https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/e... which has a lot of people in the UK.

This kind of thing was well-known when I started messing with computers in the mid to late 1960s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The most famous and most fun example is the Philips Economics Computer: https://collection.sciencemuse... in the Science Museum in London

Typo, it's https://nangs.org/ not a 'com' domain.

I scraped this off my Twitter feed and transcribed them. Many appear to be offline already. DDOS with hulk or something will probably help them.

https://www.gazprom.ru/
https://lukoil.ru/
https://magnit.ru/
https://www.nornickel.com/
https://www.tatneft.run/
https://www.evraz.com/ru
https://nmlk.com/
https://www.sibur.ru/
https://www.severstal.com/
https://www.metalloinvest.com/
https://nangs.com/
https://rmk-group.ru/ru/
https://www.tmk-group.ru/
https://ya.ru/
https://www.polymetalinternati...
https://www.uralkali.com/ru/
https://www.eurosib.ru/
https://omk.ru/ https://www.sberbank.ru/
https://www.vtb.ru/ https://www.gazprombank.ru/
https://www.gosuslug.ru/
https://www.mos.ru/uslugi/
http://kremlin.ru/
http://government.ru/
https://mil.ru/
https://www.surgutneftegas.ru/

Yes, I worked briefly in the UK for a company that Amazon took over. Shouty 'managers' using mad 'metrics'. I didn't renew the contract.

And they could replace many of the 'managers' I've worked for, over my 40 year IT career.

I'm 70 years old, spent 40 years in tech and still enjoy it. My house is full of Raspberry P, bigger computers and obsolete but enjoyable tech. So I'm not much of a Luddite. But I just want a 'phone', you know 'talk to people' and 'send texts', not be data mined, get push advertising, tell random folks where I am, FB, Insta etc. etc.

I regard the ownership of of OS by Google and Apple as a serious potential problem too, means that they can get anything they 'want' without depending on 'apps' (which I hate and which break the web model).

So this year, in my old and grumpy persona, I may well go back to a feature phone since open OS phones are still pretty expensive and rare. I'm seeing a little spike in UK feature phone use currently too, they're simpler for non-tech oldies who will want (like me) a bigger screen for Zoom and the web and therefore do those activities from a desktop.

In spite of all the FUD and criticism, I've used a Linux desktop without any significant problem since 2007. I've kept a Windows system because of certain bits of music software (and 'music' hasn't been that great on Linux, but steadily improving) but I hope to junk that by the end of this year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... back to the future, eh my fine friends? I

Me neither. Ryanair has some and serves two of the routes I need to go to SW France. So I'll be looking elsewhere. This is not a 737, lots of changes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... just has a 737 sticker on it, so it could be waved through the tests.

https://www.hive.co.uk//WhatsH... has been around for about a decade and does a very similar thing. It looks like the 'deal' for bookshops is better, interesting to see whether there's any difference in royalties. Royalties are general bad at Amazon, that's apart from the workplace practices and the allergy to local taxation.

Not being able to get together in person, particularly internationally, is a pure negative

So we need to fly around the place for face-to-face meetings? I don't think so.Since the 1980s, at the start of teleconference (where everyone seemed like they were underwater), I've worked in projects that effectively used remote meetings. Last one, a couple of years ago, I flew from London into Austria, twice in a six month project. That was a 'nice to have' so that we could eat a little good Viennese food, mainly.

I use it a lot. I have no other 'social media' than Twitter.