As a Brit, I was surprised to see the UK as a destination of choice.

The current Labour government here often seems to be criticised for being ideological and not pragmatic. In particular, they seem to prefer policies that tax "the rich" and businesses in one way or another, yet not large, relatively wealthy groups like pensioners or the homeowners who have lucked out and now live in a million-plus property that most younger people will never be able to afford.

There's also quite a lot of red tape for businesses here, maybe not compared to some of our neighbours in Europe, but certainly compared to places like the US and probably parts of Asia too.

Obviously some of this is politics and maybe the policies are not so surprising coming from a party that in theory represents the working class. However, it is surprising that entrepreneurs would be attracted to a culture like this at a time when we expect to have this government for another four years still.

Nah, there are ethernet cards for vintage macs, and you can use netatalk to provide them with file services. This makes a lot more sense today than messing with antique SCSI drives. You also don't have to get very vintage to read those floppies, there are lots of machines out there which will do it.

Wow, they use a cathode and an anode? HIGH TECH SHIT.

Seriously though, I am hoping they are successful. I want batteries to continue falling rapidly in price so I root for any improvements anywhere. Competition is good. I also still want to see NCM banned for multiple reasons, and having more alternate and safer options makes that more likely.

It would require magic for you to say something intelligent.

Only in early days of the C64 were cartridges or even cassettes the dominant storage media. The disk drive got cheaper over time, and they brought out a second and cheaper model of it as well which was less shit. In fact, people who weren't poor (which doesn't describe me, mind) commonly had two 1541s, because you could program them to do sector copies, and copy basically anything.

I forget what the software was because I didn't have a C64 or floppy drives, but I knew plenty of people who had both. (I had an Apple ][+, then a used IBM PC 5150, and then I got an Amiga 500 which was succeeded by several other Amigas up to a 3000, and then I got a 386 and ran Linux and now here we are with me still running Linux.)

You're a stupid fucking clown. There's maybe a double handful of Democrats who believe in those things. Look at the way the rest of them vote, they are sellouts every day and twice on Fridays. Also, maybe you didn't notice because you have your head so far up your own asshole you're a human klein bottle, but the Democrats are currently leading Jack and Shit.

Moving the goalposts.

You claimed that most software was distributed on cartridge.

Defend that claim or retract it, don't shift the discussion to some alternate irrelevant shit.

I knew lots of people with C64s, and all of them had floppy drives. I was the only one with a C= without one (my father got me a C= 16 from somewhere, who fucking knows, but no floppy or in fact any software or a tape interface or anything... thanks dad) and then I got an Amiga.

Well, UK has declared war on Germany on 1939-09-03, then done nothing for a year until Germany was done with Poland and France, then started attacking them for real. Thus, a "preemptive" attack wouldn't be a big deal...

It has. For data center construction, server manufacturing, NVidia, OpenAI and the other purveyors of LLMs.

It's an equity pump and dump scheme. Microsoft is even providing a tool to make sure people adopt Copilot. Instead of just tracking developers' productivity. Got to shame those hesitant users into keeping the AI product pipeline full.

It's not that long ago that I found myself with a box of 8" floppy discs from a legacy product and no way to read them. Yes, the software on them was long obsolete. But I would have liked to be able to preserve a bit of company heritage.

The product in question (Glenayre GL-3000) had been updated in the interim to use 3.5" floppies, though with a bespoke format. I figured out how to use Linux and creative parameters to dd to write disc images. We packaged this as a bootable CD for customers to write their own disc images. After a sharp drop in floppy quality around 2005 I discussed other storage options with my boss (e.g. USB) but the business case just wasn't there.

...laura

"It did come with a cartridge slot, and that was the primary way software was distributed for the C64. NOT on disks."

[citation needed]

Under this administration, depicting the Confederate flag as negative is problematic. Not because of Cheeto Benito himself, he no doubt thinks most of them are gap toothed losers. Even though his grandfather and probably his father were in the KKK he doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would spend his time burning crosses, he'd rather fuck over all black people than terrorize or murder just a few.

Violence begetting violence is an ongoing theme of the series.

You play a white guy that kills white guys all the time in most games. Because it's a black guy killing white guys that's racist? You sound racist.

An assassin can be someone who can hide, or someone who wouldn't be suspected, same as any other secret agent.

The people running things aren't the people who adopted Communist and or socialist ideals, so it's hard to figure out what you think you're getting at there.