That's weird, that's where I got it and I'm still running it successfully now.

... for the Microsoft publicist: Are you a 'bot?

Beware of Geeks bearing gifts.

Well, it worked for Apple.

My balls will break the Microsoft vice.

Price tracker CamelCamelCamel offers browser extensions which allow you to get charts showing price history. Go to an Amazon page and the icon appears in the address bar, click it and the chart pops up. (This is how the Firefox extension works, anyway.) We ordered one of those Solar "Generator" units (I hate it when people or companies call them that, they are not that, but anyway) from Amazon during their sale because it actually was cheaper.

A village is the best way to raise a child. People should learn that they are part of interconnected communities as they grow up. Ideally people would be directly involved instead of their needing to be some kind of government assistance stepping in, but we've become increasingly disconnected from our neighbors and that allows echo chambers to form and fester.

What causes you to imagine I never clicked the link? My response was about the quick google search snark. I also did a google search, that's how I found the links I posted, but it sure didn't show that one in my results - and I looked at the top 30 or so.

Anyway, bummer. What kind of fucking wingnut believes in AGW and then lights a forest fire?

Indeed, and exactly what thinking people expect from a PR flack for a corporation which produced and distributed literally the most insidious spyware of all time.

Are you somehow still unaware that Google delivers different search results to different people for the same searches?

I don't see "plenty of details" about his political affiliation, only some evidence that he was anti-religious. But I've known some conservatives who were that, so it proves nothing.

https://www.latimes.com/califo...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/1...

Got anything to support your claims?

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.)