I really liked Castle of the Winds. I think it might have been a win16s API app?

The Linux community is quite capable of designing a decent desktop environment. But as far as I can tell the developers working on it aren't capable of recognizing a decent desktop. Occasionalou they get close to a good desktop, only to throw it all away in a redesign that is demonstrably worse.
We Linux users suspect we don't deserve a good desktop, and for the most part have accepted our lot. It's not nearly as extreme as the psychological conditioning that a Windows user must have to accept the level of abuse from MSFT that they do.

Is Windows the right OS for any job? Seems like a way to install ransomware with extra steps.

All of them apparently?

For parents the nice thing about a restaurant is that there is probably not children screeching there versus guaranteed to be at home.

Is it a noun? A verb?

The source material exists in sufficient number for Rec.2020 to be interesting to movie buffs. And some older panels were not capable of displaying Rec.709, and had significant banding or patterns depending on their soft clipping algorithm. So upgrading one of those to at least a full gamut panel even at HDTV 1080p spec is going to be a pretty nice upgrade and not terribly expensive.

(I say this having implemented soft clipping for a consumer product)

I work as petty bourgeoisie. So I'm already outside that system. But I thank you for your concern and advice.

Fry: So, you're telling me they broadcast commercials into people's dreams? But how is that possible?
Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth: It's very simple. The ad gets into your brain just like this liquid gets into this egg. Although in reality it's not liquid, but gamma radiation.
Fry: That's awful. It's like brainwashing.
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?
Fry: Well, sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio, and in magazines, and movies, and at ball games, and on buses, and milk cartons, and T-shirts, and bananas, and written on the sky... But not in dreams.

Agreed. I'd take improved colorspace gamut, better black levels, and higher contrast over higher resolution.

I think the built-in speakers on a massive 32" CRT cabinet sounded better than the ultra thin bezel-free TVs of today.

Every employee is a person wiling to sell their labor for less than a competent employer can make from it. The purpose of hiring is to take a collection of people, put them to a task, and pay them a portion of what you make off it. This is called your profit.

Every layoff is a company admitting that they can't figure how to make money under capitalism. Most likely it is an overweight management structure that can't be supported by thinner margins during an economic downturn. But the decision makers aren't going to cut their own jobs, despite not producing anything of value themselves.

This problem doesn't exist if you don't grant every system application excessive access to your computer. A part of a program that makes a preview image of a file doesn't need Internet access for example. But here we are, an operating system designed by people who apparently didn't bother to design a secure architecture despite 4 decades of papers on this very subject.

They're doing this for your own good. Have you said thank you once?

Medicare Telehealth is cancelled for most patients during the shutdown, which has my disabled mother scrambling to find new in-person appointments. It's rather difficult for her to travel, and the paratransit service makes her wait in the cold weather for pickups (she has COPD, edema, reoccurring kidney infection)

But hey, as long as incompetent morons fill the seats in D.C. and the oligarchy is happy we can tell everyone that is struggling how bigly the numbers are of our AI bubble economy.