I set up family and friends on GNU/LINUX Ubuntu and LibreOffice just fine. Windows 10 EOS ends in 2025 and there are a lot of PCs that can't run Windows 11 so they are thinking of going to Ubuntu.

I spent $1500 out of my savings to get an I9 PowerSpec PC from Microcenter that has Windows 11 Pro preinstalled. It runs fast with an M2 SSD 1T hard drive. My old Windows 10 PC will become an Ubuntu PC.

There was an ACE standard to use Portable OS/2 on MIPS devices and use MIPS expansion cards in PCs to turn them into RISC workstations. All it needed was ARC BIOS and could run 286 DOS binaries in emulation. https://virtuallyfun.com/2021/... Has the NT 4.0 version of MIPS before Microsoft abandoned it.

According to Eric S. Rayman of "The History of Unix" IBM and Commodore traded technology. IBM got the GUI Workbench which became Presentation Manager, and Commodore got the REXX language to develop apps on. I tried adding this to Wikipedia's article on OS/2 and Amiga but Pagemisters quickly reverted it even if I cited that book, because Rayman is non-notable they claim.

... instead?

That works.

Evidence of no evidence is evidence of being full of shit.

But while you're busy making shit up, here's a list of studies proving you're full of shit.

Covering topics such as:
- Guns are not used millions of times each year in self-defense
- Most purported self-defense gun uses are gun uses in escalating arguments, and are both socially undesirable and illegal
- Firearms are used far more often to intimidate than in self-defense
- Guns in the home are used more often to intimidate intimates than to thwart crime
- Adolescents are far more likely to be threatened with a gun than to use one in self-defense
- Criminals who are shot are typically the victims of crime
- Few criminals are shot by decent law-abiding citizens
- Self-defense gun use is rare and not more effective at preventing injury than other protective actions

Also, if your argument that something is "between 2 and 10 times as often" as something else related - that's not statistics, that's pulling numbers out of your ass.

Not to mention that using murder instruments 10 times (or two times) "for defense" means that in at least half of the cases "defenders" are actually the ones committing the crime by trying to kill an unarmed person.
While gun nuts are up to 10 times more likely to use guns to attack people and threaten and attempt murder than "criminals".

You are literally arguing that people with guns are pulling guns on people 10 TIMES MORE THAN CRIMINALS DO.
I.e. That they are paranoid lunatics whose crimes go unreported. Probably cause they tend to use guns to threaten their wives and kids.

Which IS all supported by the points... well... basically all on the list above.

Droughts due to climate crisis we're in makes nuclear, being just another steam engine, unreliable, inefficient and too expensive.
And that's when it is already heavily subsidized by the government - as it needs to be in order to be profitable.
Which the companies running the existing reactors know very well - cause they're the same ones running coal and gas plants... and the renewables.

Only one of their energy sources allows them to get something for free and sell it to their customer at a cost - and it's not nuclear.
Nuclear is a dead end for commercial energy production.

A great example of uselessness of game theory in real life situations though.

For one, it equates the choices - long-term and short-term, conservative and progressive, moral and ethical, economic and social...
E.g. There wasn't a WW3 with China OR Soviet Union spurred on by a myth of genetic superiority and bloodlines built-into the leftist ideology. Right-wing ideology will always boil down to such a myth.

For two, it assumes a whole bunch of other things, not just the choices being essentially identical.
From a 100% voter turn-out of perfectly informed and rational spherical voters to complete absence of propaganda and the influence of money on campaigning.
FFS Haven't we learned that people would rather poison themselves with horse deworming paste than listen to reason?

But most importantly - it presumes that the most favorable outcome is some centrist position between the extremes, which will magically be free of influence from either extreme, while ignoring the reality of the "wild card" of fascism.
I.e. That it is a bullshit ideology completely fine with lying and cheating in order to seize the power.

Thus while in theory such a system would result in "the moderate that everyone liked" - in reality everyone HATES such a moderate (Hint: Both Al Gore and Hillary Clinton would have been that choice - both were hated for made up reasons such as "being a robot" and "not baking cookies".) - and you end up with a far right candidate who is willing to lie and cheat to win.

Wikipedia tells me he went public in 1971... so I'm guessing he's some kind of a LGBT icon or something.

Office Space taught me that robbing the place then burning the whole thing down to the last stapler is a far more profitable solution.
Only thing lacking is having the company owner burning with it but I guess men's reach must sometimes exceed the grasp, or what's a heaven for, mmmk?

January 1, 2024 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1928 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1923!

Hint: Most of it is literally polyester dust. You know, that stuff produced by the bees.
You know, for kids. Only there we call it "minky fabric".
To stop mothers and other Karens (male, female and otherwise) from complaining about things they clearly know neither jack nor shit about.

Also, we've been making plastics for over a hundred years now. And contrary to popular bullshit - its been falling apart ever since.
Meanwhile, since the introduction of plastics, world population quintupled to over 8 billion and decades were added to life expectancy.
Have you noticed how lately politicians and celebrities (i.e. court and the jesters) keep clocking it in around 90+ to 100 years when they check out?
These are people who grew up in a world where running water, indoor plumbing and IOL were new and incredible technological marvels.
Were the plastics deadly or even harmful to humans, no one would have survived beyond the seventies. The 1970s.

Something tells me we'll continue NOT seeing people dying of microplastics.

There are two methods mentioned on Slashdot right now.
Time will if implementation of one or the other across the system shows better results in shutting down surveillance of minors.

He probably just remembered this invention from his native country.

Nothing is competing with it as it has ZERO chance of implementation or scaling.

Its only role is as feedstock for making fuel out of atmospheric CO2. It will never be used as fuel directly.
Storage alone would basically be like an attempt to start producing airplanes out of lead as fuel tanks would have to be pressurized, thicker and heavier.
While entire fleets would need replacing every few years due to hydrogen-induced cracking.
Hydrogen is a boondoggle.

And they didn't have personhood until relatively recently.
When they've gotten it by traditional means - they stole it.

How about BBBY?

Maximizing, prioritizing or even valuing shareholder value is a myth.
You're not a customer. You're a chump.

You murdered that poor metaphor. That's why your argument makes no sense.

That, and your understanding of the issue at hand.
No purchase is necessary when the secret police, your employer, your colleague, your spouse, family member or SomeRandomGuyTM simply puts a microphone or camera somewhere near you and records you 24/7 - with AI used to filter, analyze and summarize all that data into six lines or less.
I propose we call such AI Richelieu.

Here's a flip side. What's stopping anyone doing that same thing - but to a bank or a major business?