What kind of grief? I use Apple's email client to access Gmail with practically zero issues.

I have a grandfathered GSuite account hosting my own domain for free so it is difficult to find a compelling reason to switch to something else. Privacy issues? Sure - but you have to assume any email that is not encrypted can be read by someone somewhere. I gave up trying to persuade correspondents to use email encryption a long time ago.

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I am very late to the Clive Barker party but I read Weaveworld in 2021 and thought it was great. An unusual fantasy tale centred on Liverpool. I was surprised to find Barker a better writer than Stephen King.

Ditto. There was a perfectly cracked version of Windows 2000 easily available. The best OS Microsoft ever released.

You mean those crazy conspiracy theorists claiming that the new vaccines increase the risk of blood clotting? Yeah, this will prove them wrong.

I moved to Japan and switched to playing Shogi. There is a friendly club near my house so I get to play OTB twice a week. The club members have been playing forever so I mostly get slaughtered.

Draws are very rare in Shogi.

Unhappy with the Shogi analysis GUIs on macOS I wrote my own. Available free for Windows, macOS and Linux: https://www.chadfield.com/p/sh....

I plan to test it on FreeBSD when I finish the OS install...

They should get off our lawn.

Non-valuable tokens. The perfect thing to trade your gambling tokens for.

How much is your privacy worth?

Every time a new Bitcoin is mined a panda dies.

All this effort just to sell advertising. What a world.

If Apple is so privacy focussed why does iOS even have a "random advertising identifier" in the first place?

The XP icons were designed to match the garish XP UI. They didn't look good with Classic Desktop. Windows 2000 was a more consistent experience.

Windows 2000 was the peak for me. The NT kernel and professional, boring looking UI. The ugliness of XP was one of the things that kept driving me to give Linux a try.

After years of cryptocurrency hype they have finally found something to convince sceptics that it really does matter, it really is the future: using it to buy things that don't exist and have no value.