also, slashdot doesn't use markdown or allow comment edits. I remember that now. https://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=16837&cid=1942503

hah, indeed ...happened to idly google search some now ancient obscure powerpc things for a comment on another social media site ...and a first page result was [my own /. comment](https://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=16837&cid=1942503) from early 1999...

Yeah, I don't think it works that way. Plenty of people with low UIDs are complete assholes.

The irish constitution has some dangerous weasel-wording in it around that area. Lately it's been taken that european/international human rights law trumps more problematic aspects of the constitution, and it's important to remember that basically no sane irish person takes mere human law entirely seriously in the first place, but it just isn't particularly wonderful as constitutions go. May still better than still being ruled by the British I guess (I mean just look at Jacqui Smith...)...

For example, a private citizen can't register a personal domain unless they're a company or publicly known celebrity like a politician

That changed a while ago, though controls are a bit stricter than in other places. You have to register your real name (businesses are supposed to register their registered irish business names) and present some form of vaguely plausible ID. And it's relatively expensive. I have mine registered, much harder to lose to some squatter - even if I miss a payment, no-one else is going to be able to register it very easily (esp. given my real name is rather long) at least while they keep the rules in place. However I use my com/net/org domains day-to-day for business.

Have you tried MilkyTracker? I quite like it, though I'm essentially talentless at present when it comes to composition, I just mess around.

Amiga OctaMED OctaMED introduced 8-amiga-sound-channel (IIRC it already supported N midi channels) support on the Amiga at least, sometimes with extension .med, sometimes with .mod - the amiga didn't use file extensions for file typing as such, so you saw both around. The amiga had 4 channels in hardware, usually used two on each stereo side, but software multiplexing techniques could yield more software channels, used for standalone mods and some games.

After 8, things just went to N tracks using more and more software-side multiplexing.

Unicomp keyboards are worth every penny, though. You don't have to believe me, but I'm ridiculously happy with mine at the price I paid several years ago (which I don't recall exactly, but which included thousands of miles of international shipping charges seeing as I'm in Ireland...)

I'm not sure what car analogy is appropriate, but it's like a disposable party cup vs. a solid metal beer stein. You can drink beer from both, of course, but...

People nowadays seem to expect and accept their cheap keyboards simply "wearing out". I've even temporarily repaired cheap keyboards with foil where the conductive part of the shitty rubber pad has simply worn away with use. However I expect my unicomp would probably last my remaining lifetime - only problem I anticipate is slowly changing interface standards and keyboard layouts rather than mechanical failure.

AROS is an open source operating system largely source-compatible with AmigaOS 3.x APIs and runs on modern PCs. It's not "finished", and shares AmigaOS weaknesses as well as strengths, but is usable (helped by recompiles of a load of amiga stuff from the Aminet (still around!) I guess) :

http://aros.sourceforge.net/

Grab a liveCD from Icaros desktop and give it a go.

http://vmwaros.blogspot.com/

I wouldn't really want to use a system lacking full memory protection in the modern era (though some effort at retrofitting memory protection is underway IIRC), but it does work.