...than bothering them.

I love my HP-41 calculator from 1983.

Heh - I'm in Norway :-) Creating some psytrance (the actual psytrance as of 2010+) now and then (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelic_trance#Progressive)

...but could do better with more variation, more spice. Would like to see he do psytrance.

Nethack goes mainstream.

Negative PR repercussions sometimes doesn't enter the equation as a manager waves off something that is not strictly in his scope that day.

I was lucky to get hooked, then. Started using Linux in 1999, tried out various *BSDs and a bunch of Linux distros. Have been tweaking my setup ever since. And I'm extremely happy with it (https://isene.me/2016/08/17/my-computer-setup/). The problem I'm running into is that my setup is reaching perfection - and that makes me sad, precisely because I so love the tweaking. I'm constantly searching for new stuff to tinker with or improve. I'm 50 now and way above that 80k threshold you mention. But as I said, I am lucky to get really hooked 18 years ago.

What on Earth are you talking about? A decade long recession? I certainly haven't noticed any. Re-joining the common market? Norway has been a member of EFTA since 1960. There has been no re-joining of anything here. Get your facts straight. And what ignorants modded the parent up? And "Insightful"? Seriously now.

All coordinated acts of terror happens because we allow private communication to happen. If we simply made it impossible for anyone to have any type of private communication, we could intercept Paris, 9/11... you name it. Don't blame crypto. Blame private communication.

Would the arguments in favor of weapons from e.g. the NRA (https://home.nra.org/) also apply in favor of letting NK have weapons on par with their potential enemies?

He's not going to do even a fraction of what he says. His goal is to get elected.

Ouch, that hurt. An HP-32E is one of 5 calculators missing from my collection. But I do have 4 New In Box HP-33Cs and one NIB HP-34C :-) I used to have the HPP-37E with the lowest known serial number - until my collection of 90 calculators was burned to the ground in 2008. Luckily my collection was featured on Norwegian national TV with a follow-up only a few months later where I was standing in the ruins of that office building being interviewed. That sparked the start of my second collection. Only that HP-41 survived the fire (it served as my alarm clock at home),

Being an active collector and avid user of old HP calculators, I can beat that 18 year mark with ease and comfort. My HP-41 from 1983 is in almost daily use. My HP-27 from 1976 is still going strong just like an HP-9815 from the same year and my HP-67 from '77. My HP-35 from 1972 is working just fine. As are some 70+ other old HP calcs.

I installed Linux in 1999 and never looked back. Ok, I've tried various BSDs, but always came back to Linux. Been through a dozen distros, settled on Ubuntu. I am not a developer (just some hobby-dev'ing) or a sysadmin. Linux does the job perfectly for me - I have been running various businesses, have lots of clients (99% running Windows) - and I close to never experience any issues - on the desktop or with compatibilities. Running i3-wm (no KDE/GTK desktop), qutebrowser, LibreOffice when I have to, mutt, weechat... and write just about everything in VIM. I am jolly happy. Linux gives me exactly what I want.

"Providing a satisfying experience to a bunch of tinkerers is a very different thing from providing a satisfying experience to the multitude of non-thinkerers who buy smartphones." I kept reading "thinkers" all the way through...