One of the benefits of staying on 3.0 or 3.1 is the bugs have mostly been figured out and worked around by this point, 15-20 years later.

I'm scared of upgrading to the 3.2.x line because what new bugs are being introduced versus those which are being fixed? How much attention is being paid to legacy software compatibility (those programs which will never be updated ever again)? What if those programs had workarounds which are no longer necessary...?

Some of the well-known bugs in 3.1 would be nice to finally be rid of though, assuming they are fixed in 3.2.x

I just picked up my first-ever Blu-ray player at a Salvation Army thrift store a few weeks ago... a very happy find!

Oh, thanks that's helpful. Ironically, the no-paywall link was still paywall-y with NoScript enabled.

I was poorly trying to make a joke about libraries having copies of newspapers for people to read ... but I was far from successful. Hmm.

For renters, rent should be pre-tax, not post-tax.

Let's create an income tax exemption or credit for renters.

On condos, mortgage + HOA fees can easily exceed rent prices for a similar unit.

Hmm.

Can I go to the Internet Archive to check out a copy of this WSJ issue which is behind a paywall?

Hmm

Well, crap. I recently overheard a candidate for a director-level position casually s**t-talking remote work to our CEO while on-site for an interview, clearly aware of the CEO's preference. (Our CEO reportedly doesn't like remote work.) This gave our CEO a platform to complain to this candidate about remote work and its perceived disadvantages for a few moments, and internally I barfed a little.

First they come at you for "wokeness," then they come at you for "remote work." What will it be next? Hairstyles? Apparel? Choice of tech stack?

Sure, though Jack does probably own some cabinses in some woodses now, and probably does live off-grid now, sometimes, and started the Bluesky project to be the open-source-Twitter-as-a-protocol ... so, I mean, in some ways he might be doing it ...

Yeah. Like: "They didn't give us full, unrestricted API access fast enough. So we want out."

I can imagine inside Twitter:

someone1: hey, can you set up an API access account for Musk's team
someone2: hey, can you file a jira ticket for that request please? at go/apijiraticket
someone1: ah, ok
someone1: ok, in your queue
someone2: ok, thanks. we'll get to it next sprint
someone1: when does your next sprint start?
someone2: in about a week and a half

(two weeks go by)

[someone2 closes jira ticket]
someone1: hey thanks
someone2: np

(a few days go by)
someone1: hey, musk's team is saying their API access is rate limited
someone2: sure. all new accounts are rate-limited
someone1: ergh please open it up
someone2: ok can you please file a jira ticket at go/apiteamjiraticket
someone1: :eyeroll: ok. when do you think you can get on this?
someone2: our next sprint starts in a few days
someone1: why is an operational team using two week sprints in an agile model
someone2: talk to our managers

(a few days go by)
someone1: hey musk's team says they're only getting a batch of results at a time
someone2: yeah, the API is paged. have they ever used an API before?
someone1: i don't like your attitude

(a day goes by)
hr-rep-1: hello i'd like to talk to you
someone2: ah ok great

Ideally there would be many sides and many aisles.

This.

In 1992 I got a 486SX/25 with 4 megs of RAM and a 170 mb hard drive as my first home computer. Did Pentiums even exist in 1992?

I personally went from that 486SX/25 to a second-hand Amiga 2000 in 1996 ... the Amiga 2000 was a 68000 running at 7 MHz, but (in answer to your question) I COULD MULTITASK -- I could format floppies while listening to MODs while connected to a BBS (downloading over ZModem, say) while making graphics in Deluxe Paint.

I could *not* do that on my 486. And I tried. I used DESQview for multitasking DOS (text only), I used Windows 3.x, I used Windows 95, and I bought OS/2 Warp -- OS/2 Warp was a real dog on my 4 mb of RAM, always swapping ... no way I could do all those things at the same time which I could do with the Amiga ... at a fraction of the CPU horsepower...

Usually on the A2000 (like the A3000, cry) it's the barrel-cell battery that dies first, and takes out multiple other components with it...

Yeah. It's extra false because the most popular & widespread Atari ST systems didn't have a "SCSI" port as mentioned by OP, but rather a port called "ACSI", which then required an adapter (like ICD "The Link") to convert to SCSI. The TT030, Falcon, and maybe Mega STe had built-in SCSI ports, but these were niche compared to the ST, STf, STfm, Mega ST, etc.

OP also doesn't take into account various generations of these platforms (Amiga 1000 [1985, no native HDD interface] vs 4000T [1994, onboard IDE and SCSI-II] for instance).

Love me some Slashdot Amiga talk. Bring it on.

What if the Titanic had implemented this before hitting the iceberg?

(ship hits iceberg, something clearly wrong)
ship's-person 1: "i'm afraid to report this ship is sinking"
ship's-person 2: "i'm tired of your negativity" (gives bad rating to ship's-person 1)
(ship's-person 2 gets out a secret life boat)
ship's-person 1: "hey, let me on"
ship's-person 2: "i don't want that kind of negativity on this lifeboat" (gives another bad rating to ship's person 1 for demanding tone)