I count "app suggestions in the start menu" as ad. I know that this can be turned off, but after some updates the suggestions are again there.

...after switching and using linux. The win11 subscription nagging, ads everywhere, reconfiguring win11 after updates, because settings get reverted, very annoying. And i have the impression that it will get worse over time.

Win 11 feels like adware. I really don't like it.

Well, I am old and to my shame I have not heard of linear motors before seeing this article.

But it works, when I got my first mobile phone entire documents could be sent via email an a pc and then somebody got the idea to ask for (at the time quite a lot) money to send 120 characters via sms.

Why stop at paying to rent software to WRITE or EDIT a document? Pay more to SAVE it, or PRINT it, LOL.

I was also shocked as how antiqued the games nowadays look as compared to my memory of them. On the one side I should leave my memories intact, but on the other side, maybe I should play a round of "impossible mission" (think it was called like this).

I tried to make a funny post, but yes, my post is not good to make people go out and buy the latest, greatest and most expensive stuff, I guess.

These 640k games often had a nice story or some clever logic behind them, but it could also be just me, getting older.

...I am gaming with 640k. Should be enough for everybody.

Good luck copying a pdf to your home folder on an ipad!

...on your notebook, for protection against stealing. Won't get stolen, unless somebody needs a fancy doorstop.

...will be the last stretch of ddr4.

I think the big elefant in the room are ping times.

...good and not so expensive photogrammetry scanners are incomming