Nope

Where I lived before in Sweden, it was the municipal power company that built a fiber network, since they already had all the right-of-way and know-how/staff for pulling cables. The power company itself only maintained the physical network, and opened it up to third party ISPs to run the actual internet service, allowing to could start an ISP using the network and any customer could choose any ISP. ISPs would compete on price, support and value-adds like IPTV and telephony.

Douglas Adams.

That was the first time it really hit home to me how much it hurts to lose real talent from this world.

I think Apple has the best sandbox UX. By default sandboxed apps have access to zero of your files. It can’t even see they exist. It’s only granted access to any file/directory the user manually selects through a system UI - opening through file type associations, the open/save dialogs, or drag & drop. This means that access is given seamlessly, there aren’t any prompts, and the user doesn’t even realize there’s a sandbox. If the program wants to manage a project, just have the user select the folder and all the sub-contents are also granted.

I learned coding at age 7-8 by messing around with the scripts of the built-in demo stacks in HyperCard. It was close enough to English that you didn’t need to study syntax but could easily learn from example

BTW the Brother scare about them adding DRM that was in the news a while back turned out to be false, it was just a random guy on Reddit with a bad third-party cartridge, and Brother replied that they do not block third-party cartridges.

That said, I’m not a huge fan of their weird PPD installer on Linux that installs some random, undocumented crap

I picked up a used 2018 Fujitsu office PC with an i5-7500 for $60 (from a physical recycle shop, with a 14 day warranty) and it draws 15W idle. Way better value than a Pi (once you’ve added case, cooling, PSU etc) for running home server stuff.

A Pi still kills for “Arduino plus plus” use cases where you need the size, GPIO or can optimize the heck out of power usage on a battery.

Gentoo, sometime in the early 00’s

This new driver is written in Rust, so it changes nothing about the debate

The old internet, where the worst crime you could do was hot-link an image, and the worst punishment there was was having it replaced with goatse

Trump can’t change the law, he can only pinky swear that he won’t enforce it.

Would you trust Trump’s promise to the tune of $5000/download fines?

As recent as the 90’s it also used to be left-wing to oppose immigration, since it was seen as a way for the right to devalue labor and lower wages.

A lot has changed.

I came over with everyone else in the big exodus wave from Reddit when they killed third party apps.

I didn’t even use a third party app so it didn’t affect me, but as an old-school Internet user I believe in federated networks over centralized services and it seemed like the one opportunity to finally get critical mass.