In fact, recreating the computing experience of the Commodore 64 (and BBC Micro as they are a British foundation) was one of the specific purposes of the Raspberry Pi.

Because there aren’t any developers in charge any more. At places like MS and Google now promotions are given to people who make a big splash. Fixing a bug doesn’t get attention.

I think you are giving people too much credit. Lots of people have a budget they can spend on appliances (like a credit line) and they get the best (most expensive) one they can get on that budget. Others will do the opposite and get the cheapest but only people like you find on Lemmy (Linux users for instance) in my experience will make a choice in the middle based on feature set.

The number of people who think IT and CS are interchangeable is too damn high.

Fun fact: 7 was the last version MS produced under the injunction from the late 90s that prevented them from bundling required services with the OS. They actually had MS accounts (then called .NET Passports) ready to track activation and for login on XP but had to make them optional.

Well yeah, the Obama phone thing was actually trying to help people.

Heat is so easily retained in space that when the Shuttle launched they only had 4 hours to open the cargo doors to expose the radiators or the cabin and electronics would overheat and they would have to scrub the mission. They never had to scrub for that reason though.

AFAIK you also have to work up to the driver positions. Off the street you work the sorting machines and shit.

sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade -y

=

sudo dnf update -y

For most systems. If you can get apt you can get any of them.

The hyper loop was stolen from a European design from the 90s. It was even featured on an episode of Modern Marvels back then.

The number of times I have received an un-proofread two sentence email is too damn high.

How have these things not encountered out-of-service stop lights before? This seems like the kind of thing you test before you let them around people.

Newegg is still a thing, you just need to check the “Sold by Newegg” filter.

Caldera had a GUI installer in 1998…

lol, in this case ‘update’ would require physically replacing the ROM chip on the motherboard. Sometimes they were nice enough to make it a socketed chip.

I have a 486 with a mouse driven BIOS…

Edit: Here is a screenshot I found online that looks like the one I have (note the 1994 copyright at the top):

You can absolutely play Call of Duty on Linux… and Call of Duty 2!!!

I guess we will just have to agree to disagree on that one. Personally, I think you are giving the Xbox far too much credit.

You clearly missed out on a whole era of shit like Pocket Tanks and Zuma.

When I think of the rise of indie gaming I think about the early 2000s when people could put their game on their own website and things like Steam were coming out. The Xbox doesn’t even cross my mind. Consoles were very much not the realm of indie games until like the Wii U.