top of the heap to third world status in one generation

[TychoMonolyth]

Can't believe I put up with a windows machine for damned near a week before I grabbed the vise grips and extracted the windows debris. Every day was a 100 needless accommodations. No more !

Now it does what, and when I ask to, and don't even to sugar coat it. Every time I go though this, I curse
the years that I spent with the most worthless of operating systems- did have a buddy that hooked me up with some cut down versions that had appeal, which I do keep on the shelf.

I've been doing that for years. I know what almost everything does so I know what I can strip. And it's significant. But you can do other stuff. A good antivirus is one. A bigger hard drive isn't, but a SSD (solid state drive) will make a world of difference. The biggest issue is the internet. Not visiting "bad" websites and being savvy enough to not click on email links, is the best thing you can do.

The complaints we hear about computers are the same complaints we used to hear about cars when they fist came out. "Clutch, breaks, gas, gears, spark..... All I want to do is drive my car!"

It's getting better, but it's slow going. It'll be another 30 years before you can just "use it" without worrying about everything else.

 

[White Beard]

I was lucky: I went from middle-scale proprietary OSs to Unix rather rapidly and I’m the happier for it. Not to say I never worked in a DOS/windows environment, I just never got trapped in it by owning one. When I left the industry 20 years ago, I had choice of Windows, Apple, and Unix; given that no one would pay me to support my own machine, I went with Apple, and I haven’t been sorry. I know they come in for a lot of abuse, that’s nothing new, but I’ve never been dissatisfied with product or service, and I’ve never found more reason to distrust THEM than any other major tech platform/company.

And I should add: considering how far the industry has come since ‘77 when I first went “online”, I don’t think a 30-year learning curve will be necessary.

 

[Gry]

The Quest to Break America’s Most Mysterious Code—and Find $60 Million in Buried Treasure

A set of 200-year-old ciphers may hold the location of millions of dollars’ worth of gold, silver, and jewels buried in Virginia. The quest to break them has attracted the military, computer scientists, and conspiracy theorists. All have failed.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/...in-buried-treasure?utm_source=pocket-newtabxx

 

[Zeez]

I had betas and prerelease of the first windows gui, built my own machines for years, ran a bbs with slowest modems. Win.ini, Sys.ini, yeah yeah.... Remember the ol dial up handshake?

Gave up about ten years ago and went to Apple. Never looked back.

 

[TychoMonolyth]

I had betas and prerelease of the first windows gui, built my own machines for years, ran a bbs with slowest modems. Win.ini, Sys.ini, yeah yeah.... Remember the ol dial up handshake?

Gave up about ten years ago and went to Apple. Never looked back.

Maximus. 12 lines.
Ansi.sys baby. Lol

 

[Gry]

The Not-So-Simple Life

The farm-to-table frenzy has thousands of urbanites trading in their desks for the idylls of agriculture. But one eager young couple learns the hard way that organic utopia is easier dreamed than achieved.

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-not-so-simple-life?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[Gry]

First rig. Lisa II with a 14.4 modem

 

[Gry]

Personal details of nearly 200 million US citizens exposed

Sensitive personal details relating to almost 200 million US citizens have been accidentally exposed by a marketing firm contracted by the Republican National Committee.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40331215

 

[Gry]

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[Zeez]

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[TychoMonolyth]

Personal details of nearly 200 million US citizens exposed

Sensitive personal details relating to almost 200 million US citizens have been accidentally exposed by a marketing firm contracted by the Republican National Committee.
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40331215

It's time for a law making the creation of lists of people and associated attributes illegal and punishable by death. Let companies and political organizations do without. No more public manipulations.

 

[armedoldhippy]

It's time for a law making the creation of lists of people and associated attributes illegal and punishable by death. Let companies and political organizations do without. No more public manipulations.

agree absolutely. i still have never read any acceptable rationale for asking what ethnic group you belong to on the census either. if i survive until the next census, i am going to write down "human" under the question "race?"

 

[Gry]

A Long Talk With Anthony Fauci’s Boss About the Pandemic, Vaccines, and Faith

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/202...uch-better-soon.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab
https://nymag.com/author/jebediah-reed/http://twitter.com/jebediahreedhttp://twitter.com/jebediahreed

 

[Gry]

Trump Believes That He Is Losing Because He Hasn’t Been Racist Enough

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/trump-is-losing-2020-polls-racism-black-lives-matter.html


Talk about one hell of a headline, Selling the rag.

 

[Gry]

When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents?

The absence of audio recording technology makes “when” a tough question to answer. But there are some theories as to “why.”

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/...heir-british-accents?utm_source=pocket-newtab

 

[Gry]

Hope everyone has a good one. Watermelon and cannabis work well together,

Just got to listen to a neat tribute to Johnny Otis.

 

[Gry]

Forecasts of Total Deaths

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/forecasting-us.html

 

[Gry]

U.S. Coronavirus Cases Are Rising Sharply, but Deaths Are Still Down


This seemingly counterintuitive trend might not last, experts said. But the nation can still learn from the decline.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/health/coronavirus-mortality-testing.html

 

[armedoldhippy]

U.S. Coronavirus Cases Are Rising Sharply, but Deaths Are Still Down


This seemingly counterintuitive trend might not last, experts said. But the nation can still learn from the decline.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/health/coronavirus-mortality-testing.html

it very well may have a lower immediate death rate as we learn more about it. that does not lessen my concern over the damage it allegedly does even when you survive- IE blood system, lungs, blood clotting. what will be the long-term effects from this shit?

 

[Gry]

Hope not to find out.