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Interesting read. Bill Gates is trying to do good, but it has negative side-effects.

Bill Gates doesn't have a good image with everyone: https://www.kmfms.com/ Microsoft was investigated by the DOJ for anti-trust, an abusive monopoly that bundled software with Wi…

It is still in beta test and they have a free emulator and the ROM is open source. It is a Commodore 65 clone, which is like a cross between an Amiga and Commodore 64. It has Amiga graphics and sound.…

Looks like they haven't supported it since 2005: https://www.adobe.com/products/atmlight.html But still allow downloads for legacy systems.…

When I apply I am overqualified for the job. I have too much experience and they don't want to pay me for it. I don't think there is a lack of developers, I think they want Superman at Jimmy…

This is why we need a right to backup our CDs and DVDs. At least iTunes rips CDs into music files.

I had an Amiga 1000 in a staircase closet in my parent's basement. It just needed a new floppy drive and keyboard. My brothers cleaned up and found it broken and threw it away.

Caps and batteries on Amiga motherboards go bad and need replacement and cleaning up. There are replacement Amiga motherboard projects to keep Amigas alive just transplant chips from a dead Amiga moth…

I converted dBase, Lotus 123, Clipper programs to MS-Access and Visual BASIC. Knowing legacy languages help with upgrading and upsizing to newer technologies. These are not taught in college or hacker…

https://www.khanacademy.org/math

Success is getting over a series of failures by learning from them. Everyone fails, even Apple had the Apple III, Apple Lisa, and Apple Newton, yet from those failures they made the Apple IIgs, Apple …

I remember the Apple ][ CP/M-80 cards. Those were cool. Now there is CP/M for MacOS.

What about homeless people who don't have cell phones and use Gmail accounts? Maybe they don't have a backup email?

Reminds me of this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/719719.The_Garbage_Chron... Where they dump Earth's garbage on another planet, that has life forms based on…

Flippers buy from Goodwill and sell items on eBay and Amazon. That is why the prices are so high on jeans and other stuff that might be designer clothing. Buying electronic stuff is kind of iffy. I bo…

I let my son play Doom with The Simpsons mod so it wasn't that scary. He was Homer Simpson fighting clones of his neighbors. I also taught him how to build PCs and use Windows 98 at that time.

It sounds good, the other one is AROS based on the M68K Amigas: https://aros.sourceforge.io/ they have an Intel version and one that runs on M68K Amigas with a replacement Kickstart R…

It sounds like Apple is getting into competitive behavior with the smaller companies. Much like Microsoft did in the 1990s.

There was a hack to install a BASH Shell on it because it didn't come with a Linux Shell. Only problem was their GUI updater would find a problem with newer libraries and hang and show a picture …

This is an IDE right here: https://www.monodevelop.com/

Yeah but it gives the iPad Pro the advantage of running Mac 68K apps. PowerMacs used to have that option and without it they would never have taken off.

Can't you need at least $2 trillion for basic income in the USA. Plant forests after buying up land. Make robots that clean up the plastic in the ocean. Make hydro plants to replace coal burning …

Nice but I think DOSBOX is better https://www.dosbox.com/ It does so much more than graphics, just limited on printing to devices. EMU2 reminds me of the Amiga Transformer PC Emulator…

With the right malware, your CPU rents itself as part of a Botnet. I remember doing the Seti at Home and Folding at Home projects as a screen saver that used CPU time to solve problems. That was for c…

WordTsar is an open source WordStar http://wordtsar.ca/

NFTs are a good idea, but if the file for the NFT can be deleted then people are ripped off of their money. Nothing lasts forever on the Internet when you need the room. Unless it goes to the Internet…

https://github.com/limetext/lime It looks like the source code isn't available to the public yet? Is it still in beta test?…

I used to use Borland's Brief to edit large files. But it is commercial. There is a free version in beta here https://sourceforge.net/projects/grief/ Grief. It pages th…

SpongeBob was originally for adults. But adults who grew up on Nickelodeon cartoons. Kids found it funny but don't always get the jokes because they are adult humor. They had to dumb it down for …