windows 11 was a disaster for 2025, IMHO.

this has been solved in alternate reality for c64. some parts of town are dangerous, you may get mugged, others are safe.

25%

as history has proceeded these past 10 years, I am pretty confident american voters will have forgotten all about in 2028, assuming they still get to vote by then. Right now, I don't have faith in them to remember the purpose when they reach for the toilet paper roll,once they grab it :-/

you created .. The Registry?!

The Register? [1]

1. https://www.theregister.com/

These headlines really sound like the glorious The Register of Old, before the suits showed up and murdered it.

above all, I believe he cared about getting the next draft ready for each week / before deadline, and then about keeping the cliffhanger suspense high, to keep his fish on their hooks.

That is awesome. I'm currently down a similar rabbit hole, having found Eightyone zx81 emulator, and z88dk c compiler dev kit for Z80. Trying to make interesting programs that run acceptably fast/slow on those old computers, has a nostalgic haiku feel to it, that i really miss with modern computers. Suddenly you start to care about how you loop and assign in your C program, because doing it the 'wrong' way makes the compiler emit inefficient assembly; it's 'roguelike programming', in the sense that all your choices suddenly have consequences.

if you rearrange the letters, you get the Linos OS.

mandatory mention: It is tradition to refer to this argument as 'for hysterical raisins', when something kept being done in a certain way, only because of some initial irrational arbitrary choice, is mandated with this argument.

"hysterical porpoises" always makes me smile, and it's the benemalapropism I go for.