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That sadly matches the conclusion I reached after years of following that processor arch online. It just doesn't seem anyone is willing to do the hard work of maintaining something different. Other than Apple and that has its own issues...

This is the actual answer but too many people are invested in their own narratives to see it.

When you visit someone's country you are not just a guest, you are the model for everyone else who comes from where you do and who looks like you do. The assumption is that how you behave is how others from where you came from will behave. In an age where social media exposes everyone all the time, bad behavior gets seen and shown to others and conclusions drawn based on that behavior.

But rather than admit that this is a thing which exists, others just want to press tired arguments about race and racism. Which even if true, who cares? It's their country. They're allowed to welcome or decline anyone they wish. How arrogant are we really to think that we can dictate who and what others allow in their homes?

Amazing.

Please report back and let us know how that goes. Curious to see how well it works.

I wish someone with a Book 8088 or a Pocket 386 would give this a go and report back.

As someone who used Firefox (then Phoenix 0.2) I keep wondering where the binaries are...

They’re not trying to fool God, they’re trying to fool you into going along with it. They don’t care what God thinks and may not even believe in Him at all, but unless they can convince you of the loophole they’re stuck with the rules themselves.

I tried for years to get this operating system to run on my hardware. Last year I succeeded.

Only...there was no software. The system ran beautifully. But I had no web browser that was supported. All the software seemed to be ports from Linux and didn't seem to take advantage of Haiku's advantages.

I had a good speedy operating system that booted almost immediately to the desktop. But nothing to do when I got there.

BeOS back when I tried it in the V5.0 days had software written for it. There weren't multiple options for everything but there was variety. There was usefulness in the radio broadcasting software, the video editors that worked even on my POS box back in 1998/99. When the PE was released I'd hoped that would result in even more software becoming available. But no, it was shut down not too long after that. (I'll skip the whole YellowTab fraud saga.)

The situation seems even worse these days. It's been almost thirty years. Time to let go.

I'm thinking...give me a minute....

>I turn around, and a guy is getting a handjob. I motion to my wife that we need to move a few seats over.

To get a better view, right?

Please don’t mistake description for advocacy.

I think the word you're missing is fatigue.

The average tech literate person keep seeing their data breached over and over again. Not because THEY did anything wrong, but because these Corpos can't help themselves. No matter how well the tech literate person secures their privacy it has become clear that some Corpo will eventually release everything in an "accident" that causes their efforts to become meaningless.

After a while it's only human for fatigue to build up. You can't stop your information from getting out there. And once it's out there it's out there forever.

Meanwhile every Corpo out there in tech is deliberately creating ways to track you and extract your personal information. Taking steps to secure your information ironically just makes you stand out more and narrows the pool you're in to make it easier to find you and your information. And again you're always just one "bug" from having it all be for nothing.

I still take some steps to secure my privacy, I'm not out there shouting my social security information or real name. But that's habit. I no longer believe that privacy exists.

To the extent we ever had it in the past was simply the insurmountable restrictions on tracking and pooling the information into some kind of organization and easy lookup. Now that it is easier and easier to build profiles on mass numbers of people and to organize those and rank them the illusion is gone. Privacy is dead. Murdered.

And people are tired of pretending otherwise.

Without Linux support, unlikely.

>I think you severely underestimate how powerful familiarity is in anchoring non-tech users to particular platforms.

What familiarity? Microsoft has changed the look and feel of the OS to the point that it no longer retains that familiarity from version to version.

Don’t forget about the BeOS being the Batmobile!

As do people. Which ends up weakening copyright even further as it becomes a law everyone ignores, on the level of speeding or jaywalking. The same knock-on effects as Prohibition, we become a nation of scofflaws.

People don't know copyright law. They think they do and are alright with the construct they made up in their heads. But they don't actually know what it says and does and means, otherwise they'd hate it much more.