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Funny enough, I'm only in my early 30s and grew up with the Commodore 64. It was the basement computer that I could do whatever I wanted to, whereas the Windows computer (initially 3.1 and got upgraded all the way to 98) computer upstairs had to be shared and had more supervision. So I enjoyed writing a lot of code and trying things. I managed to have quite a collection of software and accessories just by asking around who still had stuff in the late 90s and early 00s in their basement for an 80s computer, and more did than you would expect.

But you can also use MATE still to this day, or even Cinnamon.

Granted, there are good podcasts, but I've switched my listening time (mostly commute for in office once a week) to audiobooks. I find books to be much more consistently high quality content, regardless of the source. There are bad books, but the quality tends to be higher than podcasts. I mostly get audiobooks through my library, but I also sometimes listen through Spotify.

I haven't used Windows in years. I remember needing to use WordPad to even open a Unix line ending file, even though it was counter-intuitive.

FreeBSD 15 is planning to ship with an option in the default installer to setup a KDE Plasma desktop!

Dillo works surprisingly well. I've used it on older systems running new operating systems. It does a web browser should do best: read web pages.

I'm from a blue class family in a non-affluent area and I could already read going into Kindergarten because my mom spent a lot of time reading with me before I got to school. This was 25+ years ago.

What does this have to do with running FreeBSD software on Windows?

Reminds me of when Cisco bought Flip Video

I will admit I'm more like to use "--" and not bother converting it if not done automatically on quick forum posts. You can find examples in my post history. But I come across them all the time in written works.

Honestly em-dashes are simpler to use than other punctuation and sometimes come in handy when it's not clear what to use.

Many devices and word processors will convert "--" into an em-dash. On longer posts, I often write in a word processor and then copy-paste to a text field.

On Android and iOS, you press and hold the "-" to get the "–" and "—" options.

On Mac, use opt + hyphen for "–" and opt + shift + hyphen for "—" (similar to other special characters).

On Linux you can enable the compose key and use it similar to MacOS (Compose+---).

It's not rocket science.

Meanwhile Microsoft removed WordPad in the latest version of Windows 11. It was a great simple word processor and text editor. It even supported docx and odt files.

I loved the N800 and was happy to see it make an appearance in that presentation. In fact I still have one in my desk drawer beside me I turn on from time-to-time. Yes it was a bit cumbersome, but I could do more with that device than any other handheld I have ever had and carried it with me for years. I wish the N900 and other smartphones on Maemo had caught on.