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Games? Embedded? FPGA? UI frameworks? DSP or Signal processing?

I am curious to learn too about this. I have managed to say at Windows 10 with strictly local accounts only.

I had a tool, which extracted all FILE_ID.DIZ files from the archives (zip, rar, arj, lha, ...) in the directory and created DESCRIPT.ION files from those DIZ contents for those archives. Using 4DOS was joy when going through archives.

If you played Doom, you were already in Hell.

Huh! Which system you were using? Notepad in Windows or Linux?

This made me chuckle:

> Please don't be tempted to use fancy graphic or ANSI sequences in the FILE_ID.DIZ file, as most BBS software will not allow this, and will render your FILE_ID.DIZ file useless.

Everyone was doing exactly that and even I did something like +hundred artsy file_id.diz headers for the scene groups or my own groups. When "releases" started to be from 5 to 15 disks (packages), many sysops started to clearing the art away from the file lists and just leaving an oneliner of the title visible, like:

   The Name of The Release       Disk: [03/12]

Interesting too that as niche as they are today, they are still being made. The last ones I did was in 2015.

> It surprises me how much of my Spotify library is no longer available. There’s at least a few dozen songs in my Spotify library that have been taken off the platform. It shows up in the list greyed out. A lot of good songs too.

This probably has more to do with publishers and licensing contracts than artists pulling their music off from platforms. Sometimes even bigger artists' albums disappear when publisher is sold or goes out from the business. Or the licensing contract's period runs out. As sad it is, many artists don't own the rights to their music, and if the rights owner is defunct, then there are missing albums or even discographies.

I have tried, a long time ago, LineageOS on Samsung Galaxy S3 and S4. The both of the ports were so buggy, that by those experiences I could not trust the maintainers to be capable of securing the system. It may have been a false assumption, but I had to think stability/bugs and security must correlate at some levels.

What is the easiest way to get comparable smartphone experience with some actual control over your privacy?

I have to assume no-one in the team saw Pulp Fiction (1994) when you ended up picking up the name "Zed"...?

I was quite surprised to learn this has nothing to do with DDG. Interesting how DDG seem to have taken the meaning of "duck" in (my) mind.