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My first PC was a 286 with a SVGA.

I was a kid from a small town in '80s Poland (the poorest part of it). The local secondary school had a whole Elwro-equipped classroom. Many of my friends had 8-bit computers: the first one I encountered in 1986 was a ZX Spectrum, owned by my friend whose father worked in UK. I recall visiting classmates between 1986-89 and playing for hours on their Spectrums, C64s and Ataris (800XL, 65XE). The local community centre had Atari 520ST (or maybe two?) and it was available for the local kids to play with. I estimate that in '89 my town of 5k had at least 20 computers.

Pegasus arrived in 1991 but many of the 8-bit owners already upgraded to Amigas, which were really common in my area.

I am in the same situation. Sometimes I wonder if I should have responded to a bit higher offer sent by someone who possibly was a super wealthy Saudi kid (I am talking racing-lambos-in-the-desert-rich kind).

I have a short instagram handle.

In 2016 someone figured out how to successfully repeatedly reset the password without my knowledge (via support maybe?). But since my e-mail was not compromised they didn't manage to change the password (or I was quick enough to set it again before they executed some second step of their scheme). I upgraded the security measures to 2FA and some insanely long password and it ceased.

Since November 2020 I am subjected to a brute-force attack - someone is trying to log in and I am getting an email notification about it each time. In the beginning it was once every five (!) minutes, later every 15 minutes. It went like this for over a year, now it seems to be throttled with emails arriving once every few days.

I am suprised that for such a long time Instagram didn't implement anything to counter such activities.

But luckily, no pizzas yet.

Unit 3 was just behind a wall, but 1 and 2 were quite far away (300-500m).

They all had multiple serious incidents before and after the Chernobyl Disaster (1982 - partial core meltdown at #1, 1984 - incidents at #3 and #4, 1991 - fire at the turbine hall of #2). This was the most unsafe nuclear power plant in the whole USSR and the operators were in grave danger all the time.

I made the same mistake reading the title and felt a rare emotional mix of being enraged and puzzled at the same time.

From Wikipedia:

Mycle Schneider (pronounce Michael, /ˈmaɪkəl/) (born 1959 in Cologne)[1] is a Paris-based nuclear energy consultant and anti-nuclear activist.[2][3]

On the other hand it would be nice to count in that the iron ore gains value when it's moved from inside the mine to the port.

I didn't say it should, I just summarized what Opera did.

They licensed the browser for devices like set-top boxes and similar devices. There was also money coming from Google (for using it as a default search engine). I guess they had also some business model built around Opera Mini and relations with mobile providers.

Some EU member states (Hungary, Poland) are very much against handing over any diplomatic power to the High Representative. Hungarian government is basically acting as a Putin proxy here and Polish ruling party feeds on constant conflict.