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Hm altered carbon season 1 was pretty good?

the books are still on my to read list.

It was not like lot's of very talented Amiga devs didn't try their very best to create a Wolfenstein/Doom clone for their platform, but iirc the bitplane setup used by Amiga gfx, which enabled lot's of other cool features did not perform well with the opereations needed for "3D" games.

Then with Quake, the 3rd party 3D graphics cards market took off, and even if there were cards for the Amigas too, market economics made them unviable.

And even though I usually appreciate Datagubbe's writings, this time I think his take is incorrect. At least in my circles Wolfenstein / Doom and ultimately Quake was the final nails in the Amiga's coffin.

Sure, the picture is bigger - PC market drove down prices and very soon the price/performance difference was very unfavorable for Amiga - but at least initially the issue was kids wanted to play Wolfenstein, Doom, or at least something similar, and that was not possible if you stayed on the Amiga.

Who owns iD software nowadays? Reading the title I first thought John Carmack had started hunting down metal bands...

Scores are one thing, using it is another.

I ran OpenBSD on a Thinkpad T450 for over a year, but recently switched to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, not because of lack of speed, but some missing applications and blutooth support.

Given I don't run a heavy desktop environment, rather just StumpWM, but still I did not in any way feel OpenBSD was slower than Linux, using the same applications.

OpenSUSE is the most solid Linux I have used so far, but OpenBSD was more to my liking setting up and maintaining. It is well thought out, simple, and... just makes sense.

Yes! That was it.

When on the subject of "things lost in the mists of time", did the original OpenBeOS lead (Michael?) ever return?

IIRC that was one of the two/three main ways forward discussed and planned for after Be Inc went belly up.

- OpenBeOS (Haiku) - rewrite from scratch

- Option 2 (can't remember if it had a name) - was just to Implement BeOS userland on a Linux, to get free access to drivers etc. Most of the Be community was not interested, and I cannot remember if they even got started..?

- (YellowTab - Some company had access to BeOS sources and started releasing and somewhat updating the OS on a commercial basis - but don't think they actually had the rights to do that....)

Airtable is fantastic for so many things, I only wish there was a cheaper "personal" plan with more records, for a couple of bucks / month.

I can't really justify $10 / month for "just for fun" personal projects, and the 1200 records / base is too limited for many ideas (and also 5000 records for $10/month is on the low side as well, even if putting it as a company expense)

Yes, I know, they got to eat and everything, and maybe cost vs income is not feasible for personal accounts.

Exactly same problem for me.

Someone mentioned in some other thread there is some airlines looking into having seats that when reclining, instead of pushing the backrest into the space behind you, your seat slides forward, and thereby tilting the backrest.

But this was met with great protests from others who think crushing long legged people´s knees is a god given right.

"If you don't want your knees crushed, you should have paid extra for one of the four seats with more leg room" "they were already taken? Tough luck"

Thinkpads are almost the System76 equivalent for OpenBSD? As long as you stay away from nvidia graphics, that is...

RMS should sue the publications for defamation and loss of income. Hopefully someone can help him with this if needed.

Could you do it on a 30 minute commute, or is a (most of the time very peaceful) bus trip too much external distractions?

Have you used vanilla Emacs + Evil? Any thoughts on that combination?