Not just that, they have nuns who moonlight as forensic specialists for the local constabulary.

And we have the steam deck, which does this thing already without inviting MS into the home.

There's a two-word concept that covers everything you're trying to say about fact checking an other similar activities: due diligence. If you'd known to use it, it would have simplified your post considerably and it doesn't take a law degree to be familiar with it.

It's like if turkey was no longer available at the store...I'd just eat chicken instead....

And that's what the situation was with turkey up until the early to mid '60; the only time turkey was available in the markets was Thanksgiving, and then it was only whole birds. If you wanted turkey any other time of the year, you either had to find a restaurant that had it on the menu or special order one from your butcher. Then, somebody had the idea of splitting them in half lengthwise and selling half turkeys. That went over so well that they continued on with quarters, and finally turkey parts were available year round. Now, you can get frozen ducks and geese, and, depending on where you are, quail. When it comes to poultry, things have gotten much better here over the last half century.

They've been caught banning users for posting cautionary articles from the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. Meta is a Nazi company that should be shut down entirely.

As does startpage.com. Does DDG keep logs? Startpage doesn't.

Don't you wonder when a building code violation changes from a 'civil' to 'criminal' case?

I do not, for the record. If the government fines you, it is a criminal sanction. They may argue that to avoid the complexities of criminal justice, but they are wrong. And if they can imprison you, they lodged a criminal complaint, no matter what they called it.

Precisely. Probable cause, not indiscriminate assumption of guilt.

No, you're an American. That poster is likely not.

Or you're unaware of the concept of words meaning different things depending on locale...

What did HyperCard even do?

It's kind of hard to explain, and honestly my memory of what you could do with Hypercard and how you actually did it is very fuzzy as it was so long ago.

But basically it was a visual programming languages, where the visual bits you drug around were then also backed by actual code that would do things. You would create a variety of cards, and in those cards could store data, move on to other cards, and so forth.

Some people used it to create games, but used it to create an inventory tracking system for a store, and probably some other stuff I have forgotten about.

In the end, it was a way to make programming a lot more approachable to people at a time when programming was VERY low level for the most part!

A key part of it was once you made a stack of cards it was very easy to share with other people as a kind of application (but one you could modify in any way you liked).

You might get a better feel reading this Tribute To Hypercard.

Obviously your workload demands a desktop machine. Mine I doubt will. Right tool for the right job.

Many of us just don't need as much.

Also the irony is that Disney freaking plagiarized and used stories in the PUBLIC DOMAIN...

No, that's not what happened because once something enters the Public Domain, nobody owns it any more, and anybody who wants is free to use it however they want. That's why Disney sticks to stories in the Public Domain so that they don't have to pay royalties.

My laptop suffers no such trouble with heavy workloads. But the majority of work today seems to be done in a browser. Other than Facebook gobbling up 1.8GB RAM after leafing through Marketplace, a Surface Laptop 4 is able to do plenty of work. A more current version no less. Other brands do just fine. As business apps more often become browser based raw performance is less of a concern. I don't have to work on big jobs in VSC etc, but when I do my laptop doesn't fail me at all. I didn't game like that, so I'm not looking at frame rates and screen painting...

I can confidently predict rsilvergun is going to do exactly what he always does: nothing. He's not the slightest bit interested in doing anything about whatever he's complaining about any more than the intelligentsia of pre-revolution Russia were, but like them, he's only interested in complaining.

Everyone always talks about Woz but it sure seems like Atkinson deserves nearly as much praise.

Sad to see one of the great ones go, but accomplished so much for so many and that is better than a lot of people manage.