Yes! I wasn’t looking for whether it existed, I knew it did, but it was in a .sit file with an abbreviated name. Also apparently was an aplha build, so maybe that’s why the AI insisted it did not exist. Was looking for the last version available for the classic OS as I had one of the earliest.
Truth.
Am still clinging to Win 10 Pro. Since I mostly game with the PC, and watch videos with that machine… do I really need to upgrade the OS as long as the games run? At least at this point, I won’t get a gaming session interrupted by an update anymore, which is nice.
I have classic apple computers.
I also maintain a small list of sites I visit to get abandonware programs for them. Of the times I’ve used the AI results, I found what I was looking for fewer than 15%. At one point, I had the AI telling me there was no such thing as Winamp for Mac, while I was running it in MacOS 8.6 under the virtualization program, Sheepshaver.
Seriously?
AI’s got so little ability to sort through archived knowledge and pull up old links and sources, it’s as if anything before 2006 never existed.
Nuts to that.
I hit up ten blue links and have never looked back.
Compared to google they’re fucking amateurs.
Awww. Too bad… so sad…
Amen to that. Had a downstairs neighbor that goes to a dispensary all the time and uses vapes. Tried some and it did fuck-all for me, other than give me a headache and make me feel queasy.
Shit’s not right. I’ve got a tin with 40+ year old beans and at some point in the spring am going to see if I can germinate some of it and see what grows and if it’s better.
NGL, what there is that I’ve tried in the past decade isn’t impressive.
Quick release high and even quicker come down. What happened to the easy rise and long, slow return that gave you a lift for an entire afternoon?
God, that would be so cool… A few tokes and I could madly play jazz piano…
As someone that came out of a CSA victim position, most everyone I knew that was using in High School - the girls most of all - were dealing with similar issues.
Whether it was low-key sexual assault - being groped, or pressured to “put out” or even family friends or relatives, (in my own case it was “Uncle Touchy” in 1978, when I was 13… He was 34, hairy, chicken-chested and gross and thought he was God’s Gift to women…) in the late 70’s / early 80’s there was a lot of sexual abuse that was part of the landscape for girls “growing up”.
Much of it came out of the social norms of the time - the fallout of the “swinging” 70’s where it was all about sex. 24/7 sex, preferrably with 14 year olds, as that was the age in which the consensus was that there was something wrong with you if your cherry hadn’t been popped… Just a dreadful era, honestly.
The pot use was to numb the pain and forget what they’d gone through. I chose not to forget… and got stoned anyhow.
Hm.
I just logged into my fb account and got zero shit like that. Just posts from a distant cousin, a few local people I follow and my local news.
I make it a point to hide/block all the extraneous shit that the feed offers - and have sone so for years - so maybe that’s the difference?
Weird.
NGL, I have Win 7 on a Mac that I play old as hell PC games with and FF has been a disaster on it for a long time - to the point where I get most of the downloads of games and the various drivers they need with the macOS install…
Oooh, IIRC it dawned on me about the time that facebook insisted all users have their actual names on their pages. (I can’t remember when that was, maybe 2012 or 2013? Not sure, it was a while ago however.)
That was the red flag for me.
It was also the point when I deleted my posts and comments on fb (it took months to get it all) then unfriended everyone and logged out for a month. When I logged back in I had a handful of comments on the (ex-)friends pages that popped up, since the feed will scour the servers to show you content on your home page, so I re-friended them, deleted the comments, logged out and waited another month. After the last time I logged in (I did four deletion waves of comments) fb was showing me totally random strangers “I Might Know…”
Perfect.
I then changed up my primary email on FB to my yahoo throwaway, logged out for another month, logged in with the new email and made a totally fake name for myself… Who I am does not exist on facebook, nor are any friends or family listed as friends and no one can see anything on my page.
You know… here’s the thing…
Years ago, I’d be on Reddit and reading the usual rants and raves about the government, and how the public should be wary of it and we are heading into a security state… and I always positied that the real threat actors WRT privacy and security were going to be companies like facebook and google and the businesses that made internet-connected devices.
Compared to them, as far as data colleciton and surveillance of people - the government was filled with rank amateurs.
I’d consistently get downvoted or pooh-poohed for being “naive.”
God fucking dammit… on this… I am absolutely pissed off that I was calling this one - and have been - for over a decade.
FML, I hate this SOOOOOO much.
Holy shit. Lemme guess… it’s a southern state and in a majority black district?
Oh, I recognize that ‘script!’ Just like my younger brother’s when we were kids.
I like that you’re getting sneaky with it. The thing with the comic book lettering or the architectural stuff is that it is all capitals. Is a good start for just getting the shapes down and the basics are of course squares.
My younger brother was an emergency C-section and he came out fully purple as the umbilical cord had wrapped around his neck and was choking him…
Ended up with impared development due to lack of oxygen and he was diagnosed on the Autism spectrum - used to be called Aspergers… He would literally sit on a pillow on the floor and rock back and forth for hours and God save you if you touched him. He’d freak out. Too much stimulus. When he was still an infant, folks had to feed him by leaning him back and putting a small throw pillow on his belly and propping his bottle on that.
Touch was too much.
Dad taught him to write with the architectural lettering and he’s now in his late 50’s and has a beautiful script.
It takes time and it’s just a matter of finding something the kid can latch on to and be excited by. Brother loved Star Trek and sci-fi in general so we ran with that.
Part of his adult education classes he was taking a few years ago involved writing a page of whatever he wanted… So he wrote a short science fiction story - as he put it - more of a part of a chapter of a story he’d had in his head… It was quite well written!
I told him he should keep at it once the class was over. Instead he decided to focus on cooking afterwards. Who’da thought?
He’s a fantastic cook, eats better than I do - is all organic and whole foods. So funny how we all turned out.
This was a public school and they tolerated this shit?
Sweet Jesus the standards have fallen.
Is it the parents, school board and administration or a combination of all 3?
The fine motor control that comes of handwriting is critical if he likes to tinker or discovers any sort of work/hobby that requires manual dexterity.
Keep pushing on that, also, get a book on how to print like you’re writing the dialogue in a comic book or how to print like an architect making a blueprint. If he can work out the shapes and spacing, he can develop his own legible style in time and move on to a fusion-style cursive with those print shapes… It realy does make a difference in note-taking.
My dad was a design draftsman and taught me how to do that block print that I’d see on blueprints, and I have a super easy to read cursive based on that now.
… it’s a problem that’s arisen because class sizes are out of control …
If I may ask, just how large are the classes today?
For reference, in 1980, my 10th grade English class (Mrs. Chase, she was awesome) had 36 students.
That was average for my school at the time.
The BIG classes like general US History (taught by Mr. Conway, who was wildly popular) had 40+ kids.
Mr Conway also kept a real honest to goodness stocks in his class room, so anyone that misbehaved had two options… into the stocks for the class or off to the assistant Vice Prinicpal’s office and spend a day in ISS. (in school suspension)
There would ALWAYS be one jackass Junior in each class that would opt for the stocks, at the start of every year and then NO one EVER caused a beef in Mr. Conway’s classes - or really ANY of the government studies (US History, Civics, Social Studies) deparement classes… Hearing about who chose the stocks and the rumors usually scared the underclassmen shitless, so they rarely ever piped up… except for the really stupid smartasses that always tried to test how far they could go…
God, I hope so…
Is Moore’s Law being resurrected?
Yaah… naah.
I’d just pull the drive, reinstall on a new one, redownload the games and go merrily on my way. I have ZERO on the machine that is so important that I’d do anything other than that.
NGL, it’s current install is getting a bit cluttered since the last time I redid it with a full erase and reformat, so it wouldn’t be too terrible.
I don’t even have an email account set up on the device.