Agree. I feel that it is beneficial to present yourself larger than you really are.

The first rule in Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals:

1. Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals

King Louis XIV lost a bunch of his land to astronomers able to more accurately measure said land. This is the sort of thing that can happen when you want to turn your country into a world leader in science.

But no way to backup to cold storage last time I checked. Took a picture of the QR code with another phone and printed it.

> Took a picture of the QR code with another phone and printed it.

Why? Decode the QR code and store the text however you prefer to store text.

i wish there were a straightforward way to export a file of some sort that i can backup without creating yet another special case to manage.

It is possible that the concept of intellectual property could be classified as a mistake of our era by the history teachers of future generations.

Intellectual property is a legal concept; plagiarism is ethical. We’re discussing the latter.

I route midi generated by strudel.cc in to my DAW.

Check out this clip by tossing where he ports a GLSL Shader to C without using any graphics API.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNX9H_ZkfNE

That's impressive!

Peak usability by being able to type a url in to the file manager or a local path in to your browser and have it open in the same window.

Same in Nautilus.

and also peak crashibility. con/con, anyone?

I think you're mistaking Windows millennium for Windows 98 SE

I never got into ME. 98SE was my jam.

While we're down this rabbit hole, my favorite bit was wrapping up the versions of windows: CE, ME, and NT: Windows CEMENT.

My operating system teacher was a hardcore Linux zealot and "M$" hater. But one day he praised Microsoft for Active Directory and group policies. Comparable, well integrated easy to use solutions didn't exist at the time. (mid 2000s). Batch scripts were lame though...

Another thing that Microsoft is regressing on. Entra and intune are a poor substitute for Active Directory.

Likewise with SharePoint compared to file shares and NTFS permissions

Yes! The next generation of computer scientists will be more passionate than we are because they have mastered their craft and got curious despite growing up with dumbed down boring computers.

"NCommander" on YouTube could probably be a good starting point to get a feel for what is required and to ask some questions. Features very interesting/insane archaeology builds like bootstrapping Linux from Scratch on WinXP SFU which ships with an incomplete toolchain from 1993 (?). 8)

Sound can be synthesised out of few basic waveforms. It’s the most common approach.

Yes, I know how sound can be synthesised. That’s not the point I was making though. The point is those mod files are generated from trackers rather than programming any SFX chips directly.