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“I’ve said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that." – an actual Bill Gates quote referring to the 640k quote that won’t die.

But yes, it was probably satirically ascribed to him because of MS-DOS not having the capability to deal with any more than that amount of RAM for a lot longer than it probably should have.

The “temporary” solution of requiring an extra driver to be able to do so (EMM386.SYS or similar) remained in place right up until DOS-based Windows was allowed to die.

(The underlying reason was almost certainly ancient IBM PC memory-mapped IO standards, so maybe we could ascribe the original quote an engineer working there some time around 1980.)

Do you not know why people would want to block lemmy.ml?

Check system settings for a keyboard entry / applet. I’m on LMDE Cinnamon and have no idea what the equivalents are on Kubuntu, but over here it’s definitely possible to change/remove the default keyboard assignments and set up custom ones instead.

For example, I have Shift+WWW (the multimedia key that starts a web browser by default) set to start the browser with an alternate profile. I could just as easily set plain old WWW to, say, start a terminal instead, or run that custom command.

The hardest part is knowing what custom command to run to get the desired effect.

PCX or nothin’

Apparently, The joe editor has a jstar mode, so says this old Stackexchange thread. I can’t verify because I’ve never used Wordstar, but joe’s available in my distro’s repository.

No idea if it can read old WordStar files, but maybe you don’t need that.

For the GUI version - and some old file capability, the same page and other searches turn up WordTsar which is in progress. The dev says they’ll be picking up development again next month.

He must be scared of his parents - or scared of losing an inheritance - because he hasn’t changed his own name to have an X in it yet.

Ex-lax Mux certainly has a ring to it, don’t you think?

Should have gone for something like “Dennis Richie Advanced Computing University Lab Annex.”

Parses weird, but look at that acronym.

[…] two more Chinese swimmers had tested positive […] but were cleared by Chinese officials

Ah, the old “we’ve investigated ourselves and found no wrong-doing”

At least try “we hired an outside agency, totally didn’t bribe them, and they found no wrong-doing”, or better yet “we totally didn’t bribe the independent third party hired by someone else, and they found no wrong-doing”.

But I suppose I should be glad it wasn’t “we totally didn’t aim veiled threats at someone’s family and livelihood, etc.”

A wild Elon appeared!

Twitter has evolved into X!

X attacks Twitter!

X has hurt itself in its confusion!

X has hurt itself in its confusion!

X has hurt itself in its confusion!

Haven’t seen this in the other comments: Coolness factor. If you’re a successfully popular teacher, i.e. “cool”, then your students will likely want to participate in whatever it is you suggest.

However, if they don’t see you as cool, you might have difficulty, and might even put them off the platform. This is not something that can be fixed easily, and trying to be cool is about as uncool as you can get.

(Making it mandatory will work, of course, but how you go about that could determine whether they choose to stay on the platform once you’re done. This was kind of covered by OP talking about Matrix in another comment here.)

Save your effort. What’s already there is there forever. They can just roll back your comments, or even, if they’re in the mood for it, make it appear under an entirely different username.

The only way to win is not give them any more. And that fight is already under way. They’ve already started recommending old comments after new ones because the quality isn’t as high any more.

Think about it: The only people who contribute to Reddit now are the clueless and the sort of people who have willingly stayed.

I like to imagine Spez stomping around saying “Hmph! Hmph! It’s not fair! Why did they all leave?! They’re stealing my revenue by not giving me anything for free!”. I mean, he’s probably not doing that, but I do like to imagine it.

To stick with the analogy, this is like putting a small CPU inside the bottle, so the main CPU<->RAM bottleneck isn’t used as often. That said, any CPU, within RAM silicon or not, is still going to have to shift data around, so there will still be choke points, they’ll just be quicker. Theoretically.

Thinking about it, this is kind of the counterpart to CPUs having an on-chip cache of memory.

Edit: counterpoint to counterpart

Tch. As if Hungary and Poland needed a bigger disagreement than the pronunciations of ‘s’ and ‘sz’.

Interesting. Given that Bush claimed to see something, for “We understand each other” to Biden, I’m reading “As the sociopath you now know me to be, I am able to show exactly the amount of humanity to serve my purpose at any given time, and right now, you get nothing.”

Do you mean the Aether mod that recently got updated or something else?

Installing mods to Java Minecraft can be a chore regardless of the ecosystem. And usually it’s a third party mod loader that adds a new version to the default launcher config, not something provided by Mojang.

That said, Aether is a Forge mod and I haven’t used Forge in a few years at this point, so maybe things are different now, or I’m only remembering the way that the rival Fabric ecosystem works instead.

Be prepared for the “ephebophile” argument, which, if Wikipedia is to be believed anyway, is actually for ages 15-19, but it won’t stop those who have twisted their minds into a knot to explain this away.

Or the “if there’s grass on the field, play ball” argument (which is kind of ironic given the popularity of shaving it all off again.) which covers anyone who shows any sign of adolescent hair growth.

Or “she was asking for it / totally wanted it / shouldn’t have been acting that way / shouldn’t have been dressed like that”.

Because those are all the soundest of arguments.

But the unspoken reason will be: “He’s rich and famous and therefore he can do what the hell he wants with no consequences. F–k you.”

It was (and may still be) possible to make an older version of Pocket Edition run on Linux through unofficial shenanigans, but the official launcher says “Not playable on this device”.

minecraft.net also explicitly says: “Minecraft: Java Edition runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux; Minecraft: Bedrock Edition runs on Windows. Deluxe Collection content only runs on Minecraft: Bedrock Edition on Windows.”

Other unofficial shenanigans that may or may not work include but are not limited to: Running under a VM, running under something like Wine.

So, yes, technically it runs, but Microsoft are pretty clear that it’s not supposed to.

I guess an assumption that no-one would do both blinded me to that fact.

See also: How a remote Kansas location keeps getting visited by the FBI

Disclaimer - the above is an 8-year-old story. No idea if the three-letter agencies are still turning up there, but I wouldn’t be surprised.

No, but SearX does similar things. I’ve been learning about Kagi recently, and as far as I can tell, they don’t index pages on their own, they just use APIs provided by the real search engines.