Learn to cook (which saves you money) and do all the house chores (including ironing).

An interesting view. But the PET was definitely lower specced than the later 16/32-bit machines usually regarded as workstations.

Yes, possibly.

That’s likely, but I wonder whether any other office workstations were actually developed.

Although it did have an nVidia card, my PC was an otherwise ordinary machine running Ubuntu, not a gaming rig or something custom built.

I love Linux. But I got so exasperated with system updates breaking X-Windows and dropping me into the console with no clue what to do, for some time I intentionally deferred the updates.

I wanted a stable daily driver, so in 2015 I switched from Linux to ChromeOS. Now I’m back to Linux with the Crostini container of ChromeOS and Raspberry Pi OS on a Raspberry Pi 400.

My first computer was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K in the early 1980s when I was 17. My parents agreed to buy it and I used to device to learn about computers, which I was curious about as I had played a bit with the Apple IIe and the Sinclair ZX-81 of some classmates.

Because it’s the most effective and powerful tool for putting the Unix philosophy into practice.

An alternative is to ask questions about features of the pitched product or offer.

Possibly saving time and resources.

Okay. But if a robocaller doesn’t lead to results, it may be programmed to give up on unpromising numbers.

While I don’t downvote posts with emojis I’m most interested in reading tech content, where emojis feel redundant and distracting.

Lisp, the language that has them all.

Looks nice indeed, thanks.

Interesting suggestion but possibly overkill.

Text searches (e.g. page search in browsers) that do return results, but they don’t show up anywhere on the screen or aren’t highlighted.

Zutty, the Zero-cost Unicode Teletype which the developer describes as “A high-end terminal for low-end systems”.

Possibly.

So why not make the washing cycle end when the water has fully drained? I get the impression the timer starts after the drain.

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