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as I was pretty young and wouldn’t even have had the means to

That's why I paid for the license in 2008, I was earning pretty good money by then, even though. I also paid for some other software like Fraps ($37) and Winrar ($52) around that time hehe. It's not like it's that expensive either when you consider they're lifetime licenses.
Which reminds me, I should start donating more to open source projects I use now that I've switched to linux.

How it feels rolling back a snapshot from a month ago because you messed up your linux installation.

It's to restrict the rights of citizens. It's classic culture war bs.

"our" products? Who are "we" in this case?

Dang, mIRC actually turned 30 in February. Crazy. Even though I no longer use mIRC, I'm glad I bought a license back in 2008. It was $20 then, and it's $19.95 today. Somehow, despite inflation it has gotten 5 cents cheaper 😅

Like the barcode person said, this was most definitely a PR stunt because she can't sell her music like she used to. Her recent album after a long break was a total flop.

I did notice my RSS downloader having downloaded Fedora-KDE-Desktop-Live-x86_64-42 from distrowatch yesterday morning, but I wasn't entirely sure if it was the real deal or still beta.

Ah shit, she found the loophole, if she resigns she's off the hook!

Now that's a niche reference.

2025 morning routine before going to work: Taking a picture of your odometer to ensure not getting scammed.

I guess it isn't that surprising after the VW emission scandal where they ran a different configuration, reducing emissions, whenever someone was testing the car.

I feel like an important piece of the story regarding how directx changed game development is that it was Gabe Newell, a microsoft employee at the time, that led the DOOM95 porting project which cemented windows as the gaming OS .
It feels poetic that Steam was part of getting Vulkan and Proton off the ground.

I mostly use startpage, but occasionally ecosia and mojeek.