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The link includes the short story, so don't read the AI summary in these comments since it's mixed the article and the story!

Well good news then, since they were joking (I guess) - it's a mod to improve Grim Fandango Remastered's graphics.

In Foobar2000, Shpeck allows you to run those old Winamp vis plugins - I have Milkdrop 2.2 with all those old classics. They still look great on modern tech!

I've been building my music collection since I was ripping CDs by hitting play, recording in Win95 Sound Recorder and running the .wav through LAME (nowadays EAC to flac, of course). I see no need to pay a subscription to listen to my music, when I can just use that same money to buy and own the albums* and not worry about them disappearing.

* also means more money goes to the artist

Also Navidrome + Symfonium means I can still stream to my phone so the only benefit Spotify etc has is new music, but YouTube (+ uBlock) gives me that.

I used to have some with e-ink displays that showed how full they were, but I always wished I could use them to show a label instead.

I missed the news that K-9 was becoming Thunderbird for Android. I used to use it before switching to FairEmail, I think because development had stalled. It's a solid choice, hopefully they don't add too much in like they have with the desktop version.

Maybe his analysis considered this, but the article doesn't mention real-world factors like the climate crisis, the cost of living crisis, and what feels like the resurgence of fascism and the spectre of World War 3. It's noted that liberal families seem more susceptible - perhaps it's because right-wing families are more likely to believe these things aren't real, or aren't a problem?

The country

Which country?

aluminum

Never mind.

It's a weird time to be alive.

My absolute favourite is when the examples say something like "production code should not be written like this, this is just for clarity" with no indication of what's wrong with the code.

Is it just normal Rust stuff like there's unwraps everywhere and it's one big file? Does the example have security or performance problems? Is the example unidiomatic or over-verbose or is it ignoring features real-world code would use? EXPLAIN YOURSELF!

Those photos really sell the value of those satellites. It seems ridiculous that we don't have replacements up there given how many launches there's been in recent years.

You're missing Windows 2000, but I guess you can argue that's Windows NT not mainline Windows. That was definitely in the good camp, and I was not alone in sticking with it for many years (until XP got good).

Edit: I see @NickwithaC@lemmy.world beat me to this point.