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Soo, booting your computer from someone else's computer?

I mean we've had thin clients and PXE for ages?

DDG has also gotten much worse since the introduction of AI features.

It used to be somewhat better: Corel Linux and Creative apps existed...

Thank you for the info! Otherwise I would have missed the deal. The affinity suite is the best thing since Photoshop 5.0

2008 ultimate

I'm still consulting my venerable encyclopaedia britannica dvd until this day. It works great under wine and actually does not work under a current version of windows anymore.

Thanks I might try that. Unfortunately I can't mount everything at boot, because that would take forever with some slow NAS around the network.

Yeah, though I presume I'd need to set xdg values so mounted shares through nautilus will show up in programs/interfaces. I'll look into it, thanks.

For me the direct opposite is true. About two years ago Google stopped giving me any accurate results, feeding me a bunch of semi-related garbage instead. DuckDuckGo feels like the Google of old: results that actually (literally) contain the terms of the query and not much else. I'd hate using the internet without it.

Honestly all this feels like the railway's Dieselization 100yrs ago. When the end of steam powered engines was drawing near, coal hauling railroads and Baldwin Locomotive in the U.S. tried all kinds of whacky and hilariously inefficient engine designs, just to keep the ol' ways alive... none of these worked out - everyone who stuck to it lost hugely. Viz. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_and_Ohio_class_M-1

Albion - sci-fi, somewhat like avatar (the movies), one of a kind and basically open world before that was a thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion_(video_game)

You know that abebooks is a subsidiary of Amazon, right? As is ZVAB in Europe. They really have the market by the reins.