The Amiga was a magic machine back in the day. So many good memories for me. I’m glad others had their own slice of that.
As for me; I have to say I got the A500 mini (reproduction thing), then later sold it. Very few of the games hold up…but the ones that do, really do. Dunno if N&S would be on my desert island list - probably Settlers, Moonstone and the like. But yeah, you’ve got good taste :)
Enjoy :)
If Perry drops the A500 ulimate, we’re honour bound to buy it :)
Perrifractic may very well actually do that; he seems to have as much love for the A500 as he does for the C64.
I remember trillian. You might like this -
Telnet. An elegant tool for a more civilized time.
I see you, graybeard. And I pay respect.
No, not that I know of. We use to have local / oz only IRC channels, because overseas calls were expensive. So, you would dial into your ISP and then have access to city/state wide IRCs like AusNet. Later that became national. That was circa 94-99.
It was BBS before that.
I remember buying a small black and white TV from a second hand store to watch the 2000 Olympics and chatting to people over mIRC simultaneously.
The TV was sitting right next to a Apple Newton in the store. When I went back to get it, it had already been sold. Ended up buying a palm pilot 1000 instead.
ICQ? Listen here, young man.
I grew up in outback Australia, in the before times. My first time online was a 1200-baud modem on a BBC Electron.
We did school over HF radio with School of the Air, had no phone lines, and barely reliable electricity.
Do not speak to me of the deep magics. I was there when they were written.
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Ah. You speak of the ancient magics. Tell me…have you ever been UNCOMFORTABLY ENERGETIC?
The lesser of two evils is still…evil. Anthropic’s hands aren’t clean either…they’re just minimally less caked in blood.
BUT
One can hope that this is the ‘turn towards the light side’. If ‘don’t be evil’ can finally be made profitable, well, self interest might actually be a lever for good. Ha.
I wish there was a clearly, unambiguously good guy in the cloud AI space. I don’t know how to make that work with economies of scale being what they are. Yes, that includes Lumo - though one has faint hope on that end to.
I’ll take “what’s a tautology” for $100, thanks Alex
…Science?
A WITCH! A WITCH!
BURN THE WITCH!
Your memory is not bad :)
The middle east thing was likely ADCC. The Japan thing was likely PRIDE, NHB or Lumax Cup. Many different promotions before UFC ate em up back then.
You’d love these I think
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_a_Champion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smashing_Machine_(2025_film)
I agree with you. More to the point…why accept code from anyone (clanker or meatbag) without provenance?
If I don’t know you, and you can’t explain what it does? Straight into the garbage it goes.
The issue isn’t AI contamination. It’s accepting code from any source without provenance and accountable review.
Things Lemmy does well
I personally find Lemmy a great deal more pleasant to interact on, with strong pre 2010 forum vibes and I feel that’s a good thing. YMMV
TL;DR: There’s a lot less “look at me, look at me!” on Lemmy and it’s all the better for it.