I don't think that is necessarily out of the running yet. OS development is expensive and low profit. Commodification may be inevitable. Control of the shell and GUI, where they can push advertisements and shovelware and telemetry on you, that is profitable.

So in 20 years, 50? I predict proprietary OSes will die out eventually, balance of probability.

You definitely do have to work harder to find more diverse viewpoints here. It's a bit of a chicken and egg problem. At least on mastodon you can specifically follow people who talk about things outside your realm of experience.

I thought cheugy was more a synonym for tryhard, someone working really hard to 'get with th youths'.

Since we got municipal compost, completely dry and nonstinky garbage. Super nice.

This was 2001 at a shoestring dialup ISP that also did consulting and had a couple small software products. So no.

Half of these I've never heard of, so I'd try one of those out of curiosity. American candy?

Is HDR just so amazing that it's worth the hassle of using windows though? Games get shinier all the time, it's not really exciting to me anymore. Give it a year and it'll be in anyway, and people will be on to the next randomnhotness that they can't possibly live without that somehow they were fine without the year previous.

Streets ahead, brah. The Brahm Meister.

Jeep is a variant of GP, General Purpose vehicle.

Do your own googling, I got bored after 3 :p

Why cs3 when krita would have more features and be free? Familiarity?

I member when memes were called taglines and we distributed text files of them on FidoNet.