I'm in the four-digit club, too.

My Commander X16 came together a week ago, and while I haven't had much time with it yet, I do find it fun.

I never did get to experience the Amiga, but an OS fully in ROM is sort of nice to have again.

Last time I tried the svt-av1 encoder in ffmpeg, it still didn't pass captions/subtitles through like libx264/libx265 do. Getting those into the final encoding are a requirement for me, and I don't like having to do several extra steps to make that happen.

Also, only one of my three Roku units supports AV1 playback, so I haven't bothered for that reason. libx265 at defaults looks worse than libx264, so everything I've transcoded for archiving is with libx264.

If you're in that same age group, then I was taking screenshots before you were born.

And if the driver is non-verbal, for whatever reason? Physical controls for the climate system are, to me, essential.

I yearned for the Compucolor II units advertised in Byte magazine.

I don't think I ever got to be in the same room with one.

My high school had a computer room in 1981.

The computer was an Altair 8800b with time-sharing BASIC, multiple terminals, both glass and Teletype.

You're on my lawn.

(I was using computers since 1977, mainly a friend's PET, and was finally able to afford my own in 1980, a used TRS-80 Model I.)

I was conservative in my young years.

I got better.

TDS stands for Trump Devotion Syndrome. . . .

His followers are deranged, to no matter which word one puts in the middle, it describes his followers more than his critics.

Yes. It doesn't phone home, and it has the NT4/Win95 UI.

Who else is doing this shady crap?

"For some reason the telescreen in the living-room was in an unusual position. Instead of being placed, as was normal, in the end wall, where it could command the whole room, it was in the longer wall, opposite the window. To one side of it there was a shallow alcove in which Winston was now sitting, and which, when the flats were built, had probably been intended to hold bookshelves. By sitting in the alcove, and keeping well back, Winston was able to remain outside the range of the telescreen, so far as sight went. He could be heard, of course, but so long as he stayed in his present position he could not be seen. It was partly the unusual geography of the room that had suggested to him the thing that he was now about to do."

-Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

You're less likely to be harassed for a receipt at Walmart if you make sure everything you bought (you did buy it, right?) it bagged.

Exactly. I don't have a garage, so I won't be able to charge at night when, eventually, I have some sort of EV. I'll have to charge during the day and stow the cable at night.

Present.

Voter registration is a State issue regulated by law. Why would a constitutional amendment be useful?

An amendment could change that.

Unfortunately, Congress has little will to act to protect the people most vulnerable, so enabling legislation is likely to be weak, or slanted to favor the oligarchs.