I’ve been cutting my own hair for the last 14 years for this exact same reason. I still have the same pair of clippers too so I must have hundreds by now
I’ve been cutting my own hair for the last 14 years for this exact same reason. I still have the same pair of clippers too so I must have hundreds by now
Tried that but I forget the planner exists and inevitably lose it so I stick to cloud-based apps now. ToDoist is my go to for personal checklists and planning now
OK I’m sold - I hear a lot of good things about OneNote but I struggled to understand the appeal on first glance. If it is good enough that you can find notes that far back then that could work well for me.
Btw Planner is great if you haven’t used it. It’s designed as a collaborative tool but I use it mostly as a way of keeping track of where I am with various tasks. I put it in my startup folder so it comes up as soon as I log on. I’ll make checklists and basically talk to myself via card comments. Comments are timestamped and are forwarded to outlook so it’s a better way of logging things than my usual method of digging through old Outlook messages. It has a couple of shortfalls but its really keeping me sane at the moment
I went back to Windows a few years ago because I needed audio production software but would go back to vanilla Debian in a heartbeat if I needed a PC for anything else.
I switched to I3WM later on with my Debian PC and that was godlike too
I actually love vi to this day. As long as you understand the basic concepts (how to navigate, append/insert, switch between modes, save and exit) it’s great. I’m a touch-typer so I could whiz around vi like nobody’s business.
HATED Emacs though
WACUP can do milkdrop
I had similar problems with BASIC type-ins and would not eat, drink or sleep until I had figured out the problem. Trying to do the same with assembly would have killed me
All unlabelled, with a bunch of corrupted ones but you never threw them out just in case it was a one off and you really needed that extra megabyte? Or was that just me?
Another thing - my windows 95 era PC was packed to the gills with bad desktop themes. Usually South Park related with annoying soundclips that played whenever you did something. Obnoxious mouse cursors and wallpapers that hurt the eyes.
I was upset when everything moved to ATX and computers powered off by themselves because I didn’t get to see the modded ‘It Is Now Safe To Turn Off Your Computer’ screens that came with the themes
Config.sys and autoexec.bat were a dark art! I think I still have an old 486 somewhere with system commander installed.
I didn’t even realise Mortal Kombat was available on those 2 platforms! My friend’s dad sold me 2 A500s, an A500+ and a crate of cracked floppies for £20 back in the early 2000s when they were out of favour. I hunted down a null-modem cable so I could copy ADFs over from the PC,. Played a lot of Premier Manager on those, and reading old disk magazines. But mostly my memories are of guru meditation errors, cleaning the dust from the mouseball and contending with dodgy floppy disks / drives.
I remember installing either Red Hat or Mandriva linux years ago and being in absolute disbelief that it was free. I went straight back to Windows when I realised i couldn’t play my games anymore and it crashed all the time but it was still phenomenal.
I never had a voodoo and my old AMD CPU + ATI card could never manage to run glide wrappers properly I don’t think. Super jealous of voodoo owners. I remember drooling over the old magazine ads they used to publish
I had an obsession with the LucasArts adventures. I hunted down copies of just about all of them when I was younger. Monkey Island being my all time favourite. Was nice that they didn’t kill you off at every opportunity like the Sierra games did.
Shareware games were crazy. I had a CD compilation of called ‘250 bat and ball games’ with clone after clone of breakout/arkanoid and nothing else. What a time to be alive
The most fun you could possibly have short of watching paint dry!
I remember we had a copy of the game Trolls, but didn’t know the password to run it. Never deterred me from spending hours typing random words in trying to guess it.
We had Lemmings and Prince of Persia too actually. I sank a ton of time into those
To be fair I would expect someone with a user name such as your to have played your fair share of them. I would usually get frustrated when my graph paper maps stopped making sense… Likely a ‘me’ problem I think
Didn’t have Repton but had something similar on an old PS1 Net Yarose compilation (demo 42 from the UK Playstation magazine). Game was called Rocks and Gems. Good times!
I don’t know if it’s just me but did anyone ever actually complete those games? I might have just about finished Zork one time years later but for all the games I started that was about it. Good times though. Scott Adams will always be a hero of mine
Millennial. But we had Granny’s Garden running on an Acorn Archidedes in our country rather than Oregon Trail. I was a kid in the 90s
File Manager is the best for bulk renaming too