Quantumantics

Yeah, that’s why I didn’t speculate as to whether 5.25" or 3.5" was more likely, just that 8" would have been unlikely. We don’t know how old the systems are, but I suspect you’re right; the supply of 3.5" diskettes would have stuck around much longer, too.

They said systems dating back to the 80’s, so I’m gonna guess that 8" are out, they didn’t last all that long once 5.25" came along.

Damn, that brought back some memories from elementary school; good times.

I’m so glad they didn’t get these ready in time for the annual mint sets. I’m curious whether they will appear in the proof set yet to release this year, though.

rofl, even.

Professionally, I’m a teacher in a subject area totally unrelated to IT. My only formal training was a high-school program that taught me networking (in the days before wifi was common), and an intro to C++ course during college. Everything I’ve learned since has been piecemeal and self-taught. I’m forever grateful to those with the proper training who write up guides, answer questions, and generally help out those who don’t have that training.

If Amazon sales of “MP3 players” are indicative it’s simmering; I see a handful with over 1-2K sales per month (assuming we can trust those numbers, it is Amazon after all). I imagine it’s going to be a bit muted for a while due to the memory and storage price gouging and that may push more people towards CD’s, which are already seeing a resurgence.

I’ve not seen one thus far here on the Fediverse. If you haven’t already, check out this site which has some exhaustive instructions for working with the BC-250 - it was invaluable when I got mine!

Tiny Core Linux

Quite true; this seems to be the standard practice, however, for companies when they want to keep the high prices hidden from casual viewing and commentary.

A student who graduated from my high school had their admission to a university rescinded for things they said and did in a Facebook group for accepted students.

They don’t want the bad press of openly gouging people for that, especially with how bad prices are already.

If you want a smaller stepping stone, check out LMDE!

From a quick look at the documentation, if the hardware has WiFi capability you can configure OPNsense to be an access point as well. Personally, I keep the two separate: I have a small N200-based box as my OPNsense router and a separate access point running OpenWRT for the wifi devices on my network.

Oh, they have KDE in their repo, it’s just not the out-of-box default.

If you’re okay with something other than vanilla Debian, give Linux Mint Debian Edition a look. I used it for years without significant hiccups playing a wide variety of games. I switched to Bazzite after testing it out and liking the immutable aspects of it (though as another commenter mentioned, there is some pain involved in the learning curve), but I still keep LMDE around on my old gaming rig and on a couple other computers of mine.

That stood out to me, too; I wonder if that model assumes the shrinkage of the Pacific reverses when the Atlantic starts to close. strange. I also didn’t see them try to account for the rifting in Africa, perhaps they assume that will fail to complete like the North American one did

This scenario is one possible projection; it assumes the eventual development of a subduction zone in the West Atlantic that would overcome the spreading at the mid Atlantic ridge, eventually sealing the basin. I don’t understand the mechanisms well enough to know how that prediction was made, so someone with more experience on the subject can chime in.

Agreed, Chris is such a great musician.

Here’s to hoping they learned their lesson from SotS, but I’m not holding my breath.