SyntaxBomb - Indie Coders

Well with Microsoft and Apple's antics of trying to lock you into their software and online accounts and then spying on you. Security flaws in the CPUs. Software that heavily relies on a single package maintained by one person, that with social engineering was tricked into giving access as a maintainer to some malicious actor. A cyber security firm running a program on Windows boot as a device driver that then runs additional sub programs with no fail safes in the event of null object being returned. And now some clot, or clots putting an encrypted secure boot encryption key online with a four character pass code. I'm starting to thing that owning a computer and keeping it secure with third party security software isn't worth it the effort.

Think I'll take a lesson from the John Wick moves and start to use a Commodore 64 for online usage.

 

....treat yourself to an un-modded Amiga A500 (my first commodore after being a Speccy fan).

Quote from: 3DzForMe on July 28, 2024, 05:17:36
....treat yourself to an un-modded Amiga A500 (my first commodore after being a Speccy fan).

I've had a stock A500 for nearly 20 years.

Confess I upgraded to an A1200 - think its got 4 of the extra 8Mbytes enabled the last time it was alive.

I bought a second hand A1200 in the 90s, and it even came with a hard drive (which I discovered by accident) and it blew me away.

Simulating offseason player/club statistics in Championship Manager 93 (or was it 94?) went from 1 day with a floppy drive to 15 minutes with a hd.

-Henri

That's partly why I find it refreshing to use simpler older computers sometimes, my favourite is the Spectrum Next (which I guess is new old lol).

Quote from: 3DzForMe on July 28, 2024, 08:36:35Confess I upgraded to an A1200

Had two of those for 20 years. Got that the same time as the A500. Someone I used to know was getting rid of his, so I bought them all off him.

That reminds me, I need to sort out my A500 drive problem.