Connor McLaughlin, the developer of Duckstation, a popular Playstation emulator, calls NixOS and Arch Linux "hostile package environments", and blocks building for those Linux distributions.

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Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Sergey Brin, Steven Sinofsky, Richard Branson, and Steve Ballmer. All in the Epstein Files... but for different reasons. Plus: The BASH manual. Seriously.

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The Keynote for FOSDEM 2026, the largest Open Source Conference, declared they are "becoming more political, for obvious reasons," & "the time to be nice about a few things is finally over."

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Ads are filling the entirety of the Web -- websites, podcasts, YouTube videos, etc. -- at an increasing rate. Prices for those ad placements are plummeting. Consumers are desperate to use ad-blockers to make the web palatable. Google (and others) are desperate to break and block ad-blockers. All of which results in... more ads and lower pay for creators.

It's a fascinatingly annoying cycle. And there's only one viable way out of it.

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Those in power with openSUSE make it clear they will not allow me anywhere near anything related to the openSUSE project. Ever. For any reason.

Well, that settles that, then! Guess I won't be contributing to openSUSE! 🤣

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You know, I've forgotten how much I enjoy hanging out here. :-D

I love that @Lunduke continues reporting the news that isn't getting reported anywhere else. Sometimes it gets old - another foundation or whoever goes hard left, another tech legend got banned, another system gets hacked, etc. But it's important enough that I still want to follow it. And he still works in some fun stuff too (like his ReactOS piece, which kinda has me wanting to create my own Linux distro with a fully Win32 userland). :-D

But he's not the only one creating awesome stuff on here! In case you're not aware...

• @Greg_Gauthier has not one, not two, but three channels going! Old Computer Nerd, Old Sci-Fi Nerd, and Old Philosophy Nerd. I just spent like 2 hours following along on this cool "let's do a type-in BASIC program" video. More on that later.
• @Dirt2901 posts random YouTube videos that always lead to fun! Whether it's new emulators, computing history, tutorials, or random stuff like "hard to ...

January was getting away from me, so last week I published two old interviews: one with Lotus founder Mitch Kapor and another with Ultima creator Richard Garriott (aka Lord British).

https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/computerworld-interviews-lotus-mitch

https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/microtimes-interviews-lord-british

Last Saturday, I wrote an article about the NCR Tower 1632 system (because I liked the ads). I got an interesting comment from someone who has used the system back in the day.

https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/ncr-tower-1632

Finally, an interesting interview with one of the co-founders of NeXT, Guy L. (Bud) Tribble. (Did you ever notice that I use that adjective quite frequently? I need a thesaurus.) My goal was to post it last Saturday, so it would still count towards January. I was almost done editing around 11 pm and the next thing I knew, it was Sunday morning. So, I finished and pulled the trigger.

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