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Cake day: July 15th, 2023

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  • To be fair, with Apple it’s kind of both. Because they make a large chunk of their gazillions off hardware, they can make privacy part of their platform and mean it.

    Whereas with Google, trolling your private information to sell you more stuff is all they are, and everything else serves this.

    It may not be perfect, but in my opinion it’s ok to view the former as a better option than the latter. If convenience and integration are also important to you.
















  • I don’t know about the OP, but our first computer was a TRS-80 clone with a tape drive, 16k ram, and stunning 64x16 B&W graphics. Every month dad would drive us to computer club, we’d copy as many games as we could (onto tape), then spend the rest of the month trying to get them to work. Rinse and repeat. It was awesome.

    Also typed in basic games from the computer mags which needed lots of debugging. How I learnt to program (before being taught Pascal in high school).