ElectricMachman

…Good god, someone actually called him Clippit. I never thought the day would come

Then which country am I speaking to?

I’m counting that–which means I also have to count Windows 10 IoT, whose support ends in 2032. XP still wins!

His name is Neil!

Windows XP. 2001–2019. If 10 beats that I’ll be impressed

They used to! I actually got the 1TB plan the same year they phased it out. Good timing on my part there. Waste of £70 or whatever it was.

Shared goal? Shared with whom?

Genuinely confused as to what the use case is for this. Do you put it in your own app / page? Is it for managing features across all your services? Is it just its own features??

If anyone wants a ‘quick’ solution, have a look at ClassicPress which was forked from WordPress a while ago.

https://www.classicpress.net/

NB: it does have a big friendly ‘migrate’ button which works pretty well (in the form of a WordPress plugin). However, expect some of your other plugins not to be compatible.

Any IT admins in the audience: this is what remediation scripts were made for

I don’t have any links to hand, but look into Dynamic DNS. It’s basically a way for your device / router to talk to your domain registrar, and update their DNS records whenever your IP address changes.

Have a look at DuckDNS as a starting point.

I’m not 100% sure off the top of my head, but the end result is that the drive is set to A: rather than B: in Windows. Something to do with the pins on the motherboard specifying the drive order.

And why the floppy drive’s ribbon cable has a little twist in it??

Two options:

• Change the DNS and gateway so they’re pointing to 0.0.0.0
• Give the Windows install a static IP or lease, and block that IP on the router

It wouldn’t really. Hand-drawn sprites are pretty standard even today - whether they’re hand-pixelled (Stardew Valley) or frame-by-frame animation (Spiritfarer).

Most things in Doom, if we’re counting photos!

The characters and environments in Fallout and JA2 are basically still frames (sprites) of 3D models at specific angles. They were rendered once on a powerful development machine, and converted to sprites for our lowly Pentiums and Voodoos.

If you think it’s an unregulated mess now, take a look at the home computer scene in the mid-80s. Absolute wild west, dude.

Lots of the best games were prerendered! Donkey Kong Country, Fallout, Jagged Alliance 2, Duke 3D, the Pro Pinball games, just to name a few.

I do have a soft spot for prerendered graphics.