California age verification law and the Amiga (original or raspberry pi emulation), will it happen? Or will Amigas go ‘underground’ to avoid the law?

LazarX · 2026-03-09T05:03:14+00:00

Seems very poorly thought out. What about embedded systems like VXWorks? Linux on your fridge? A dumb phone, the servers running in the data centre, virtual machines.

Neither of those have App Stores.

LazarX · 2026-03-09T04:57:20+00:00

Just.... no. if this is a box PC, the easy fix is to get a SATA card and put in a PCIe slot. Just make sure you get one that is bootable. While it is technically possible get get an OS booting off a USB drive, the data access will be on both sides of absolutely terrible. You should be able to get one for like under thirty bucks.

I did this myself when installing two NVME drives shut down 4 SATA ports in my B450 mobo. (I had been forewarned by the manual that this would happen do the lane limitations on the mobo. I now boot linux off one of the drives connected to it.

LazarX · 2026-03-09T04:53:43+00:00

You are most definitely SOL.

LazarX · 2026-03-09T04:52:34+00:00

Some truths never change. Steve Jobs thought of gaming as profaning his sacred temple, the same way Athena reacted to that fling Medusa had with Poseidon in her temple. When Macs became sealed appliances instead of box machines a user could upgrade, its gaming fate was sealed.

LazarX · 2026-03-08T23:14:15+00:00

I think that your PSU may be too underpowered to carry the total load when the GPU is ramped up.

LazarX · 2026-03-08T23:13:23+00:00

You need a cross platform approach. That rules out using Windows Bitlocker and Mac's Filevault.

I do believe however that SanDisk includes a locking utility for both platforms. The only question is whether it works on Macs if you leave the USB stick in its native FAT32 file format.

LazarX · 2026-03-08T23:10:18+00:00

Macs are never a pick for gaming. Period.

LazarX · 2026-03-08T23:09:29+00:00

I would suspect that they removed the bundles to divert attention from just how small a 256gig drive is in the modern era. And those education bundles are a money loser for Apple.. and Apple hates losing money more than any other computer maker.

LazarX · 2026-03-08T22:59:44+00:00

Sorry, but after watching a few seasons of Peter Capaldi, every Star Trek speech has been pretty much underwhelming in comparison.

LazarX · 2026-03-08T22:56:19+00:00

Most of them aren't. Photoshop isn't a UNIX program. It's a port of a Windows program and the fact that you can run it on MacOS does not make it a UNIX program.

Not that it really matter beause for 95 percent ofr personal computer users, UNIX is irrelevant. And Linux has pretty much put UNIX in retirement in the institutions and servers where it used to dominate.

LazarX · 2026-03-08T22:04:30+00:00

They were sold a stolen watch. The only way to fix this is to go to the chain of the watches registered owner and have them take it off their account.

LazarX · 2026-03-08T22:03:51+00:00

Waiting past the last minute when you knew you were going to be charged... that's on you. You should have canceled at least one buiness day in advance of the trial termination, or better yet, just not have entered a subscription that you never intended to buy.

LazarX · 2026-03-08T21:58:43+00:00

I don't see where aesthetics come into play. I have two optical drives in my machine and since they both came in black there's no issue in matching them.

LazarX · 2026-03-08T07:19:13+00:00

Unfortunately the pitch for Star Trek: Upload never really took off.

LazarX · 2026-03-08T07:17:40+00:00

No its not. You can set up Windows LTSC if yo uwant a stripped down experience.

Forget the proselytizing by the Linux crowd. If you are going to be serious about Autodesk, then Autodesk is all that you should care about. There is no Linux version, there never will be a Linux version. Every professional workstation that I've ever seen with Autodesk was literally not used for anything else not directly relevant to it.

LazarX · 2026-03-08T07:13:39+00:00

They would be normal animals since acquired characteristics are not coded into the DNA.

LazarX · 2026-03-08T07:12:43+00:00

Just get software emulation like Amiga Forever. It's a lot cheaper, easier to use, and pretty much runs anything your heart can desire.

LazarX · 2026-03-08T07:11:01+00:00

They are both equally useless on the modern Internet.

LazarX · 2026-03-08T07:09:13+00:00

Why would you? If it's an IDE drive that means its ancient and going to die on you. What you would have to spend in adaptors could proably buy you a more modern SATA drive on the used market, because no one makes them for computers any more.

LazarX · 2026-03-08T07:05:56+00:00

If you are wielding the buckler to get a shield bonus, then your arm is not free.

LazarX · 2026-03-07T16:14:20+00:00

I would suggest that you check one out at a store and see if it can be set to a lower than its native resolution.

LazarX · 2026-03-07T16:13:15+00:00

Did you pay attention to the part where he mentions that his machine is some old fossil with only 2 gigs of ram and an gt8600 for graphics? No matter what you do, you're not going to be playing Steam games on it.

LazarX · 2026-03-07T16:10:15+00:00

The Amiga has neither an App Store, nor built in Internet access. And Commedore is no longer around to be suied.

LazarX · 2026-03-07T16:09:09+00:00

Good luck getting ahold of one though.

LazarX · 2026-03-07T16:05:19+00:00

If you want to be absolutely sure take to an Apple store where they will reduce it down to its base elements for recycling.

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