I still have 8" floppies somewhere (dual-sided, 360K no less), and the 50 lbs dual-drive that can read them. Of course, theyāve probably long since reverted to their unformated state - whatever was on them before.
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Oh ok. Didnāt know they were still around.
Well I shall give em a miss then shall I 
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No reason.
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A non-sequitur to nip a fledging pointless conversation on old IT tech in the bud maybe?
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Ok saving this for laterā¦
Nah, you are like part of the furniture, and you come across like a cyborg from way back.
What are you looking at getting?
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A Titan, a Walletmor and possibly an Apex when it comes out.
Like Rosco, Iām not much of a fan of getting cut open so I want to keep it to the necessary minimum 
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Just goes to show Cyborg is more a mentality and a passion than it is about physical attributes 
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The one thing that keeps me back quite a bit are the install costs. Here, only a surgeon is permitted to put things under the skin, and that costs $$$. And Iām not willing to pay more for the installs then for the implants themselves 
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Your issue is very similar as to why this thread even exists and why I started itā¦
I donāt HATE Windows 10, but also donāt love it.
However it is my daily driver.
I ended up installing a VM on my Windows 10, running Windows 7 so I could run my software.
So that could be an option for you also 
I did the same and also started off with Linux on a VM, so again another option for you 
I am definitely no expert. But you could also do these on a VM to take them for a ātest driveā
However
You could do this for quite cheap
I bought a PineBook for $200
I also had a Raspberry Pi $50
Both of those a great option ( But again I am No expert on Linux 
)
But my experiences, Grab a couple of SD cards and throw a different image on each, and It is as simple as inserting an SD card and turn on the computer, and you are up and running;ā¦ It really is that simple
Seriously reccomend.
And that is not a bad thing.
Soā¦ hereās my horror story about the last time I used Windows:
Was happily using windows 7. didnāt like Windows 8ās interface.
I also had some linux stuff on the side, but windows had been my main working & gaming platform for years, so it had all my personal docs.
Then it comes the time to upgrade to windows 10, a few years laterā¦
It was free if I upgraded from 7 to 8, then free again from 8 to 10. If I wanted to upgrade straight from 7 to 10 I had to pay more than a weekās worth of my paycheck!
So I did the 2 free upgrades, just to find out I lost access to ALL my files.
After a lot of fiddling I understood what went on:
On the upgrade into Windows 8, it automatically turned on the windows filesystem encryption.
On the upgrade to windows 10 something went fishy and my system key, used for that encryption, was overriden with another system key.
Now I had a lot of files encrypted with a key that no longer matched my new decryption key.
Support could not help me. I never seen those files again. I never voluntarily used windows again.
On the bright side, switching full-on to arch linux, my understanding of computer science skyrocketed!
You can make a live USB and boot it from there. no need to install, just to mess around with it ^^
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The donors are kept in different physical locations.
Iāve got a nice win7 machine as my main/entertainment in the living room.
Iāve got an older dell in the garden shed running the radio station.
I used to have a junker win 7 on my electronics bench.
I used to have a junker laptop win7 for random stuff.
Iām starting a small business and I want a physically separate machine for that. But it doesnāt need to be much. I mostly want access to craigslist and facebook (assumed name only) and donāt want to cross contaminate my regular machines. FB is invasive as all hell.
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Secret squirrel implant healing well
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I feel like heās poking it in Morse, but Iām too lazy to look it up
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Paging Dr. @anon3825968
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That sure looks like a nice big bruise. Poke a vein or something?
The prototype secret is out.
Obviously these new chips will be binary programmable meaning you can change UID with dash-dot / 1-0 pressure.
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U44I
Either itās a secret project code, or itās not morse code
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Obviously advertising the Zoom U-44 Handy Audio Interface. Cheeky!
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This right here is how projects get their names.
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