I thought AutoCAD was pretty much the industry standard for CAD unless something changed.

Some governments outside the US either already have or are ditching Windows for Linux.

In the US at least, the courts are seemingly bought out.

Icecat’s good too. In fact in some ways, eg. cutting Sync out entirely where LibreWolf disables it by default but lets you enable it if desired, it’s even better than LibreWolf.

From what I’ve seen from other YTers, a Q-tip and rubbing alcohol on the heads seems fine, TDNC and most retro computing creators do that with floppy drives frequently to good success and the same idea applies to tape deck heads.

The recommended way of cleaning fixed heads, no matter if on a tape deck or on a floppy drive, is to just use a Q-tip with rubbing alcohol.

Helical-scan head drums like on any VCRs or any camcorders that used tape to record to, or on DAT decks and some data tape drives which used helical-scan formats like DAT/DDS or Data8/AIT, for example, are more delicate and have different recommendations for manual cleaning.

LibreWolf, or if you can tolerate some breakage, PaleMoon or Basilisk (I say ‘if you can tolerate some breakage’ because Goanna is hard-forked from old ESR code, and PaleMoon and Basilisk are both Goanna-based).

Good thing LibreWolf and other forks exist, including hard forks like the Goanna browsers.

No it’s not, it’s based on BSD, or more specifically Darwin, which is derived from BSD, so Unix-like, but not Linux.

Although, oddly, macOS is a certified UNIX OS so it can rightfully sit at the table with the SysV distros such as AIX, HP-UX, or Solaris, but it’s nothing like those OSes in its nature.

Plus RawTherapee and DarkTable are pretty good, and actually free, Lightroom alternatives to boot.

Good thing whenever I set up Windows, Notepad is one of the things I nuke, using Geany to replace it.

This is a bad sign if MS gets emboldened and starts paywalling basic OS functionality at some point in the future, though.

Says the person who, along with his DOGE goon squad, is actively going out of his way to destroy his country…

Fooyin, VLC, and Kodi.

If this doesn’t help physical book sales, nothing will.

Because look who’s running it, that’s why. If Musk isn’t a full-blown Nazi, he’s at minimum a Nazi sympathizer, which is still really bad.

• ‘You can keep your old hardware, we won’t force you to upgrade.’
• ‘Your old GPU, yes, even your R9 Fury, still has a home here, don’t worry, we won’t leave you out in the cold unlike our competition.’

…Among other jabs at Windows in the spirit of the old Mac vs. PC ads, or to be more apt, in the spirit of Sega’s old ads picking on Nintendo in the '90s.

Also…

• ‘Linux does! What Windon’t.’

Void, and I really wanted to like it on account of not relying on systemd, but its package repos are too barren for me.

Like, Void’s repos are even more barren than EL’s stock repos before you add RPMFusion and EPEL among other third-party repos into it, and its AUR equivalent don’t help matters.

And Void’s musl port is even more limited than the glibc version because it doesn’t support multilib, so you can’t have Steam or WINE on Void musl, for example, while you could on the glibc version that supports multilib.

That depends, the Fallout and Elder Scrolls games are easily modded regardless of OS, and I’ve had good luck with HedgeModManager too for Sonic Generations, and even for Civ3, C3X fixes the black map bug however I haven’t found a good fix for the crackling and popping audio.

Canon’s recent paywalling behavior if other companies start copying them, would be a good argument for picking up film again if you don’t care about video capabilities and only need stills - due to film’s analog nature, it and the gear that uses it, is immune to paywalls/DRM, and you actually own hard copies of your shots to digitize at will to boot.

Also, don’t expect Kodachrome to ever be rebooted as its process, which was proprietary and thus died with that stock, was too complex to try and bring back in the present day (although some people have tried to reverse-engineer it to varying success before).

To add to this, the same advantages of being immune to paywalls/DRM and actually owning hard copies of your work that you can digitize at will also applies to, say, drawing using real materials vs. using a digital program - your paper and pencils/crayons/what-have-you will never be affected by paywalls/DRM as they’re analog in a sense as well, and you have a hard copy you can digitize at will.

I’m more of a proponent for running some Linux distro for my main OS and then virtualizing Windows if desired for things that are broken in WINE/Proton somehow but work fine in Windows, at this point.

I don’t trust Windows enough to run it baremetal in a dual-boot anymore though, virtualization at least isolates it from the host where it counts, where in a dual-boot, even if it generally doesn’t happen, there’s still the looming threat of Windows screwing up the Linux install somehow, where that isn’t a problem when virtualizing since, as I said, it’s isolated where it counts, even if paravirtualization is a thing for storage drivers and networking and the like, and hardware passthrough is a thing for things like GPUs.