[you do, you’ll turn off Microsoft Bing Search for Chrome and lose access to Bing AI with GPT-4 and DALL-E 3.]
That just makes me to turn it off even more.
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Unfortunately nowadays Web Browsers need regular updates to keep your safer while browsing online. That means you tend to be limited to forks of Chromium and Firefox. Seamonkey is unfortunately a mess and noob unfriendly even it it still has a 32 bit version and does get updates once in a while and it uses less ram that Firefox or Chrome/Chromium.
Basilisk got new owners so you may want to give it a try and look at the source code to see if it fits your needs and it is safe enough. Strangely the source code url still says palemoon despite the change in ownership...
To give you an idea the recently revived Damn Small Linux takes more Ram doing nothing but running the Desktop that the Plus version of Tiny Core does!
Heck in theory Tiny Core should work on a machine with only 256 of Ram but you would be limited on what you can run.
Be aware however that these type of Linux distros are usually no good for being online all day due to updates not being as frequent as other more used Linux distros. Even if you somehow put a modern Web browser that has frequent updates using Flatpak or something like that, that does nothing for the rest of the distro.
Still really useful to revive old machines or machines with pitiful hardware. Any of those "Only 4 GB of Ram" Windows 10/11 deals fly using Tiny Core, just close the window, you don't look respectable chasing after a flying computer!
At this point they may as well add a disclaimer that "This Chatbot is not a reliable news source, if you want to fack check something use something else" and be done with it. Because AI chatbots aren't made to give accurate information. Even those limited chatbots that use on Whatsapp or company websites end giving away false information. There have even been lawsuits about that!
If we feed Chatbots on Social Media they end with information as accurate as you can find in social media and social media IS NOT a reliable news source.
If you don't mind being a social pariah offline, start to sell however tries to sell you something about "A religious retreat you are going next weekend" that includes such marvels as waking up one hour before sunrise, hard breaking labour, praying for two hours in the morning and two in the afternoon, no alcohol or smoking, no tech of any kind and a nearby hill blocking cell phone reception.
[The publisher's internal photographer (this was the Nineties, when publishers had more money)]
Actually it was because screenshot programs didn't became common until like... windows 3.x? There was probably a DOS screenshot program somewhere but I definitely never used one. Some MS-DOS programs allowed you to take screenshots with the press of a button on the keyboard or a combination of them but not all of them.
Lisp sounds something I would have liked to learn if I was born about two decades earlier that I was. Then again my Interest in computers started with Videogames and I think that if I was born two decades earlier I would have got way more into Pinball Machines that computers cause money dear boy.
Unix got beaten by Linux cause you can't get cheaper that free. Oh you can try but actually paying people to use your stuff never works long term.
Since I was a kid (teen) what I most remember about 1995 is how 3D gaming was going to be the future, we would connect anywhere in the world to play games online, and that 2D games were doomed to die. Computers? They were just the things not called Nintendo or Sega I used to play videogames and help me with schoolwork, this being 1995 said help came in the form of using Word or a CD based digital encyclopedia.
I did see a vision were we carried portable screens everywhere in the future but it was a PDA like thing of some sort, not a mobile phone.
What worries me the most about the modern internet is all the walled gardens and the fact a lot of people get their news from Social Media.
I miss Internet forums, they barely exist nowadays. I don't want to use Discord and Mastodon is not forum like enough for my taste.
Is actually quite easy to spam calls and texts from numbers that don't exist, it happens in a lot of countries including in Argentina.
Sim Farms use real phone numbers and sim chips are getting passed out of use in many parts of the world.
So they are basically banning something that won't be in used anyway in a decade or two.
I remember a case when it wasn't Excel but "something cheaper" so the instructions didn't quite work.
I just needed the sheet printed, for schoolwork, so I figured a way to make it work... by making someone else do it for me.
If I had to summit a file by floppy disk I would have been in trouble since again what we had at home wasn't Excel.