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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Shutdown - 25 Years Later
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2025 05:09:44 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-04-19, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
> On 4/18/25 20:35, rbowman wrote:
>> On Fri, 18 Apr 2025 21:07:41 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:
>> 
>>> The "one size fits all" GUI that Windows and Ubuntu was trying to push
>>> on their customers was stupid. A smartphone and a tablet are used
>>> differently than a desktop or laptop. I remember seeing the ads for
>>> Windows 8 where a person is sitting at a desk, keyboard and mouse in
>>> front of him or her and, instead of using the mouse (or keyboard) they
>>> awkwardly reach across the desk and tap the screen. With the Windows
>>> tablets their ads were showing off add-on membrane keyboards.
>> 
>> https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/collections/surfacekeyboard?
>> icid=Surface_Acc_Cat_R1CP2_ProflexKeyboard
>> 
>> Oh, you wanted a keyboard with that? Here's a nice one for $399.99.
>
> The worst part is that those keyboards are absolutely awful. I had one 
> on the Surface RT I recycled for my father-in-law. Typing on that is a 
> miserable experience. I imagine that is what the Atari 400 felt like.

Yeah, they look like membrane keyboards, like my Timex-Sinclair 1000 had in 
the early 1980s. I bought a chicklet keyboard that glued on my keyboard — 
that worked much better, but still not a "real" keyboard.

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“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy 
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien