All things come to an end, and human created things rarely last a century, much less 5 centuries, usually within a couple/few decades at most.
Computer hardware and software are one of the more transient things we do. That's why I love to use servers that have started to become obsolete, they work well enough they'll probably out live me at this point, and they are available cheaply because
the big data centers tend to replace them every few years as the newer ones do more work per watt. For me, running one is a cheaper way to get major performance. But I know the parts will eventually be hard to get.
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Aug 14, 2024, 16:25 by
alonzotg@verizon.net:
I'm still using seamonkey as my e-mail as I have been doing with it and its predecessors since 1998....
I am using the symlink trick to exploit the magic of dynamic linking to get the stale build of seamonkey to run against the updated library. I would like it to be able to build again at some point.
Furthermore any replacement of seamonkey must do the following two things:
1. not cause me a headache. (reeeealy hard.)
2. Come with a perpetual warranty, if I am reincarnated 500 years from now, I'm going to be pissed if I'm going to have to learn a new email client.
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