Why does this link to Perplexity?

Why not open the link and find out?

Sorry, that was an honest question. I wasn't trying to be snarky. I did open the link but I wasn't sure why the poster didn't use an original news source. I thought perhaps there was a reason. My apologies if it was a dumb question.

We have exited the age of information, and entered the age of irritation.

"Rage bait" is 2025 Oxford Word of the Year. We are reaching saturation levels now, I think, where people are becoming aware of it.

https://corp.oup.com/news/the-oxford-word-of-the-year-2025-i...

Exposure is a good first step. But what action is taken with that awareness? We seem to be in that post truth era where being told what's happening before your eyes is at best met with apathy and at worst rejected.

I'm glad people are aware of it. 7 years I heard about The Scissor on SSC and wasn't sure if people would ever believe it: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/10/30/sort-by-controversial/

I had one of the Panasonic models a long time ago, and I used to love typing with it.

I didn't have a reliable source for pen cartridges though, so I usually saved it for things that were "important" at the time.

Everything else was typed on an IBM Wheelwriter, which in my mind is still the pinnacle of typewriter technology.

Supposedly you can still order the film ribbon cartridges for them online.

Yeah, I had one when I was going to a community college in the 80's. I think I got it because it was actually less expensive than some other standard kind of electric typewriter.

Man, I wish I still had it now seeing all the plotter functionality that I was not taking advantage of…

I had a plotter that took these pens. I couldn't afford to buy new pens, so I sawed one in half and soldered a threaded insert in to make a cap, so I could refill it. Refilling worked, though wasn't as reliable as a new pen.

I actually did this just a few weeks ago. I was hunting for a shareware card game from 25 years ago. The installer was buried in a shareware DVD image; I could tear out the installer but of course couldn't run it.

W98+DosBox-X did the job. With a sufficiently powerful machine, the phony system was at least as speedy as machines of the era. And there are enough tweaks to speed up the boring parts. That one worked so well, I tried some demos from that time frame, and most did fine.

Once you set the dynamic core, it runs many times faster than PCEM and 86BOX or whatever is called today.