I love the excess of the Y2K Era. Everything was so much more beautiful, unique, and strange. Everything after seemed like an attempt to "dial it back."
Manslaughter charges for the baby if childbirth kills the mother
This + some other quirks are what have kept me off KDE for a good while. I understand wanting to do things differently, possibly easier -- but it's hard to break old habits.
Spread the word of libreoffice for those who don't want the ms office subscription
I'm a big fan of the sniper elite series, but they may be a bit newer than what you are looking for.
It's curious to me if they could have deprecated and refused to support these features rather than take them out. They might run until they don't, ya know? When they did this last year and removed "let's play a game" my kid was pretty bummed that we couldn't have game show games on road trips anymore. I'm sure these things may disappoint some people.
Around 03/04 - Near the Eiffel tower - walked into a restaurant, asked for the restroom, was sent down the stairs, found the door had one of those things like a gumball machine on it where you put coins in and turn the handle to unlock the door. The urgency I had to go forced me to pay for it, go in the bushes outside (police everywhere), or go in my pants.
I've used one in paris. Had to put .50 euro in the coin slot on the door in order to get in and stand over a hole in the floor.
My understanding is they're going to recycle it into useful products but I don't believe they've perfected the process yet.
I'll carry the odd opinion here and say there's actually a way this could be useful. You have to add value to a product to make it worth your time and effort, increase adoption, and make it at least self-sustainable. Find reasons to justify why this should exist. For a start - This could save time on projects where similar data has to be loaded on a page from multiple api endpoints but it doesn't match. - an old example, but one that I fought once - looking up the time zone of a city from one api, then the time offset from UTC from another api, and trying to relate it all together. That meant my functions had to match that data up on the client side because there were imperfect text matches.
As a second example, if you were able to cache or keep record of data from upstream endpoints that often takes a while to gather because they can't/won't, you might offer a performance advantage or datasets which were previously unavailable to a user without monitoring data coming from that API over an extended period of time.
There's more you can do, but that hinges again on what I previously said, find your pitch and solve problems that the others have created and won't fix.
It was really helpful to me when i took it. All the loud thoughts running at once got quiet and I felt like I could focus on one thing at a time, however, you still need to practice discipline and priorities to get it right. I could get distracted on the wrong thing without a thought of needing to pivot. Stopped taking it due to some allergy issues and we had to rule out everything.
I'm cool with this, I don't need these articles telling me about musk/zucc/spez running the old platforms into the ground anymore. It's stuck in the past and ragebait. I think it's best to look forward. Walking away from old platforms completely means not letting them live rent-free in our heads anymore.
Admit it by Say Anything The Noose by A Perfect Circle Never there, rock and roll lifestyle, or Walk on By by Cake (they do this a lot) Kiss me I'm shitfaced by Dropkick Murphys Save Tonight - eagle eye cherry The Most Beautiful Girl (in the room) - Flight of thr Conchords
Check out the Sniper Elite series. The most recent games have a good, challenging, and engaging Stealth mechanic to them.
Most new projects / experiments would run under a directory for a testing subdomain that was already established for the sake of saving the most time. I once asked for and was granted access to our company's DNS server and outside provider for setting these up if needed. Otherwise it was editing the local hosts file on my machine or doing that for a different user for collaboration purposes. Looking back, I probably could have scripted these host file edits but didn't need to this very often.