Thank you for your detailed explanation and the wiki link 🙂. Good to hear that this (side-) topic is on the agenda.

As mentioned, I really appreciate your work around education and awareness of FOSS principles and chances
and I wish you a nice (remaining) Software Freedom Day.

Looks like a really nice and useful initiative.

Thank you very much for sharing, this page is really great!

Yes indeed. It would also work (at least similarly) for the VIC-20 and other Commodore computers 🧑‍🏫

Or ... 99 has a more uncommon meaning for me 🤓

(in reality the hardware in question was brand new hottest stuff when I was young)

I know what you mean, but who are this "double click" and "exe" guys?

• Press RUN/STOP and SHIFT.

• PRESS PLAY ON TAPE

• Press PLAY on tape.

• OK
  SEARCHING
  FOUND Ultimate Game II

• Take walk with the dog.
• Play game.

Do you mean that the filesystem itself had optimization so that searching from the command line (find, grep) was fast?

Or do you think more into the direction of the desktop apps Finder and Librarian?

At least I remember the Librarian.app was great for indexing and quickly searching through large amount of texts (from various formats).

Thanks alot for the details.

Very interesting, I did not know that the Mac SE/30 and the (cheapest) NeXTstation had comparable prices.

What I knew (for here in Germany) was that PCs were expensive (compared to today), but much cheaper than the Macs and NeXTs.

If you want to play around with NeXTstep or OpenStep today, I can recommend the following starting points and tools:

• NeXT Computers forum and its download section
• Previous emulator for emulating black NeXT hardware (m68k) | Releases | Source 1 | Source 2 | Development
• VirtualBox for emulating white NeXT hardware (intel) | Video: Installing OpenStep in VirtualBox

Here you can take a look at the NeXTstation brochure, it is mentioning your price of $5,000 on the last page.

Do you by any chance know what around the same time the costs for a "normal" PC was? Just to get an idea about the difference.

please see this comment above

All my real daily-use archivers were not listed in the poll, except 7zip.
Had to select "Other", but meant: gzip, xz, bzip2, unrar, rar and zip.

MetaGer is a German meta search engine (utilizing several search engines in the back). UI and results are of course available in many languages.

https://metager.org | https://metager.de

From their About page:

What makes MetaGer special?

MetaGer is different from other search engines. This is reflected not only in our public good orientation and focus on privacy, but also through some unique features:

• Possibility of creating a personal blacklist
• Function of the search in the search
• Advertising-free search possible
• Integration of search engine projects like YaCy
• The only German search engine that combines results from several large web indexes
• And much more..

What We Stand For

Guaranteed Privacy

Data protection and privacy are important to us. That's why we don't track or store personal data and offer several services to protect your privacy, for example our anonymizing proxy ("Open Anonymously" feature).

Non-Profit Association

MetaGer is a project of the non-profit association SUMA-EV, Association for Free Access to Knowledge. SUMA-EV is primarily committed to promoting media literacy.

Diverse and Free

MetaGer produces diverse results because it is a metasearch engine. We have explained exactly what this means in our transparency statement. By publishing our source code, we show that free access to knowledge is important to us. Our source code is free and open source.

100% Renewable Energy

Sustainability and resource consumption is also a big issue for us. Therefore we pay attention to the energy consumption of our services and only use electricity from renewable energy sources.

Ein Update von https://feddit.de/post/3383520 bzw. https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/verbraucher/balkonkraftwerke-100.html vom 13.09.2023:

[...]
Außerdem sollen weniger Angaben verlangt werden im sogenannten Marktstammdatenregister, in dem Anlagen zur Gas- und Stromerzeugung registriert sind. Balkonkraftwerke sollen in Zukunft zudem mit einem Schuko-Stecker angeboten werden, der in haushaltsübliche Steckdosen passt.

Ein Update von https://feddit.de/post/3383520 bzw. https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/verbraucher/balkonkraftwerke-100.html vom 13.09.2023:

Die Bundesregierung will die Installation von sogenannten Balkonkraftwerken erleichtern und hat dafür Änderungen im Miet- und Wohnungseigentümerrecht beschlossen. Damit sollen Menschen ohne ein eigenes Haus künftig leichter eine kleine Solaranlage auf dem Balkon ihrer Wohnung anbringen können.

Der Gesetzentwurf sieht vor, dass die Stromerzeugung durch Steckersolargeräte in den Katalog der sogenannten privilegierten Maßnahmen aufgenommen wird. Das sind bauliche Veränderungen, die von Vermietern und Wohnungseigentümergemeinschaften (WEG) nicht einfach blockiert werden können. Bislang gehören zu diesem Katalog der Umbau für Barrierefreiheit, E-Mobilität, Einbruchschutz und Telekommunikation.

If you are unhappy with suggested XSane, but only want an OSS solution, I do not know a good alternative.

Rugby ist toll, wir haben das gerne bei den olympischen Spielen geschaut. Vielen Dank fürs Teilen.
Ich hoffe es ist in Ordnung, wenn ich nach "Sport" cross-poste.

We always liked the Syberia series alot. Aside from all the Lucas Arts classics, we also (very) enjoyed playing the following 90/2000 (style) adventures:

• The Broken Sword series
• Broken Sword 2.5: The Return of the Templars | Download free version
• Runaway: A Road Adventure
• Runaway 2: The Dream of the Turtle
• Thimbleweed Park
• Edna & Harvey: The Breakout
• Edna & Harvey: Harvey's New Eyes

Historic

• Flight of the Amazon Queen | Free at GOG
• Touché: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer
• Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet
• Ankh | Ankh: Heart of Osiris | Ankh: Battle of the Gods

Fantasy, fairy tales

• Discworld
• Discworld 2: Missing Presumed...!?
• Inherit the Earth
• The Simon the Sorcerer series - mainly part 1 and 2
• The Legend of Kyrandia
• The Legend of Kyrandia: Hand of Fate
• The Legend of Kyrandia: Malcolm's Revenge
• The Book of Unwritten Tales
• The Book of Unwritten Tales 2
• The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles
• The Whispered World

SciFi

• Machinarium
• Blade Runner
• Floyd - The Feeble Files
• Deponia | Chaos on Deponia | Goodbye Deponia | Deponia Doomsday
• Kaptain Brawe: A Brawe New World
• Beneath a Steel Sky | Free at GOG

Same for me with uBlock Origin, until I have updated to version 1.51.0