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|    Dick_Holder to Aragorn    |
|    Re: Marek says "hi"    |
|    22 Dec 22 12:58:36    |
      From: dick_holder@man.invalid              On 12/21/2022 1:31 AM, Aragorn wrote:       > On 20.12.2022 at 19:08, stepore scribbled:       >       >> On 12/19/22 23:50, Aragorn wrote:       >>> Greetings everyone,       >>>       >>> As the title of this thread says, our old friend Marek Novotny has       >>> requested that I'd say "hi" to the people he knew while he was a       >>> Usenet       >>       >> Good to know Marek is ok. Hope he's doing well.       >       > He is, yes, but he's living a very different life now. ;)              Once one stops tinkering all day with Linux, life gets simpler ;)              >> And I don't mean to hijack the thread but I hope Cybe R. Wizard is       >> still around somewhere. Haven't heard from him for a long long while       >> either, just seemed to vanish too.       >       > I haven't seen the Wiz in a long time anymore either, or for that       > matter, Wildman, who rewrote one of Marek's scripts in Python, I think.              Cyber Nancy figured out spell/grammar checking Usenet wasn't quite as       needed as it once was ;-)              > I was thinking about all of this just the other day.       >       >>> Marek is not monitoring Usenet anymore, and he's also not even using       >>> GNU/Linux anymore. He got himself an off-the-shelf laptop with       >>> MS-Windows       >>       >> I mean... I get not wanting to be on Usenet anymore, but not using       >> Linux? No excuse for that. And Windows now! Only adds insult to       >> injury. :-)       >       > I told him that too. I mean, Windows? How low can you go? :p :p       >              Windows 11 is damned good, stable, dominating.       Lots of people see the light... the struggle isn't worth it.              No need to answer, just joking.       I remember many of those posters from years ago.       I always liked mach2 better than Marek ;)              --       M15r6        i7-11800H        16GB RAM        RTX 3060        240 Hz Display              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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