@davidrevoy Oooh, a cathode ray tube...
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So, I've been thinking about what to install on the #486DX that I fixed recently, and at first I'd thought I'd go with a period correct #MSDOS but then I reconsidered and had a look (in #86Box) at #FreeDOS, which I knew existed but had never used.@gmc @freedosproject it's a 486, so any old *BSD, Linux, or Unix will be period correct, while DOS was at that time in the process of disappearing behind Windows.
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The idea of using a grammar checker, even a self hosted "ethical LLM" horrifies me.@quixoticgeek long ago I was told by a teacher something along the lines of "creative writing is about knowing the rules of the language so well that you know exactly how to break them for the desired effect."
Imho this also applies to technical writing, though with stricter boundary conditions, which is why I was an avid reader of Stan Kelly-Bootle's columns. Blind use of spelling and grammar checkers is an excellent way to kill all that.