Lup Yuen Lee 李立源 @lupyuen@qoto.org

Can I recommend just two hashtags for all lovers of old computers (#retrocomputing) and for lovers of the games we play on them (#retrogaming)

There's a fair number of conversations with those hashtags on them, and people following those hashtags who will see your posts and engage with them.

Just for completeness: #commodore #appleii #c64 #trs80 #mo6502 #z80 #amstrad #sinclair

And if you like the 18 and 36 bit machines, or the 24 bit machines, perhaps #computerhistory and #vintagecomputers

Holy rockers! These dBase II covers!

With those, even kids today(tm) would read books again.

#retrocomputing

MS-DOS eclipsed CP/M-86, which may be little known even to retrocomputing enthusiasts.

This limited popularity makes it difficult to discover online resources on the operating system, particularly software. So I'm maintaining a list of CP/M-86 software repositories and collections:

https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/where-to-download-cp-m-86-software

#retrocomputing

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This was my first FreeBSD set, once upon a time. I still get nostalgic just thinking about it.

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@cstanhope @lupyuen Yeah, it's unfortunate. Many Flatpak advocates including myself characterize this issue as being part of a 'transition' in the Linux desktop: Many apps weren't built for the Flatpak sandbox, so they heavily demand permissions. With time, more will hopefully adjust their standards to comply.

I'll add an edit to the article that explicitly points out that while Flatpak has sandboxing capabilities and Flathub encourages people to use them, Flatpak itself doesn't mandate them.