And for the same reason they went straight from 2.1 3.x to 5.0 when they renamed .Net Core to just .Net. Versions 3.x and 4.x would have been too easy to confuse (either manually or programmatically) with the old .Net Framework versions that were still in use, especially for Desktop applications.
One example that I mentioned below are letters written on birch bark that were found in several places in Russia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch_bark_manuscript#Old_Slavonic_script. I'm not an expert but from the contents it seems like at least some of the authors were commoners.
Sources on literacy in Medieval Europe seem to be all over the place, reaching from the popular "Almost nobody could even sign their name" to "There was at least one person in most households who could read and write". Here's a discussion on Stackexchange that lists some sources.
The sad truth is, we may never know how literate people actually were. We can be relatively sure that especially poor people didn't have any formal education and couldn't afford expensive handwritten books. But that doesn't necessarily mean people couldn't read and write at all. A basic level of literacy was useful for a lot of people, especially craftsmen and traders. Not so much that they'd read and write whole books but enough for basic bookkeeping or passing notes to someone who lives in a neighboring village. The thing is, those are not the kind of things that would be preserved until today. Paper and parchment were too expensive for such trivialities but we have evidence from Russia that people wrote everyday correspondence on birch bark. With no need to store these writings, most people would have probably just reused whatever they were written on to light fires or just thrown them outside where they would decompose within a few weeks.
(this kind of ties into a fun fact about why so few authentic chainmail shirts have survived until today. Not because they got destroyed by rust but because after they lost their usefulness in early modern times, they were cut up and reused to scrub pots)
Something OP put in the title as clickbait and it's not even accurate. Ronald Reagan went out of office in 1989 while the video clearly states the OS used needs at least an Intel Pentium processor which was released in 1993.
All the bloat is a function of people not caring, and to some degree different requirements.
At the operating system level I would say the different requirements are probably the more relevant reason than people not caring. Modern operating systems, even ones optimized for weaker hardware, include a lot of stuff that was either not invented or at least not common in consumer PCs in the 80s and early 90s:
wifi
several encryption standards, especially TLS
many other network-related features; we're talking about a time before HTTP and most other modern protocols were invented
support for multi-core CPUs or even multi-tasking at all
modern memory management (paging, virtual memory, swapping...)
USB
proper audio output instead of just a few predefined channels
much more complicated video output
drivers for all the most common hardware so you can just install it and go
...
And that's not even talking about people expecting a modern-looking desktop environment, web browser, file browser, image viewer, text editor and so on. The linux kernel is modular so if you compile your own, you can disable a lot of stuff that you don't need to save space and with something written specifically for those old machines, you can strip out even more stuff you don't need.
That being said, the thread title is very misleading. In the video he states the OS he uses works on the original Pentium processor which came out in 1993. Four years after Reagan went out of office.
I host my own GitLab so using its web IDE is an option. A proper offline solution for mobile would be cool though, especially because situations in which I don't have my laptop with me tend to overlap with situations where I don't have a proper internet connection, especially on local trains.
Even more so when you consider that my initial impulse to set it up was to be a better host when my friends visit. Like the stereotype of staff at high end restaurants and hotels taking notes on their guests' preferences. I kept forgetting important stuff like allergies and now with the wiki, I have everyone's favorite drinks and snacks ready, plan dinner that everyone likes, that kind of stuff.
From there it was just a tiny step to use the wiki to keep track of other stuff that would otherwise sit in the back of my brain or in some badly-maintained list until I forget.
Do you have a good app to edit that on mobile? I remember that I've looked into that before (more for a jekyll blog than notes but same idea) and I couldn't find anything that I liked...
... which is something I could add to my open questions article!
For the most time I just kept tabs open or used the post save feature in Reddit, Mastodon and Lemmy. That way I collected dozens if not hundreds of things that were vaguely interesting but I never got around to looking at them anyomere and when I was looking for something specific I had to check multiple places, each with less than optimal search functions.
Last year I decided to just create a personal wiki. MediaWiki is FOSS, easy to set up (especially with docker), accessible from all my devices and has a huge community because of Wikipedia. I have specific articles for different topics:
a list of things I might want to buy at some point
lists for books, movies, shows and games I want to read/watch/play in the future
a whole category of cooking recipes in a format that's more readable than the original versions where you have to scroll through ten pages of the author's life story, translated into my native language and with notes on what I changed from the original
articles for projects or questions that I never quite solve ("Where to buy custom printed LEGO minifigs?", "What scripting languages are easy to embed in a C# project?", "What's that weird bug that causes zfs to throw errors when my HDDs take a bit too long to wake up from sleep?") with partial answers.
articles about my friends with some basic facts like birthday, favorite color, favorite animals, allergies and things we'd like to do together at some point
and many more
Whenever I find an interesting link, I check if I already have an article that it fits into and if not, I create one. That way everything is roughly grouped by topic, I can leave notes and I have a nice search function and even a history that keeps references to stuff I edited or deleted.
Edit: the downside is that saving a link takes a bit longer, especially when I'm on my phone. Because of that I occasionally still save links the way I used to and if I still think they're relevant after a few days, I move them to the wiki.
I feel like my comment is the only one that even attempts to answer the question.
Pretty predictable though. Lemmy is even less mainstream than Mastodon so I would expect most people here to be way outside mainstream social media's target audience.
I haven't been active on Twitter / X for years. My last proper tweet was in November 2022 when I asked people to follow me on Mastodon instead.
I still have my account though. Mostly because friends occasionally send me links to news tweets that X won't show me without being logged in. And because customer support for some service providers (especially DHL, GLS and some other logistics companies) suddenly gets a lot more helpful when you complain in public instead of calling them and they don't have Mastodon accounts.
There have been a bunch of experiments on YouTube and the shortest I've seen is about five months non-stop of showing the same frame with most saying it's over a year. So with normal use it should be fine for a few decades.
What do you mean you "don't have any actual on paper proof"? I'm not too familiar with American law and such but don't you have a contract that states what your starting salary should be? A promise that's not put into writing and signed by your boss probably isn't worth anything.
To get a bit closer to your question: be friendly, ask if there has been a mistake or if you might have misunderstood the agreement. Only imply they're doing this on purpose if you're willing to leave the company if things go wrong.
Core rules as paperback and PDF. Note that the paperback is a scaled down (6"x8") version of the 8"x11" hardcover which I can't find for sale anymore so only buy that if you're okay with relatively small text.
Drivethru is the publisher's official partner for the digital versions so they have everything that's available. The official wiki has all the rules without the fluff while Wiki Aventurica has world descriptions and a list of available source books..
Edit: just found out that the English version of Wiki Aventurica has very little content compared to the German version. The official rules wiki is still usable though.
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And for the same reason they went straight from
2.13.x to 5.0 when they renamed .Net Core to just .Net. Versions3.x and4.x would have been too easy to confuse (either manually or programmatically) with the old .Net Framework versions that were still in use, especially for Desktop applications.