Thinking of problems before falling asleep does sometimes help me in finding solutions in a dream. Though I may still be half awake when doing this.

It's a well known technique. I first heard about it from Barbara Oakley, so there is probably some neuroscience research done about it.

That may be related or not to the article but Feynman for example wrote a lot about the miracles that the brain can do in the small moments between being awake and being asleep. He thought it unlocked some extra juice and tried to force himself to stay in that moment longer and then to wake up to take notes. You should look into it.

>Oh, not OS/2 Warp.

That would be awesome!

>The assembly seats in Brussels, so the decision comes from Brussels (geographically).

Except that half the time the assembly seats in Strasbourg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_of_the_European_Parliamen...

My first thought was "so they go commandline now?". Because X for me is still "the graphical interface".

> China has bought Tibet from the British

China invaded and annexed Tibet in 1951 [1].

You may be thinking of Hong Kong, which the British invaded and annexed from the Qing dynasty [2] and then handed back to China in 1997 [3] under conditions that Beijing defaulted on in 2019 [4].

> what have they done with Taiwan?

Same as America has been doing with Greenland.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Tibet_by_the_Peo...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Hong_Kong

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handover_of_Hong_Kong

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%932020_Hong_Kong_pr...

> You may be thinking of Hong Kong

No, I was thinking about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_Between_Great_Brita...

The way I understood this treaty was that the global powers in 1906 (Russia and Great Britain) accepted Tibet as part of China without the need for a war.

In the context of your comment, you say the US and Russia attack sovereign countries and you mention Tibet and Taiwan in the same sentence. Sorry but Taiwan has not been invaded by China, and Tibet was at the time internationally agreed as being part of China (not that I agree with that). Not the same ballpark sorry.

https://cobbaut.be personal homepage since 1997

European from Antwerp here. I only use two of those, and see more and more of my friends migrate away from some, albeit slowly.

I (also European), for one, find it virtually impossible to convince people to give up on most of those.

MS Outlook was a heaven for viruses.

Lotus (even before Notes) had cloud-like features for mail and worked on Windows and OS/2.

It also had a password dialog that showed fun hieroglyphs as you typed, instead of dots or asterisks. But, oops, those would change deterministically depending on what you typed.

> Then Thunderbird arrived on the scene

Apologies, but in my memory Thunderbird is just the new name for Netscape Mail. And Netscape mail, I believe, is older than Outlook.

I still have folders in my current Thunderbird that I created in Netscape (for example the 1996 folder that contains all mail from 1996).

Yeah, same with Firefox, to me it's just the new name for Netscape Navigator.

I still got some bookmarks carried over from Navigator... though I bet 95+% don't work anymore.

Back in 1995 it was, to my knowledge, the only OS capable of sharing CD-ROM's on the network. Even MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 machines could access it.

It was also capable of sharing Mainframe printers using a real null-printer-driver, which was not possible on Windows NT3.51 or NT4.0. Windows always messed with the Mainframe codes that it could not understand.

It was also easy to set up OS/2 as a gateway between different network hardware and protocols (Token Ring to Ethernet, or NetBios to IPX/SPX, ...)

It had REXX!

REXX was very powerful albeit a little quirky.

Novel Netware.