While he is a bit snobby and complaints too much, you can't deny he really envisioned huge amount of things to come. His imagination is next to none, and probably some things he described we will see only in the distant future, or maybe during the singularity, if it happens.

We created it around 2004, for Windows XP. Used Borland C++ and Windows driver for LPT port. Driver was written in asm, just for fun.

Since then, factory changed hands two times, and relocated from EU to China. 20 years, and Windows app still is working. I think they ran it on even on windows 98 at first.

I probably will only need to return newest laptop if I leave the company.

Since the Ukrainian war, new twist emerged. Authorities in Baltics did not care that much about piracy. But they do care about Russian state propaganda, which is absolutely widespread in Russian speaking households. In this case, they quickly put people in prison for helping to install and subscribe to Russian tv channels, which are banned in Baltics.

Sad thing is, many of us are victims of this situation, because parents might be zombified and ask for Russian TV, while children have nausea and hate thinking about it. Still, to avoid our parents be put in prison trying to do it themselves or be scammed, we have to do it ourselves.

I don't see solution to this.

P. S. Ironically, a lot of Ukrainians use the same services to watch content in their native Russian. Many of them are brainwashed so much they watch Russian state channels living under bombings.

If we were to believe the government, you should not be able to avoid sanctions. So, maybe you should not blindly trust government when it says Bitcoin is ah so bad because it it used by darknet markets.

I don't know shit about Pinterest, but it looks insane.

The only thing that helps now are opioids in dosages nobody would prescribe. I was prescribed opioids at some point during these years, and I still don't know if this was a mistake by the doctor. Now I am in pain AND opioid-dependent. But I am not sure I would not have ended my life sooner if not for the temporary relief I had.

The government does not allow me to get a few years of better quality life in return for dying early from an overdose, etc. I am bitter about it, and often wish government officials had the pain I do. Maybe I did not do enough, or people close to me could have been more pressing in asking to do more earlier. That's a consequence of a culture where people don't get into other people's business. I sometimes hope it is not too late still, but everything is harder now, and I still don't have any good ideas or the willpower to execute them.