Thank you for making these courses, Gary! Definitely useful and obviously high-quality.

One request: Would you be willing to use "person" instead of "guy" in universal cases like this?

I don't think Windows95 compares very favorably even with System 7.

They both certainly had different requirements and restrictions, but the Mac interface elements were a lot more elegant and the palette was a lot gentler. It also annoyed me that windows apps had a menu bar and the OS had inserted the start bar. Not to mention the confusing file browser, drive names, etc.

The best monitor is the LG 34WK95U

The best cheap monitor is the Nixeus Vue 27D

I really hated my P2715Q because it is too small for native 4k resolution (everything is tiny) and too large for 2x resolution (everything is huge)

The Wirecutter recommends the HP Z27n: https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-27-inch-monitor/

You'll notice that the "Mark Rothko" account has a creation time of just after Andrew Hersh's first comment and has only commented on this story.

Mark Rothko is a Jewish visual artist frequently cited as "degenerate" by racist trolls online. That makes any of their comments here deeply suspect.

I'm surprised (though I suppose I shouldn't be) that anyone would consider Andrew's comment high-five worthy or "amicable"

It's pretty strident, and it seems like Andrew is eager to take offense, imagine he's being excluded, and reactively judge the report before he's even seriously engaged with it.

DesignerNews notes in its comment placeholder text to "Be nice, or else" but it's clear that Andrew is escaping any consequences for his obviously "not nice" comment.

A small minority of highly-vocal white supremacists almost always tries to dominate discussions of race and gender online using toxic tactics like this, and it's incredibly charitable of Sarah to take the time to patiently explain the report.

Sarah, please know that the vast majority of people understand that diversity and inclusion are important, and see comments like Andrew's as blatant attempts to reinforce inequality and exclude women and people of color from the workplace, and from positions of influence in society.

These logos seem to all be for industrial products used by the working classes as they go about their labours, or inexpensive household products purchased with meagre wages.

My 9 year-old cousin loved playing ZG: Revenant when I saw him at a wedding last weekend.

27" is a terrible size for 4k displays. At native resolution everything is too small, and at 2x it's cartoonishly large.

I'd recommend a 34" or 38" ultrawide display

Source: Have used 27" 4k and 5k displays, as well as standard-res 24" displays.

256 color is a limitation of the GIF format:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF

+1 for Pinboard. It's one of the few services on the web that actually has badass politics too, and is totally open-web supportive.