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Tube🌞Time

there are three lessons here:
1. internet search has been made nearly completely useless by SEO spam and autogenerated websites.
2. never trust proprietary software. use open source software or software that generates human readable files.
3. maybe print out your important documents

8 comments
Funky Bob

@tubetime It's also not helped by search engines being manic about guessing what you really meant, rather than ever believing you might want to find _exactly_ what you searched for.

Owen Mehegan

@tubetime
I'm pretty sure I can still open the papers I wrote in Abiword as an English major 20 years ago... I should check that and maybe convert them to rtf.

computerywar

@tubetime
Perhaps the shareware installer contained in this bin file will help?
archive.org/details/computer20

I'd probably run this in a VM since its possible that it could have some unsavory additions...

jz.tusk

@tubetime

Pour one out for all the RealPlayer files that people saved from Web 1.0.

FantasmitaAsex :heart_ace:

@tubetime actually Duck Duck Go works better than Google and Bing .

Tube🌞Time replied to FantasmitaAsex

@FantasmitaAsex i had nearly identical results/issues with ddg.

zbrando

@tubetime I would say that more than proprietary software the problem is the proprietary file format.

F4GRX Sébastien

@tubetime 3 and a half - use standard file formats.

I tried to understand the file format of cubase 7. It's an undescript rude goldberg machine made of AIFF chunks!

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