Ah. Yes, it appears I’ve been using the ESU option. That was the simplest thing to do.
I use the registration utility from massgrave, added 3 years to my registration.

https://massgrave.dev/windows10_eol

But right there on that page, they cover Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021.
It sounds like that’s what I need. Stripped down Win10. I like that idea.
Thanks, friend.

I like dark absurdity. Good job.

Oh god. This is gonna get weird …

Do ya think this guy is actually a replacement?
Like, they got him. He’s on life support somewhere, having his brain sucked out.
This is a droid. He’s gonna go join some subversive movement and report them to Google.

The find and replace is based off of the Notepad interface.
It does support searching for newlines and such, but it doesn’t look like it does full regex.

This is the first I’ve heard of EditPadLite. From a cursory examination of their site, it appears to be written with the same general design philosophy as Metapad, albeit not as low profile. I’ll give it a tentative thumbs up.
The EditPadLite download is 18mb. My copy of Metapad is 190k. Small and fast.

Back in the old Web 1.0 days I used to label my websites “Coded by Notepad.exe”.
Well, you couldn’t pay me to use today’s Notepad. But Metapad fills that gap perfectly.

I have a laptop still running Win10. I’ll look into this. Thx.

Everyone had Doom, because it was shareware. You could play the first 7 levels or some shit for free. Given that most people died well before that, it was a pretty good deal. Doom was on every computer.
Much respect to your old man passing the torch. Game on, friend.

Hmm. This is what mine looks like.

Did you do any old Classic Mac gaming? Do you remember Pathways Into Darkness?
I don’t think it had mouselook. It was all keys. Damned difficult game that I finished right as I was becoming a mouser on other more modern games.

That’s a fuken UNIT. Cool!

Yes. Metapad is too dumb for that shit. By design.
It’s only barely smart enough to be better than Notepad.
It’s not smart enough to do anything dumb.

Its free, extremely mature, and you already know how to use it.
Metapad is a feature-for-feature drop-in replacement for Notepad.

Well, I’m pretty sure it left us in a yard sale when we moved out of state.
By then I was all about my TI 99/4a. Rockin my tape drive. Writing my first games in line-number BASIC.

I miss oldskool Notepad being present on the system. Win11 Notepad is a worthless piece of shit.
But … any computer or vm that I use for more than a few hours gets a copy of Metapad.

I’ve been using Metapad for … umm … decades.
Metapad is a simple, extremely lightweight editor, intended to just barely be better than Notepad, fixes a lot of shit that MS never did and stays simple.
https://liquidninja.com/metapad/

I’ve chewed on Gidney’s ‘Falling with Style’ paper.
I recommend reading it if you would like to understand Shor’s Algorithm.

I’m somewhat unclear if the following applies to Shor’s Algorithm in general, or just the modified version used for the experiment.
But I’ve come to understand that the algorithm is a recursive series of steps, structured such that it will eventually factor anything.
Like … it could take longer than the age of the universe for some numbers, but the algorithm will do the job if you got enough cycles to spare.

What we are looking for here is quantum supremacy, and once Gidney has explained this much, its obvious from the graph above that we are not seeing it. Pure random noise outperformed the quantum computer.

I guess the thing I’ve not absorbed yet is, why was the quantum computer expected to not work? I know it was much too complex a system, and internal noise would overwhelm any processing. Gidney described being amazed that the IBM quantum system even let him configure his experiment and run it. Why did it lose so completely to a random noise generator, as in how could you possibly get worse than random noise?

May I present Vampire Survivors.
Fantastic game. Entirely oldskool 2d.
You can navigate and play one-handed, no mouse.
And best of all, this is the exact game you just described, where a n00b can haphazardly press buttons and get somewhere.

Look, I NEVER played that way with the mouse move. Ya, its fukin bizarre.
But it allowed you to sweep forward and back in sudden waves, super agile. If you were good at it, it gave you a significant edge.
And the games that had that sort of locomotion were originally written to run on x386 processors, so you were fast in a slow world.

I bet my old generic Sears pong set still works.

I broke so many of those. The kids today just do not know. Hated those fuken things.