That really does sound like a nightmare. I’m glad you’re in a better place now.

Is he still around doing his lying thing to other people m

Wow, that’s horrifying. He sounds psychotic and psychological. That must be hard to come back from without permanent trust issues. I hope you’re doing okay. Was it long ago?

That must have been horrible. Did it all come out at once, or did you piece things together a little at a time?

Recently retired from a place that makes rocket engines, and there’s just so much. Start with a rocket engine itself - the combustion gasses are like 3300 C (6000 F) with more than 400,000 lb of thrust. But there’s a lot associated. We dealt with lots of liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen. We have a giant braze oven that we can put a whole rocket nozzle into. It’s quite an arsenal.

They’re delicious too

Peaches are great to have because they’re so different from what you get at the grocery store. A peach ripened on the tree is much more flavorful than once picked unripe, but a ripe peach is so soft that they pick them unripe for shipping. Pulling a ripe peach off the tree and eating it is a religious experience.

We had already had a Trump term, we knew exactly what he is. I might give a tiny bit of credence to people who voted for him in 2016 because they believed the bullshit and then regretted voting for him. But this time, no way. And we all knew this time would be worse.

Not only do I not miss it, I’m relieved that it’s not here.

And our constitution explicitly says the government can’t favor one religion over another. There are Christians in our country who are trying to undo that - who think we’re a Christian nation - but the US was settled by diverse groups wanting the freedom to practice their own religions, and the ability to do that was built into our constitution. So a religious text isn’t justification for something being legal here.

Your mom having a say in who the other wives are is not the same as you mom being able to have other husbands.

What bullshit. I’m over 60 and no one I know thinks this way. Remember, we’re folks why grew up before the internet, saw it come about, (saw the enshitification of it), and saw AI content surge. We know that the AI content is relatively recent. This makes no sense

Okay, thank you. I am, in fact, running Windows. I appreciate the info.

Hmm, okay, that sounds good. This is a Python? So I just need to install Python and then download libpst?

For context, I have a CS degree (1985) and was a software engineer for many years, but I went up a management ladder like 20 years ago, and about the only programming I’ve done since has been office VBA. I’m retired now. I’ve never used Python or git personally, though I managed people who did. So a couple pointers to get me on the right track would be appreciated.

The free trials all limit use to like 25 emails and I have orders or magnitude more than that.

Edit: oh, you probably mean the free trial of Outlook? Is there such a thing? If so, that might be viable. As I recall, the MS tool only works with a locally installed version of Outlook, not 365. I’ll have to look into that.

It’s possible, and that’s a good idea. The only one I know of for sure is my son, but he lives 900 miles away, so I’d have to do it remotely, and the PST file is like a GB in size, so I was trying to avoid that. It’s possible one of my friends does though.

Thunderbird looks like a viable client. I installed it tonight and poked around a bit - seems fairly feature rich. If you have outlook, there are a number of options. One of the easiest is to just point Thunderbird at the same address as your Outlook points to, and move your PST contents into Outlook proper. But I don’t have outlook, and don’t want to buy it just for this.

I had a Sound Blaster 16 in my computer from about that year. Had totally forgotten that sound cards were almost as prevalent as video cards.

Not sure why some people are disagreeing - it for sure fits the definition. I’m not exactly sad about it - Musk is helping to rip apart the country and I have a hard time blaming people who feel that helping to rip apart one of his companies is about all they can do - but committing arson to further an ideology is terrorism.

Science showed things like climate change, which was hurting the bottom line of giant corporations who donate huge amounts of money to Republicans, so Republicans convinced their base that science is against God, and that it’s all part of the evil woke liberals thing. So now anything that comes from science, including vaccines, is tainted.

Probably so