Oh, absolutely! Still have mine in my desk drawer for any long-chained calculations. The Deci-Lon was the absolute GOAT in both its long and short forms.

IMHO the only slide rule that was consistently better was the Faber-Castell 2/83N.

You use a click eraser or a normal block eraser.

Only filthy casuals suffer one at the end of the pencil.

.5mm or .3mm for me, the only place I use a .7mm or a .9mm is with woodworking.

No K&E either. Which for any draftsperson, ex or current, is a heretical omission.

I find myself inordinately amused by the unsolicited vitriol of your comment. Sounds like you have a lot to unpack with that particular model.

The fact that Rotring, Staedtler, Faber-Castell, and K&E mechanical pencils are missing is deeply troubling.

I also have an emotional thing for the Pentel P200 series, and the Pentel Techniclick in black has been my absolute personal favourite for light-duty scribbling and note-taking/math since the 90s.

VM

That still doesn’t solve 99.9% of my issues, it just tries to solve a problem for which I already have a solution actively in-place: a KVM.

In that way it’s become adversarial.

Back in the 2000s, I was able to say that while a fundamental install took only about a half hour to set up, usability tweaks and a full fleshing out of functionality took another 4-8 hours depending on what the user was going to use the machine for.

I just did a Win11 24h2 install. It took nearly 24 working hours before I considered it even minimally functional for my needs. Cycling through Win10Privacy two or three times was particularly frustrating. Registry work alone took me a good 8-10 hours of trying stuff a step at a time and then rebooting to see how it worked.

At this point, the only reason why I am still running with a Windows rig is for those half-dozen programs that don’t have appropriate non-Windows variants. It’s why I’m also running a Mac Mini and an OpenSUSE tower through the same 4-port, 6-head KVM.

I have used the same web browser, in terms of ideology, codebase, and heritage, for nearly a third of a century, now.

NCSA Mosaic -> Netscape -> Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox.

I now hew more to alternates such as LibreWolf and Floorp, but I still run Firefox EME-Free as my default.

Holy shit, the first time I saw this was, like, 20 years ago.

Talk about a blast from the past.