A screenshot of Minesweeper, in all its retro glory, running on Windows 11.

Get Minesweeper back on your PC and other stuff I wrote this week

It’s been over a decade since Microsoft removed Minesweeper from Windows. If you don’t go a single day without thinking about this loss you might want to read How to get Minesweeper and seven other classic games back in Windows 11 over at Lifehacker. Here’s a few other things I published in the last week. 

Stuff to check out

  • You are into mousetrap YouTube Big Joel/YouTube An odd animated meditation on relationships and niche online interests. 
  • The hallucinating ChatGPT presidency Mike Masnick/TechDirt Everything the president says sounds like an AI hallucinating—a confident mishmash of words related to the subject at hand. 
  • The age of the double sell-out W. David Marx/Culture: An Owner’s Manual This article points to something I haven’t been able to give a name to. Artists used to sell out a little so they could spend the rest of their time making art. Double sells outs, on the other hand, sell out a little so that they can cash in even more. 

One response to “Get Minesweeper back on your PC and other stuff I wrote this week”

  1. vicente depdel Avatar

    Do you have separate setups for Windows and MacOS? Or just one desktop setup for laptops and you plug in a Mac or PC depending on what your are gonna use?

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