The CD wasn’t really suited to be played Mobile (though I did have a portable CD player). It should rather be compared to vinyl in that regard.

I think tapes are great because no portable audio player ever came close to the Walkman regarding its cultural impact. The fact that anyone could record tapes opened up a lot of creative options.

For properly mastered music to be enjoyed at home on a potentially expensive setup, the CD was very close to perfect.

This is what people always seen to ignore about YouTube. It’s not just another database frontend to use generated content. That is definitely part of it, but behind that is probably the largest public facing content library on the Internet with a full video recoding infrastructure attached. YouTube is the platform for which I understand that they need to monetize.

Sure, nowadays there’s also tiktok as another big video service. But I like to think that YouTube is way bigger in most metrics.

But think about the 5 MB they saved!

I think SW Republic Commando sounds were stored in Vorbis. Back then.

Unreal Tournament also used Vorbis starting from either 2003 or 2004.

You can use the model yourself on your own hardware, offline, no Indians required.

If smart people love libreoffice, then I must be dumb. Working with it always seems weird and I never like it.

Fortunately, I can use LaTeX for work; it is far from without issues but while being arcane sometimes (especially when tables are involved), it never really upsets me and the result looks very good. I can say neither for libreoffice or MS office. But at least the former doesn’t charge for the experience.

I hope typst gains more traction; it seems really intuitive compared to TeX and you don’t necessarily need a macro package. And while it doesn’t produce the quality of TeX-based systems yet, it is already good. Then again, Knuth’s goal first and foremost goal was quality (and it shows); the system just had to be usable by him.

Unfortunately, it was built before the invention of microtransactions and lootboxes 😔

I suspect that is something specific to Ecosia, that they changed parameters from time to time which changes the entry, making your selected one no longer available, and then this happens: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-engine-removal

The fact that they announce Ecosia now after it’s been available for a bit, makes me think this is what happened. I’ll see

Using Linux here

Cool stuff, now of Firefox didn’t switch back to Google every major update or so, that would be great… because I actually do have Ecosia selected and need to switch back to it every once in a while because hey why not

It’s kind of in line with their plan to get rid of OCSP: short certificate lifetimes keep CRLs short, so I get where they’re coming from (I think).

90 days of validity, which was once a short lifetime. Currently, Google is planning to enforce this as the maximum validity duration in their browser, and I’m sure Mozilla will follow, but it wouldn’t matter if they didn’t because no provider can afford to not support chromium based browsers.

I was expecting that they reduce the maximum situation to e.g. 30 days, but I guess they want to make the stricter rules optional first to make sure there are no issues.

Ah, so that’s definitely good. It wasn’t clear from the screenshots, at least not for me

Well, are these results?

Until you need to disassemble it at -5°C in shit weather I guess

The G36 was just so convenient, sucks about the caliber but that was a deliberate choice. Just a fine piece of engineering.

G36 is so easy a monkey can use it. So good it’s boring. But I imagine that’s more of a quality

How do the results from ddg match the query? It doesn’t look particularly helpful to me, and if not, why would I prefer to wade through a number of results that are ultimately unhelpful?

If there are no matches, I want to be told.

Lol no

If I had a different specialisation, I’d probably care. But my job is mostly reading and writing documents, and they installed Miktex on my office machine, so I don’t want to complain.

We do have formal security requirements to meet though, and I think in general locking down machines in your network is the correct choice. But it’s probably not needed in every job

Their higher-end models seem of nice build quality at least, but that’s something I just expect at a certain price point.

Linux isn’t even an option at my current job, it’s WSL if anything. And that on the development machines only. Office work machines are Win 10 without any privileges, which I’m fine with. Employer pays for the time I take longer for certain things. His choice.

Unfortunately, there aren’t that many great European options, so buying somewhat domestic is hard.

Ah, okay. I do have thinkpads for work, same at my previous employer, I’d say they’re pretty forgettable, not sure I’d buy Lenovo for anything that needs to be particularly secure, just read the English wiki entry for Lenovo about security incidents, but I’d be more careful when procuring for work, especially in certain fields.

Excuse my smugness, but being excited for your premium laptop maker to bring back a feature that is standard basically everywhere (all of my four laptops have HDMI, and out of those, my two non-work ones also come with DisplayPort) is such an Apple thing

It’s like these people claiming that you need that connectivity for a lot of work were right.