Chrome is no longer available in my Start menu.

Do people still use google? I haven’t touched it for yonks now. Except GRIS, that still works well.

Can’t a 3D printer double as a 2D printer? It’d only have to print one “slice”; you’d replace the heated nozzle with some sort of writing stick, hey presto instant plotter!

Oh, I can do project management too!

Your next task is waves hands around … the thing … waves hands around some more … like the other thing … but different.

“Which server do I join?” seems to be a sticking point for a lot of people.

The “Browse servers” page does say at the top “You can access all content in the lemmyverse from any server, so it doesn’t matter which one you choose”, but on showing this page you immediately scroll that message off the screen. Maybe if you kept that bit visible it would help.

Also I think comparing it with email servers might be helpful. People already know they can email anyone from any email server, and that signing up to, say, Posteo, doesn’t mean you can only email other Posteo users.

I can’t find it now but I seem to remember a proof that a collection of points could be divided in half by a straight line, first by assuming that no three points were collinear, then by picking any point on the plane, drawing a straight line through it, then rotating it around that point until you could get half the points on each side. The implication of this though is that you could pick someone in Aberdeen, which the above map would seem to suggest isn’t possible.

The location of the second line would have to be determined by sliding it along the first, rather than rotation, so it could end up resting on 0, 1 or 2 points. Either way you’re probably close enough. The proof, for or against, is outside my mathematical ability.

For the next four years I also propose renaming en_us to an-us.

Have you tried Ctrl-Tabbing through all open tabs, to load them all in? It’s be interesting to see how much memory it uses then.

5G for HermitCraft S9, 10G for Enigmatica 6 Expert (looking at Working Set in Resource Monitor). I’ve rebuilt impulseSV’s iBuy as an autocrafting tower in my E6E world, and I needed more detail than I could glean from the videos.

Firefox is a bit more tricky to work out because it’s split over multiple processes but if I kill it while watching Resource Monitor the Available Memory jumps by about 9G, with 56 tabs open.

Have you ever had Windows break so badly that you had to burn an install disk…

As a programmer, yes under Windows 3.0 I could crash the computer so hard that the only way to recover was to reformat the hard disk. It got progressively better in later versions and everything from Windows 2000 has been virtually uncrashable.

My most recent hard crash was when I had a VM, two Minecraft instances and Firefox all open at the same time and Windows ran out of memory (so I upgraded from 32GB to 64GB). It does make me wonder why some of that didn’t get swapped out though.

Well that’s OK. It’s not uncommon for different countries to name bits of land and water differently from everyone else. Take Germany for example. The locals call it Deutschland. The French call it Allemagne. Or there are the Falklands, known by the argybargies as Las Malvinas. If Donny McFart in North Mexico wants to call that bit of water the Freedom Gulf or whatever then good for him! As long as he realises it works both ways.

Great, so let’s now do that with memory cards. Faster than Class 10? Call it Class 11, not Class 10 U1 or U3. Faster than Class 11? Call it Class 12. There’s no shortage of numbers. Let’s drop all this U1 U2 bollocks.

Yes, I am still sore about those Class 10 cards I bought for my dashcam that don’t fucking work because it wants U3 and they were U1.

Unfortunately I hit a screen preventing me from seeing the article unless I signed in.

Maybe what’s confusing is that it’s called the South China Sea. Not surprising really that China thinks it’s theirs. Let’s rename it to the Brunei Sea or something, then that’ll clarify the situation and solve all the problems.

Are the night trains in Ukraine inspired by that Elf on a shelf thing?

I was surprised to find out that ******* gets censored everywhere.

Well NATO works both ways, and we’ve seen recently what happens if russia decides to walk into a non-NATO country.

If russia walks into the USA then NATO (probably renamed to the European Defence something) will be sitting back going “hey, sucks to be you. Shame you’re not in a mutual defence pact or something.”

There was a period some years ago where Firefox and Chrome were leapfrogging each other: Firefox would get slow and crap so I’d switch, then Chrome would get slow and crap and I’d switch back to FF, and so on. I’ve been on Chrome for quite a while it seems, until this development with uBO, well for me the internet is unusable without a shitblocker, so that’s the end of Chrome. Thankfully FF is up to the job.

And my phaseout of Chrome is complete. My two browsers are now Firefox and Edge. Bit surprised at the latter tbh but it seems reasonably adequate as a secondary browser.

Quite right too. The most important factor for me when buying a computer is that the sales droid is in an office. All those CPU, RAM and disk numbers are secondary to that.