Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitates it, trying to be amusing and informative.
Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.
Was on kbin.social but created this profile on kbin.run during the first week-long outage.
Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish
Hopefully archive.org have measures in place to stop people from yanking all their data too quickly. As least not without a hefty donation or something. As a user it can chug a bit, and I’m hoping that’s the rate-limiting I’m talking about and not that they’re swamped.
I’d suggest “Spicious Linux”, but it’s a 5/10 pun at best, and too similar to “specious” which means “sounds legit but isn’t”; not necessarily a good look.
“Opus” borrows letters and sounds good, but speaking of sounds, it’s the name of a sound codec, so maybe not a good choice.
“Abstruse” has similar problems to “specious”…
“ChameleOS” is the name of a dragon in a game.
I figure if I run through all the bad ideas here, only good ones will be left… but that might well be specious.
Yep. I remember - despite the fact it was old even then - building and connecting a Win 3.11 machine to a TCP/IP office network as a proof of concept back in 2000 or so. I might have even installed Netscape on it. I don’t remember clearly now, but I assume the parts for the computer came out of the spares pile, and were soon recycled back into other machines.
“I used to be able to Google like you, but then they changed what Google was and now what I can do doesn’t work, and what you have to do seems weird and scary to me.”
It’s a bit easier to not use a website than it is to leave a country.
A combination of browser settings and exceptionally rare usage of short link providers - as creator or user - means I’m not completely sure about this, but … were they putting ads on the short links somehow?
Because I figure if they weren’t they should have tried that.
And if they were, how expensive is running a short link service anyway? This feels like rummaging around in the sofa for loose change. Smacks of desperation.
I think that can be boiled down to only cd; echo .*/
Maybe throw a ;cd - on the end if the change of directory is unwanted.
Coming back to this with thoughts. What you’re describing sounds a lot like a menu tree.
“Press 1 to do this, 2 to do that, 3 to go to submenu A, 4 for B,” etc. 1
“You have pressed 1. Do you want to turn on option ABC? [Y / n]” Y
“Do you want option QWERTY47? [Y/n]” N
“Are you sure you want to run notthebees --abc --no-qwerty47? [Y/n]” N
“Aborted.”
It sounds like a standards problem waiting to happen because no two menus will be alike, but hey, things like this can and do exist, and setting one up isn’t that hard, only time consuming.
can’t afford it
Here’s a thicket of weeds: Why would you want to show ads to someone who can’t afford your product?
YouTube have been doing that sort of thing for years though. Do you remember the push to have everyone switch to a Google+ account with a real name attached?
They’d ask if you wanted to do the aforementioned, and if you said no, they responded “OK we’ll ask again later.”
No “Never ask me this again.”, just the implicit “f–k you, we’re going to pester you with this over and over again until you sign up.”
After they got enough sign-ups they quit asking. And then Google+ went down the Swanee, so they relented and decided that maybe it was OK for people to have pseudonymous accounts after all. It only took years for that to happen.
Can’t see how short-form content is going to fail in the same way, so there’ll be nothing here to teach them the lesson again.
Hahaha. “Don’t look at the rubbish we have now, have a look at this quality content we had before Spez sold the last bit of his soul.”
Win7. I use LMDE+Cinnamon now and I have it looking suspiciously like how I had Win7. Old habits and all that.
Though you didn’t ask, Win2K was the probably the best Windows, IMO. Then came the bloat and the ugly UIs. (I’ve kind of got used to bloat these days. Storage is cheaper than it was, and LMDE isn’t exactly the slimmest distro.)
Maybe I would have liked Win10. Similar to how it was with the old Star Trek movies, it seems like every other version of Windows is terrible, and if that remains true, maybe 12 will be better than 11. Probably not going back to find out though.
Meanwhile, Mbin’s over here like, “what am I? chopped liver?”
It’s basically Lemmy and Mastodon rolled into one.
“And lo the corporations built their own navy, or maybe bought the US Navy which amounted to the same thing…”
They still don’t like to talk about the fact that it’s Greenwich and not Paris that’s the prime meridian.
But sure, I didn’t explicitly connect the dots.
Stealing from another commenter: Are you OK with referring to days of the week as Tuesday/Wednesday, or do you propose abandoning day names altogether? If you say your local day is Tuesday which doesn’t align with someone else’s Tuesday, you’ve still got the old time-zone problem just at a coarser grain.
As for “secondary time” yes. That’s called local time. Which is what the initial proposal was trying to be rid of.
Now riddle me this: What time do you have your computer’s motherboard set to?
I never said the time zone was GMT, only that the meridian is Greenwich. Subtle, yes, but if the meridian for UTC isn’t the one running through Greenwich, let me know.
I was using a Swatch-like duodecimal system of 12³ = 1728 beats per day. This is actually more accurate than minutes of which there are 1440 and actual Swatch beats which are 1000 per day.
Since I haven’t stated (or decided, for that matter) where the meridian is, we have no idea where this is, but it’s clearly morning. Or is it. It’s probably 10 minutes to some hour or another, or thereabouts, if midnight aligns with old time somewhere. Which it doesn’t have to.
“Mother why do our eyes bleed.”
“What time is it, Mother?” “It is 7XƐ, child. Eat your breakfast.”
It isn’t just JavaScript (or Java which uses the “Hashmap” name).
There are, of course, languages that don’t have an equivalent structure, but for those that are sufficiently popular, it’s almost certain that someone has written a library that emulates associative arrays and then fairly certain that that library, in turn, has been used in production somewhere.
File this under “If it’s stupid but it works…”