Antip0dean

> ...we could have made something extremely minimal. Instead UEFI goes hard in the opposite direction...

My initial suspicion was that this was about preparing the ground for closed computing regardless of the surrounding hardware.

That this hasn't happened suggests it's just my imagination gone wild, it's a missed opportunity for (say) Microsoft, or the folks behind it had good intentions. Occam's Razor, I guess?

I remember when DVDs started asking your language... so they could threaten you in that language. What a (profit-driven) world...

This is a big thing in the UK, too. The official narrative here is modern slavery with undocumented migrants. It's the same with sex work, with which is harder to separate between conservative propaganda and reality.

I expect the main difference between the US and UK versions are that the latter are typically set up in disused urban plots with pop-up tents and temporary chain-link fences rather than having any investment.

Either way, if you're getting 3-5 people washing your car for a tenner, the people you're handing you money to are probably receiving minimal pennies on the dollar.

It is. And this is the likely to be the solution to this issue. DP is a VESA standard, and its Dual Mode feature supports passive adaptors for, among other things, HDMI displays. I use one on my 20-series RTX card.

A cheap DP-HDMI dongle makes all this go away. As long as VESA doesn't behave the same way, anyway.

This looks neat. Wish I'd known about it when I started with the original Paperless a couple of years ago (then NG and now NGX). Might give it a try if I ever need to change.

I'm likewise surprised that Scholar, Alerts and Translate still exist. The expectation really is that if it's great at what it does, but isn't flagship, then it must be killed.

> I would bet that musicians as a whole make most of their money from live performances.

That's certainly been true for artists who are locked into restrictive contracts. Live performances have usually been the main ways for many to make money outside of their recording deals, experiment, and to sell merch.

I nearly started looking for it - thinking of the SIRDS images that were popular year ago - until I noticed the position markers. It's almost like we're trained in memes...