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I don’t know, I have a cheap Chinese USB adapter and it read a 40 Mb hard drive from a 286 laptop just fine, so… plus larger (hundreds of MBs) disks too.

But only if you run Tiger or newer :)

MuLinux was also a floppy-based “live” distro, with optional floppy disks for X11, programming languages, etc.

Veeeeery slow charger :)

But yeah, at some point we should also consider the tradeoff between convenience and battery life. Batteries can be replaced, having to charge twice a day is a PITA for me.

It’s the same principle of a safe-cracking robot, but for regular keys. Smart!

But… does it do commentary like “one is binding”, and does it try twice to see if it was a fluke? :)

The GTA VC screenshots are actually GTA III

Which keyboard shortcuts? In MacOS apps they’re usually done with the Cmd key (=Win key), not Option (=Alt).

If you mean in the terminal, or in a RDP session, yeah, that can happen (but it’s obviously a minority of users, and you can select the US International keyboard anyway).

The default Mac approach is IMHO superior in this. Just select the regular US keyboard, you have deadkeys available if you need them by pressing “alt”+symbol (e.g. “o” to have the dieresis symbol), then press the vowel you want to modify. But if you don’t know better, it’s just a regular US layout, and it’s always there, by default, on every computer (including that of your colleagues).

> All phones nowadays have bluetooth/wifi mac address randomization

Source?

This has been an argument from the 60s onwards

Which of Guareschi’s work is about Garibaldi?

I can imagine he’s mentioned a lot in Don Camillo since the communist and socialist parties in the first republican election of Italy joined in a coalition called “the Garibaldi front”, but Garibaldi himself was already long dead by then.

Or… use a (dirty) knife to split a solid tab; put 2/3 in the dishwasher compartment and 1/3 just in the dishwasher.

It gets weirder.

Nintendo GameCube and Wii are also PowerPC based. And somebody managed to have them run Windows NT: https://github.com/Wack0/entii-for-workcubes

"Why don't these people use the more universal name cookies and instead refer to them as biscuits?"

In Europe it's paracetamol, in the US is acetaminophen, both represent the same thing and are not ambiguous. Plus, it's literally mentioned in the 1st paragraph, together with the brand name Tylenol.

In the Netherlands it's sometimes informally called "aspirin", even though that's a different chemical altogether. In Italy, the brand name Tachipirina is often used.

What I meant is not "I can't find what it is", but that the landing page of Bazzite says this: "The next generation of Linux gaming - Bazzite makes gaming and everyday use smoother and simpler across desktop PCs, handhelds, tablets, and home theater PCs.

Play your favorite games - Bazzite is designed for Linux newcomers and enthusiasts alike with Steam pre-installed, HDR & VRR support, improved CPU schedulers for responsive gameplay, and numerous community-developed tools and tweaks to streamline your gaming and streaming experience."

In the first 5 words after the 1st title there should be mentioned "Linux distribution". It's not even in the 2nd paragraph, now.

If this is the clarity of the landing page, I suspect documentation is equally user-hostile/inaccessible, which is why 2025 is still not the year of the Linux desktop... in the Linux world there's still an abundance of great developers, and a terrible lack of HCI/UX expertise.

It's unbelievable just how unclear Bazzite's website is.

They don't spell out clearly what Bazzite is. Is it a distro? A layer on top of Steam? Something else? No idea from the first page.

Still on par with Linux UX, I'm afraid :(

For auto-generating non-sensical texts and SEO spam; for actual text generation, planners and realizers were the to-go approach (and ~5 years later it was all LTSMs)

Context: Win98 doesn't do anything with CPUs that support the HLT instruction, so even when the emulated cpu could be idle it's using 100% of your cpu.

It does not. This came 2 years into a bloody war, and is a response to that. Even the IDF reserve has now hundreds of people protesting against the war, but obviously very much against Hamas.

It’s just a statement against Israel’s politics. By your line of reasoning, any previous sign of support for Israel was also a support of the Nakba of 1948.

It’s a way to put political pressure on Israel, not a way to directly end the tragedy.

Plus, you can recognise a state without recognizing Hamas as its legitimate government

FWIW, I used Gemini to write an Objective-C app for Apple Rhapsody (!) that would enumerate drivers currently loaded by the operating systems (more or less save level of difficulty as the OP, I'd say?), using the PDF manual of NextStep's DriverKit as context.

It... sort of worked well? I had to have a few back-and-forth because it tried to use Objective-C features that did not exist back then (e.g. ARC), but all in all it was a success.

So yeah, niche things are harder, but on the other hand I didn't have to read 300 pages of stuff just to do this...

One of UX principles is exactly trying to do both.

My mom can use gmail, but she doesn’t even know about its hotkeys and accelerators, or Labs and whatnot

Not sure about now, but last year your only way of getting a digital vignette for the Austrian highway that is valid “today” was via a third party (from outside Austria, I think).

Austrian ASFINAG would only sell you one that is valid in ~2 week at the earliest, since that’s the time you are guaranteed by law to return it. Not very handy if you are already on the road, and don’t want to stop to buy a physical vignette.

IA can be painted in court as an “unwilling enabler” of something like Anna’s Archive, instead of a regular library

I find it telling that right in the first paragraph it says “People in the middle ages lit cats on fire for fun” as a fact, while it is, in the most charitable interpretation, something historians disagree on (and in the least charitable interpretation, it smells like bullshit from a mile).

I certainly am skeptical of someone taking Wikipedia as the Truth.

There certainly are similarities. On the other hand, we Europeans have tried to appease Russia for two decades, and it did not make it a less belligerent neighbor.

WW1 started (among other things) because the "superpowers" in Europe had been arming each other for quite a while in fear of aggression from the other superpowers (not completely unreasonable, given the wars of the previous century). This, in turn, forced the other superpowers to invest more in armaments and army. To top it off, they made treaties of alliance/military intervention (the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente).

The assassination of the archduke was like flipping a light switch in a house saturated with gas. Austria declares war to Serbia, which is defended by Russia, so Germany has to declare war to Russia; Germany expects France to join Russia so they declare war to France, but their battle plans to conquer France require passing through Belgium. The UK needs Belgium to remain neutral, so they declare war to Germany... and so on. Once the wheels are in motion, and everyone is ready for war, war just happens - whether coke is there or not.

I remember buying an iPhone 2G when the 3G was already out, and I still have it.

2G isn’t written on the case, but everybody referred to it as “2G” to differentiate it from the newer model.

Which car was it?