The house I’m renting and the house I own are both around 1930, which is considered modern in the UK. The house I grew up in is about 1800.

I’ve always thought there’s two kinds of Americans; the ones who have a passport and the ones who don’t.

If they’re willing to explore the world and recognise the US isn’t the whole universe I find them to be totally fine.

Just checked, these were invented in 2016 and didn’t take off.

I haven’t seen plastic rings in years, are they banned or are some companies just not using them?

Edit I’m in the UK btw.

I know everyone in here’s saying no but I do. If I’m going to a social occasion I might have a drink beforehand; not much, just enough to feel it. I’m not the most comfortable in social situations and a beer can just take the edge off. I don’t get drunk or anything and I’d only do it if there’s going to be alcohol there anyway.

I also drink sometimes to help me sleep. I have ADHD and I struggle to switch my brain off. Sometimes I hit like 2am and if I think I need it I have a bottle of whisky downstairs that I’ll go and have a drink off. Again, just enough to feel it. I have pills and medicine that help me sleep, and they work also, but they leave me feeling groggy the next day. With a little whisky I don’t even feel it the next day and it seems to work just as well. I don’t do it too often, maybe once every 3 or 4 weeks.

Another reason for me to hate Spectre.

It’s not even clear what changed.

Just something to bear in mind regarding OneDrive; the unofficial clients don’t have access to certain APIs that the official clients use meaning that it only syncs every 5 minutes at best. As far as I know there’s nothing you can do about it.

Linux is way easier than it was even 10 years ago and many games run better on Linux than they do on Windows. There’s gaming distros but I’m not sure what the benefit is other than the built-in NVIDIA drivers. I just game on Fedora. You need to enable Proton stuff in the settings and you’re off.

Bought some parts for my car without checking they fit. Two hour round trip to pick them up, hours grinding the old rust off them, more hours repainting them, another £100 buying all the extra bits I needed to fit them. Then got under the car and realised there was no way they were going to fit. Ended up just buying some refurbished ones off the internet so at least the extra parts weren’t wasted and I get to fit them.

They were anti-roll bars for anyone who cares.

Let me know if you figure out how to get UO working on Wine. I have to use the online client.

I still dual boot but I find myself in Windows less and less. Specifically what I use it for is a few games, Fusion 360 (my brother is happy with FreeCAD but it’s not what I’m familiar with), and I need to use Windows for OffSec exams because the invigilator software doesn’t work with Fedora.

I only realised that Windows was required for the OffSec exams about 6 hours before I was due to start, I was bloody glad I had that Windows install good to go when that happened (it’s a 24 hour exam, notoriously hard).

This is just some glitch. They’ve not said anything about watching stuff locally becoming a pay thing.

Are we anywhere near being able to run this in a car? I want to hook it up to loads of stuff in my car and have a computer control it like Star Trek.

I’ll probably keep using it and see what happens. To be honest I’ll just go where the content is, and if the new people fuck it up it’ll likely go elsewhere.

I rushed to the comments when I saw a 1.6ghz CPU being called low end but I see OPs already been dealt with. I remember the first ever 1ghz CPU being an overclocked nitrogen cooled AMD Athlon. Me and my mates were all talking about it when it happened.

I enjoyed this game apart from when your vault gets invaded. I found frantically trying to pluck your characters up to drag them round the vault far too fiddly and it made me quit in the end. Did they ever change that?

I thought this had been edited but it’s real.

https://www.lcaed.com/pdf/Beacon-spring.pdf

Is this real? And what’s 6th grade for someone who isn’t American?

I think if you wiped everyone’s prior experience and knowledge and all that stuff, like just wiped the slate clean and presented all the OSes for what they are and let everyone choose which on they got to use, things would land pretty much where they are right now. Linux is generally way easier than it was 10 years ago but it’s still far too tricky for most normal users. If it’s too difficult for them to use then they effectively don’t have a computer and it’s useless to them. Linux may be free but after dropping £1000+ on a laptop people don’t mind so much paying an extra £70 for the software.

The two most important things to normal people are good looks and ease of use and Linux comes in last in both of those races.

Linux isn’t for normal people, it’s made by nerds for nerds.

Clueless.