I’ve always maintained it would have been an amazing game without the glitches. In a way I can appreciate it for what it nearly was.

It’s worth a try, though in my experience it can struggle with very large files.

Either Earl Grey with no milk, no sugar, or (for different reasons) Hōjicha which I got a taste for when I visited Japan so much that I now import it.

Remember the first time you used Google search? It was like magic. After years of progressively worsening search quality from Altavista and Yahoo, Google was literally stunning, a gateway to the very best things on the internet.

No, I’m not having that! That’s rewriting of history. I remember when Google came out, it was pretty much as good as Altavista and no more. It had the additional appeal that it looked (for the time) unique and fresh and had a weird name, I remember getting my friends to try this “weird new search engine that might someday beat Altavista” but it never revolutionised anything in terms of search results at the time.

Also Altavista was not getting progressively worse, I still remember the days when you could type a simple dictionary word into a search engine and have it return 0 results. Altavista is what changed that, not Google.

I was talking about Twitter. 10 years is not a long time.

I don’t see much has changed in the last 10 years fundamentally, if you’re comparing 20 years ago I might agree.

Not sure what you mean there.

It feels like the Twitter from just before Elon when it was still bad but not terrible, I was hoping it would be more like the Twitter from 10+ years ago when it was still reasonable.

I waited 4 months for my invite, took a look around and went back to Mastodon.

I’m a heavy user of spreadsheets and in my experience OnlyOffice is inadequate in features, it’s slow, sluggish, and crashes whenever you try to open anything big. I’m surprised it gets so much attention and I can only assume it’s used by people who don’t do any really heavy-duty work with it. LibreOffice is full-featured and is what I’ve been using for years, I’m very happy with it.

A basic mechanical keyboard will last 20+ years and will be a nice typing experience for all those years. I’m old enough to have seen mechanical keyboards go for 20 or more years under heavy use and plenty of non-mechanical keyboards going bad after 5 years or so with similar use. It’s a great purchase.

Do people really buy pans for just eggs though? I’ve always used my regular pans for cooking eggs and if I’m storing them in my home I’d want them to cook more than just eggs.

Valve are not going to put malicious code on their app. Neither is VLC or any other FOSS developer.

How would you know that? It’s not like it’s something that doesn’t happen.

Or 5 Bob’s all doing the same thing with 5 copies of Valve on the Store.

It’s crazy. This is what causes fragmentation.

I don’t know what snaps are like but that’s clearly a non-existent problem on Flathub.

Flathub should vet every app and if you are not the dev of the app, you may not host it on Flathub. You’re still welcome to make a Flatpak for home use on your own pc but not for wide distribution.

I don’t know why you feel like there’s permission involved. You don’t have to use Flathub, therefore Flathub can have what ever policies it likes. Users can set up a different flatpak repo if there’s a need.

The problem is that 3rd parties are doing the packaging both on Snap and Flatpak whereas if they had followed proper security practice ONLY THE REAL DEV should ever be allowed to package their app as a Flatpak or Snap.

Says who? If it were the case, Linux would either be a nightmare of fragmentation or become centralised on one distribution. Distros need to be able to package their own software, and these are kind of like distributions. Also since we’re talking about proprietary software here, is it really any better security practice if the “real dev” packages it or somebody else, they both could contain malicious code.

I knew my comments were crap but wow… :)

Can you not just post what the use-case is and the list? I’m not going to watch an unsolicited 20 minute video.

In hindsight I should have done.

lol?

Yeah, you need to put a bit more effort into that trolling of yours.

You don’t seem to be a very nice person…

I wouldn’t go that far, there’s not a snobbishness associated with Essex people that I imagine there is with Beverly Hills (though I’ve never been to Beverly Hills). There is classism in the stereotype but people from Essex are generally looked down upon, not (so much) the other way round.

An Essex girl is involved in a car crash and is trapped and bleeding. The paramedics soon arrive on the scene.

Medic: “I’m a paramedic and I’m going to ask you some questions. OK?”

Girl: “OK”

Medic: “what’s your name?”

Girl: “Sharon”

Medic: “OK Sharon, is this your car?”

Sharon: “yes”

Medic: “where are you bleeding from?”

Sharon: “Romford, mate.”

(I was born in Essex so I think I’m allowed to tell these :p)