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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • It was removed about version 44 or 45 or somewhere about then. Maybe a couple of years ago.

    Unless they’ve fixed it in a very recent version, it now has a “next five weeks” view instead - starting from the middle of one month and ending part way through another, and showing you a mixed up “Aug/Sep/Nov” sort of thing - which might be sort of useful for knowing what you’re doing socially next week, but if you’re trying to do accounts, timesheets, budgeting and other admin stuff it’s a massive pain in the arse.

    [Edit] I had a look to see when it was done - there’s a blog post talking about removing month view here: feaneron.com - 2023, extending the month to infinity
    though I think that version didn’t appear in Linux Mint for another few years though.













  • It’s a very good question - though the 1870s is about when “dry plate” photography was introduced, and during the decade, exposure time potentially dropped below a second (depending on the what/where/how of the photograph).

    Roughly 1850-1860ish is when you’re looking at over ten or twenty seconds for a photo, which is probably a “cat sitting still” limit. Earlier than that you start going towards minutes and hours for a photograph. I think there are cat photos from the 1840s, though I imagine the photos are blurry or the cats are asleep

    If you want a bunch of early cat photos to look at, in the UK, there was a cat photographer, Henry/Harry Pointer, who was seemingly pretty well established in the 1870s. Photohistory Sussex - Henry Pointer (scroll down to the “Brighton Cats” bit)