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Honestly, great teachers would have given you extra credit for that work (and possibly used it for future semesters, but let’s not get carried away here).

No but maybe the C-level guys don’t need multiple millions while the actual developers don’t hardly get paid in comparison.

I had this exact argument about Day of Defeat back before Counterstrike got assimilated by Valve. I had no respect for all the bunny hopping in CS, but enjoyed the slow(er) gameplay and strict limitations of DoD (such as running 40 meters and then panting, very realistic representation of my own fitness lmao).

Futo is great unless you constantly switch between several languages. 🥲

SwiftKey also does this!

I really, really want to switch to a less, uh, commercial keyboard but none of the ones typically praised here (for good reason) support multilingual swiping.

Here’s one that’s ugly but thorough: https://fireflychinese.kevinsullivansite.net/index.html

I wish.

In my (official dvd) box set, they caption it as “[SPEAKING GALACTIC LANGUAGE]” as if it’s some made-up sounds and not plainly an existing language.

I take comfort in knowing there are web sites that explain every phrase in detail.

Edit: Check out https://fireflychinese.kevinsullivansite.net/index.html

Even if you only tinker with OS installation occasionally, Ventoy is a damn godsend!

Forget about “burning” ISO files to a usb stick, just put a bunch of raw ISO files on the stick and Ventoy will give you a nice boot menu to select from them - and a separate USB partition for user data as well. It’s glorious.

I would recommend you visit distrowatch.org as they have reviews of a great many distros over a long period. That would prepare you to form an opinion on what kind of experience you want to have.

Example - UI, ie. Desktop Environment: chose Gnome if you like Apples way of making things very polished and giving the user few (visible) options to tinker. Choose KDE if you like a “busy” UI with *all* the options exposed and a ton of desktop widgets. Choose MATE or LXDE if you like a snappy and minimalist approach.

Possibly the biggest differentiator between distros is their native package manager. You can take any distro and swap out eg. KDE for Gnome, but the package manager is fundamental and probably(?) impossible to replace fully.

Example: All the Debian based distros use DEB packages. You’ll find a ton, though dine distros lag behind the most recent versions. Others use Redhat’s RPM system, while still others build everything from source (which is slow as fuck but gets you to the cutting edge with all the knobs and dials). There’s also the Snap and Flatpak systems which strive to supply platform agnostic packages, but do so with very different approaches.

Good luck!

Aside from the meme, what is the story about this photo? Is it the last photo of the family home before they evacuate? Then why is she smiling? What is going on?

Wow, you are the first person I’ve “met” who even knows about that book. Fistbump. I have a copy (since my dad used to work as an Apple distributor back then, this was way before they had retail stores like they do now).

While I can see that a good bit of that relatively slim book is (now) less than ideal, it still hurts to see how much UI and UX across all platforms is going downhill. I don’t even recognise a “for the sake of X” because there seems to be no rhyme or reason to it (other than “it’s different and therefore more better. Also, I made this”).

…and then you’re locked out of using your phone to pay for things, can’t install banking apps and marginal ID apps, et cetera. 😢

I’m just running a pain Linux with the MATE desktop, with increased sizes of mouse cursor and UI elements.

The big thing is using VLC with a wireless keyboard, and using a white sharpie on the keycaps to show the quite customised VLC shortcuts.

It’s been years since I tried Kodi et al, and I always found the actual media playback to be lacking some customisation (eg. audio or subtitle timing offsets).

In lieu of a media database, I simply mark the movie folders with file emblems when I’ve watched a movie or episode (VLC keeps track of partial viewings, resuming where it left off).

Good for you! Seriously!

For the rest of us, a few notes on how you accomplished this would be sha-weet! I think sketch up is the most approachable 3d program, but all my “post Windows” attempts have resulted in crashes and freezes. 😥

Hey, that sounds very interesting. It’s there anything not working as it should work that hw/sw combo?

Personally, XP.

Professionally, I’ve been subjected to Windows 10, but promptly installed Linux (and win 10 in a VM). I have refused job offers that insist on windows 10, and will refuse Mac centric press as well.

Well there was also gobo Linux, which would let you play Tetris while the installation did its thing.

Aha, interesting, thank you. So setting nofail and a time out of, say, 5s should work… but what then when I try to access the share, will it attempt to remount it?

How the hell do I set up my NAS (Synology) and laptop so that I have certain shares mapped when I’m on my home network - AND NOT freeze up the entire machine when I’m not???

For years I’ve been un/commenting a couple of lines in my fstab but it’s just not okay to do it that way.

Shift/Ctrl+Ins/Del unite! 😁 And yes, muscle memory is a powerful drug. Been using it since before Windows came along, kept using it after. Especially useful after I switched to Dvorak (and yes, I know of Colemak).