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  • ¿por que no los dos?

    Also, not half the population, more like 99.9% of it. Start with the richest first, and work your way down.

  • Yeah, the descriptions and lack of curation is really weird ... browse games and oh look here's 27 varieties of reversi and a driving game that crashes on launch.

    If it were a curated list with enthusiastic and helpful descriptions it would make it more accessible to use. Get the mature and professional looking programs front and center.

    Much as I hate to say it, it could do with a makeover from someone with a sense of marketing. (Excuse me for a second, I felt a little nauseous saying that).

  • sigh yes I remember 1.0 taking up a lot of my 160mb hard disk.

    Things I remember: changing the command line font was mindblowing. I managed to get xeyes to run, but not a window manager, so I just had massive eyes following the cursor around. I compiled a lot of my really shoddy C code but had no idea what I was doing. The number of disks that Emacs needed felt disproportionate at 5 when MS Word 2.0 fitted on 3, and Doom fitted on 3 and a half.

    It was all very exciting, and felt like you were "sticking it to the man" by not using ms-dos :-)

    These days I just use computers as a tool, and as such I have Linux Mint on my home machine.

  • Not OP but, personally not having a modem at that time, I convinced a well-off friend that he should try it. Then I copied his disks.

  • Ok, that's fair ... I guess because the F250 isn't sold here people have a different attitude. For your needs here people would get something like an Iveco Daily 3.5 ton with dropside deck, they can take a good beating, about the same size as a heavy duty pickup but with more space on the back.

    They also do options for a crane, tipper for agregates, and crew cab ... seems like a pretty solid work platform compared to a pickup.

  • Indeed, I guess as any of us gets truly elderly it's harder to keep curiosity going - our brains aren't as flexible, so we try and go with that we know. I think that a lot of right-wing media purposefully courts nostalgia so they can get their hooks in.

  • Thank you, that's a very thorough reply! Me and my partner don't find gory stuff nearly as off-putting as sexism, so it sounds like we'll be ok with Black Lagoon.

    We'll watch Yona with expectations suitably muted ... TBH if I watch an Anime with low expectations and it turns out ok then I'm happy!

  • Yeah, I moved house with a Mk2 Mondeo and it was a breeze. Towed well, and could take 70kg over the hitch at the same time.

    Really practical :-)

  • You can tow an excavator, etc etc, with a Ford Transit. Hell, they can still drive ok if you stuff enough crushed cars in the back to get a curb weight of 3 tons.

    Meanwhile a 1/2 ton pickup looks like it's struggling with half a ton in the tiny tiny bed.

  • I live in a small village in the mountains, most of my neighbours are tradies or cobtractors. Their weapon of choice (along with the farmers here) is the Citroen Berlingo.

    It can tow a lot, long stuff can use the cargo hatch at the back of the roof, and it can do pretty serious off-roading. They're also good family cars.

  • Grave of the Fireflies is the second film I've ever watched that I don't want to see again because of the emotional pain. The first was Threads.

  • I'm skeptical that many conservatives have dynamic and complex inner worlds ... I don't see much evidence that they think much about anything, but rather offload as much as possible onto others. My mother, as she gets older, appears to actively avoid thinking for herself and has begun the decline into right-wing thinking. She likes the Daily Mail to do her thinking for her.

  • My working theory is that the Shire is the only part of middle earth where hereronormativity is the default.

    That's why the Kingdom of Men ended up with so many rings of power, he originally offered two to the Commune of Women but they politely refused because accepting expensive jewelery from a creepy older man would set a bad example to the children.

    Meanwhile the men thought anything that made other men kneel before them would result in a happy ending.

    While the Hobbits were getting The One Ring to Mt. Doom the women were oblivious to the sausage fest and busy upgrading their gloworm trail.

  • Damn your comment made me giggle!

  • Aside from using it to make jokes? It's not bad, a legible sans-serif that renders well on low resolution screens. A lot of discussions about "clean" fonts seem to squabble over minutiae while the important part of being readable seems forgotten.

  • Thank you for getting the joke :-)

  • Not that I know of? I have Connect and Liftoff for Lemmy running fine, Tomb Raider Go and Pocket Rally work nicely, Firefox is supported, etc etc. I have a HTC with Android 1.2 on it that I use for Google Maps, which works better than the Android 7 phone, so I'm not entirely convinced that new is always better, lol

  • Still adapting to Calibri ... I liked arial because it was usually near the top of the font list so it was easy to find, lol

  • This got me wondering what I'm using ... apparently it's a Moto G5s with Android 7?

    I like it because it didn't come loaded with extra software, it was cheap (80€ in 2019) and it's got a nice camera. In a few years I might think about replacing it, in which case I'd like something a bit smaller.

    I've got a tablet too, which is a Lenovo that fell off the back of a lorry in Hungary and my MIL bought it for me for the equivalent of 30€. It works well too, I think it's got Android 8 on it.