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Libreoffice has an HTML mode. Seamonkey has a basic graphical editor. Bluefish is a text editor with HTML templates. Useful but not a graphical editor.

Here are a list of Dreameeaver alternatives: https://alternativeto.net/software/adobe-dreamweaver/

Here are Front Page alternatives: https://alternativeto.net/software/microsoft-office---frontpage/

Most of the graphical page layout programs have been discontinued or at least not maintained. BlueGriffon, NVU, and Kompozer were examples. I do not know if they are still usable.

Edit: You might look at Silex. It seems to be the only FOSS graphical editor with much popularity that is still supported. I have not used.

Yes. There are other concerns. Micro plastics for example maybe. My only point really... Maybe some off these things are less important then others.

They say 3.4% of greenhouse gas emissions from plastics which is nothing. We do need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by like 80% but not to 0.

Also not sure why more waste to energy is not used. Sure green house gases, but if it displaces other emissions maybe not so bad.

Also is the plot all time or current. I only care about currentbor last 10 or 20 years and future tends.

Maybe marketing is not the best work for you. It is by its nature doing the least work to sell the cheapest stuff possible for the most money to people who may not need it.

My wife always says find the intersection of your greatest skills to the world's greatest needs. I personally add... and that you can get paid for... preferably at least 2X median income. That typically means be a specialist, a manager, or run your own business.

Actually my last visit last year had pretty good eye pressure. Hoping it is a trend not an anomaly. Just annoying, time consuming, and expensive to have to track as closely. Plus when your border line for maybe 5 years you wonder when things might get worse.

Edit: My vision has been improving with age too for awhile now at least in terms of optical power.

Yes... eye pressure... me too. I have to go in periodically for an OCT and field. Hoping same. Best of luck.

Sorry to hear about you sanitary sewer issues. They are the worst. Never had much issues myself until I moved in with my wife. Before then I lived in mostly newer and pretty well maintained apartment buildings.

Since then it is always something. Every few years. Squirrel dropping a walnut in our stack. Roots in house main line. Long term buildup in various lines that need to be cleared. One bathroom toilet just not flushing that well... I think by design. Now a stinky sink drain.

I sometimes wonder if all this low flow stuff makes things worse.

Yes maybe moving files could be an issue. Lot of software archives by path. rsync is one way but I suspect it is path based. If your using BTRFS I suspect the bulitin mirroring utility can track movement. Never tried though.

For backups as opposed to syncing Deja Dup, duplicity, or dupliciti are suppose to be efficient. Not sure if they are path or Inode based though for example. GNU Tar in some modes can track hard links but I do know if it can handle movement of files, I suspect no.

Security is always porous. The article really had no suggestions. They say 2FA but account recovery is often a combination of access to your email account or questions. None of this stuff is particularly secure.

So yes security is an advanced feature usually not provided and normal users do not even try at being secure nor do most systems insist on it.

Edit: Some sites are doing away with passwords and just sending and email with a link to login. Totally not secure but account recovery has long used the same method so it may not be actually reducing security much since there never was much security.

Jounal articles are the start of discussion not the end. They get an idea out there for others to consider test and extend or dispute.

Keep in mind reviewers are generally unpaid as well.

Code reviews do not test correctness of code either of if the code is bug free. They also tend to assume good will of the participants. They have similar issues.

I have published in peer reviewed journals and done a few reviews myself. It is not a perfect system. There are generally only a few reviewers. Typically others that have published in the journal in that area. The goal is not to check the work deeply and the tilt is to allowing and also trusting the authors. The other thing that shocked me, the authors generally pay quite a lot of money by the page to publish articles. Also not every journal is the same. Some hard to publish in and others easy. Some nonprofit and others profit making entities. The rush to publication and the publish or perish situation in science creates its own issues too.

This is not that much a failure of science in that it was discovered pretty quickly and presumably a retraction has been made. It is comical.

I would add that the patent system has similar issues. It is far from perfect too. Invalidating a patent is a lot more time consuming and costly and a lot less funny.

Over stating. She supports a national consensus on abortion whatever that turns out to be. Civil War... that is just pandering. Do I agree with her on all things, no.

Keep in mind that national security and rule of law are now the only issues that matter. Everything else is just arranging the deck chairs on the titanic. Politics is the art of the possible.

Edit: Younger candidates that are not age impaired is important too.

I kind of feel the same way. I met my wife through friends after I had kind of given up. So I recommend that approach. I never had any success with the dating to meet someone idea. I was more or less clueless too.

I really have had only two long term relationships. An on and off one with a childhood friend which failed for many reasons but mostly location and career issues. The other is my wife which was after my career got going and I had a stable location. There were a few people I asked out... and even fewer that accepted... and maybe only one that was more then one date.

Moral is you may still end up finding someone after giving up. There is something said for being open even after giving up. It also only takes finding one reasonable person.

I met my wife through friends, not through massive amounts of dating. After first date with the woman that ended up as my wife, I mentally gave it two months. Some where along the way it got out of hand and we have been together for 28 years. Who would have known.

Personally I do not believe immediate attraction is more then lust and lust is not a long term thing. You have to get to know people and that takes time. If you know someone and can accept them for who they are your likely to love them. Then there is the question whether you can stand them, do you trust them, are your lives compatible. If your lucky the lust part comes and goes and comes back again over the years but it is not the basis of our relationship.

No strong candidate. There are three. The most serious is Dean Phillips. He is reasonable but getting almost no votes. Way weaker then Haley is on the other side and Haley is likely to go no where too. Though at the moment Halley to me seems the obvious one to support in the primaries regardless of your usual party.

As an actual point. I will probably vote for Nikki Haley and I can because I am in am open primary state. Each state has different rules. Some you have to belong to her party, some you just have to not belong to any other party, others party affiliation does not matter. Some states do not have primaries but use the caucus process. It is all over the map.

Edit: If Haley makes it to the general election and Biden is the other candidate, I may well vote for Haley. It would be a hard choice but I am fine with both but for different reasons. My view ... the best thing a voter can do at the moment is vote on the republican ticket for Haley even if you have to change party to do it. Most people will not though... either to lazy, to uninformed, to unengaged, or too sickened by the prospect.

Harris would be fine.

Nikki Haley would be fine but she is in the other party and will never be Biden's running mate. Interesting idea though. She probably will not be Trump's running mate either.

I would rather see a contest between Harris and Haley. Fine with either. Both reasonable people.

Same here. I am a US citizen.

I even have people in my family that voted for this guy and may again.

The options we have are limited. Biden who is really too old. Trump who is too old not qualified and self serving. Nikki Haley who probably cannot get nominated.

Edit: Most people want Biden and Trump to not be running but we will probably be stuck choosing between these two. In the primaries I will not vote for either. In the general election I will never vote for Trump.

Interesting idea. The netbooks that ASUS introduced and Google Chromebooks are good examples if minimal hardware. ASUS had to stop promoting and apologize to Microsoft for competing with them but Google of cousre did not because it could go it on its own and has deep legal pockets.

Other thing is to think in terms of minimum usable product. A barrier there is that it needs to be enough hardware to drive a web browser and a screen that is or is near HD. This tends to mean a lot of memory and computing power.

You could order from the same supply chains that Brands do but the up front costs and lot size requirements would be too much for anyone other than a major brand. Plus it would have to be worth their time and not upset their other customers. Big barrier to entry. I do not doubt it could be done, but at a very high unit cost.