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You missed this part:

You aren't going to sway the terfs. But you can sway others

The two ancient stalwarts are still up and running:

Icecast directory: https://dir.xiph.org/

Shoutcast directory: https://directory.shoutcast.com/

Note that these are sites containing links to online radio stations not a statement about the quality of what might be available. Shoutcast has the better website, but is also slightly more oriented towards commercial content. Given that you say you like ads from other countries, maybe that's the one you'd want to try first.

Ah. I see. Being stupid on purpose, in parody or otherwise, sometimes doesn't go over all that well either.

I have made that mistake before, and will probably make it again at some point.

Squid, you're welcome here in the UK, but ... er ... don't do that.

Flashbacks of the time I, a northerner, tried to do a "Landan" accent that time I visited London. In retrospect I'm lucky all I got was a "what are you doing?"

The Wikipedia article I got the info from basically says that mid-month was considered a good time for religious celebrations. With St. Nick being a literal religious entity, that's probably why his "birthday" was put there.

The mid-month habit goes a lot further back than St. Nick too. For similar reasons to St. Nick's birthday, Julius Caesar's assassination is/was said to have been on that date (aka the ides of March). It might even have been. There's no way to be sure.

Had to look it up. St. Nicholas' true date of birth is lost to time, but traditionally it's said to be the 15th of March.

Well that has stumped me, I have to say. I thought the current US administration were all about cosying up to China on account of - how do I put this? - their governance model being an appealing template.

If you go look at the HUD for even older games like Doom and Quake, you can see where that idea might have come from. Usually those "inventory slots" were for fixed items, namely ammo for the various guns, but having different things on different number keys was definitely in use back then. The new part, of course, was making a game mechanic out of changing the things under the number keys.

Have later games stolen it directly from Minecraft? Sure, but it's such an obvious concept that someone else would have eventually invented it. In fact I'm not sure if Notch didn't borrow it from something else that had that extra mechanic first.

And now it's become a de facto standard like the positions of the clutch, brake and accelerator in a car. (And if you drive an automatic, the brake is still always to the left.)

macOS is a derivative of BSD Unix. Linux was a from-scratch Unix-alike. The fundamental core, including the literal kernel, are different even if they act the same in many ways.

If you're using "kernel" in a non-standard sense to mean "share some common tools, mindset and behaviour" then maybe, but that's stretching the definition a long way from what technical people would expect.

Here follows a link to a song about Afrikaners. It is from the 1980s and exceptionally politically incorrect, but it fits a certain subset of Afrikaners exceptionally well. Namely these people and a certain billionaire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9dmoT9AfoI

That \\. part doesn't look right, but what do I know. Apparently control codes are valid elsewhere, so a literal backslash followed by any character, even a space or a newline, might actually be valid there.

"Yeah, my e-mail address is abc, carriage return, three backspaces and a terminal bell at example dot com. ... What do you mean your mail program doesn't support it?"

You want to read literature? Try the man pages available from a shell / terminal. Don't know where to start? man hier, man proc, man 5 sysfs for three. Those are where Linux puts important things or rather, in the case of the latter two, where the Linux kernel likes to pretend they are for easy access. The 'SEE ALSO' section of at least one of those suggests other interesting reading, and on and on.

If that's not a direction you want to go but still want to know about something that you think might be in the Linux manual pages, try man -k keyword or apropos keyword. Replace keyword with what you want to know about and it will list all the manual pages that have the keyword in their name or description.

My mind goes to the literal running gag in the ancient webcomic 1/0. It was the word GAG given arms and legs and it would run around out of sight and turn up quite literally when the strip needed a punchline, or at least I think that was the idea.

Sometimes, when something won't even compile, I have try to compile it a second time - and get the exact same error message(s) - before my brain will accept there is a problem and perhaps begin to see the cause.

Somewhere in my head must be a gremlin who says, "No! It is the compiler that is wrong!"

The same can apply to semantic errors (the code is valid but does not do what it was intended to do) but those take longer to track down. To make the trick work, the debugging output has to be in just the right place in order to print proof of the wrong logic and then do the same on the next run, preferably in under a minute, so that I can begin to see the error.

Ah yes, the old "packed octet sequence, total compression of data encoding" format. It was invented by the boffins at Bletchley between cracking Enigma, and don't let Phil Katz tell you any different. waggles finger

Never really thought about it, but yeah, it's always been "Rubbish Bin" for me.

The directories created on filesystems for temporary storage are still called .Trash-* though.

You haven't watched or read much dystopian fiction (or fact, as below), have you?

My mind always goes to that one scene in Roots where, below decks on the slaver ship, the captured slaves-to-be stage a revolt and resolve to swim to the bank of the river the ship is sailing on. They succeed in reaching the top deck, a masterpiece of planning, only to become dazed both by the daylight as well as the fact there was no riverbank in sight.

Those poor bastards were from inland, had probably never been more than a few miles from their villages. They literally couldn't conceive of something as large as the Atlantic ocean.

Likewise you're failing to conceive all the ways that your plans won't work. You really think you'll get to someone's crotch or eyes? And if you do, that you'll not be overcome and won't get that opportunity next time?

The only hope is a whole heap of incompetence on behalf of the captor. And in that case you will still not win the fight. Run.

And hope there's a riverbank nearby or else you're cooked.

They put you somewhere that you have no communication with the outside world. Now what?

Yeah, I really should. I'll have a piece of hardware to install soon, so I might test it before I do that. Gotta switch off anyway so might as well.

LMDE Cinnamon user here. There's a setting in the power options that tells the computer to switch to hibernate if it remains in suspend for a certain amount of time. Hibernated computers suspend to disk rather than RAM and are basically switched off, so need to POST to come back online.

It took me a while to find that setting, and it might be the same case with whatever you're using.

What's more, it only took effect if I used the GUI to put the computer into suspend mode. I usually use a keyboard combo to suspend the computer at night, but occasionally I'd use the GUI and come back in the morning to a hibernated computer.

Thought I'd been taking crazy pills or that there was something wrong.

My main gripes are that inconsistency between suspend methods and also that there's no setting for how long to stay in suspend before hibernating. I have no idea if that's a UEFI thing or something that could be set elsewhere, but I'd probably use that feature if I could set it.

As it is I'm giving the hybrid option a try. Basically it suspends like normal, but also sets up a hibernated restart for if the power goes out. That hasn't happened yet, so can only assume it'll work when the time comes.

Late edit: The delay between suspend and hibernate is set in /etc/systemd/sleep.conf with the setting HibernateDelaySec=. Manual page reading is required, but even so, this feature is not well documented there or out on the Internet.

There may be syntax available to specify other units of time with a suffix. For example, my computer's related SuspendEstimationSec= option is given as 60min in the example and not 3600.