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https://xkcd.com/2501/

https://m.xkcd.com/2501/

I'm fortnightly* helping some friends upgrade from win7 to more modern windows. They're smart people, one's an accountant, the other a school librarian. But since neither of their professions nor their hobbies are computer technical they need help

They're currently at the step "ring Microsoft to troubleshoot the licence"

*They host the d&d game

My partner's Linux box runs fine and has had no faults that needed my help in the 10 years it's been showing her news, email, and web

It's a lot more stable than it was years and years ago

If you had a question that attracted an expert in a relevant field, you'd get a good answer. If your question didn't attract them you'd get a random internet stranger

You could simply murder one of the players

If you want to include the lot it's "the Americas"

The camel book was on perl. It had no hope of being taken seriously

This is the legit cover

Many play Minecraft in dwarf mode

Agreed. A sliding window can be securely locked partially open. Tilt swing windows aren't secure enough to leave a window open while away

It is a security opening. People cannot climb through a tilted window

There are, of course, tools to defeat those windows since they're popular.

The idea is protection from crime. You can have the window tilted and thieves theoretically cannot climb in through that window, where a swinging or sliding window while open allows someone to climb in through it

Of course in practice they're less safe where they're popular as there is a tool, a hook, which allows someone breaking in to hook the handle, pull the tilted window shut, and open it again in swinging mode, allowing them in

My understanding is sliding windows are the easiest to secure as you can bolt lock them at any point of openness. My sliding windows have bolt points at closed and at 5cm open

With the weather outside today in my Australian town a nice 24°C temperature I have a window at each end of the house open.

At one end of the house the window tilts (bottom out), the window at the other end other slides.

The sliding window has much more space — half of the viewing area — open to the breeze than the tilting

Rent a place with air con installed?

America tends to build with the cheapest materials. So wood framed houses are clad in wood or plastic

Australia copied a lot from America. Our houses also are wood framed, but we use brick cladding and concrete tile roofs

New tech is more available now. If I were to build today it would be out of foamed plastic and reinforced concrete (as insulated concrete forms). And I'd use tilt/swing windows

That doesn't work well since America is the common name for the US, and we can the continent the US, Canada, and Mexico share North America

There's no conservation of mass, you can wildshape into an elephant, load up with goods to your carrying capacity, then change to a raven and fly back, then back to the elephant to unload.

I have always played and DM'd that wildshaped druids can take their normal meal times like the animal would. So if they're crossing a plain the druid could reduce the need for supplies by being a horse and eating grass

If we're playing by area, I seem to have won. But also, when was the last prosecution for mailing cash (where it wasn't part of a more significant crime?

Unenforced law isn't very powerful

For a while it seemed like that minority owned the term "feminism"

The men who are worried about being hunted for sport have been told too many times that that's what should happen to them