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If you already have a larger Linux laptop that you're otherwise happy with, have you considered just throwing it in a padded laptop backpack?

No, please don't mess it up. While he's off doing pomp and ceremony stuff, he doesn't have his fingers in policy. In fact, a full world tour of all British territory might be warranted.

Why should the Pacific Ocean be named "the Pacific Ocean" when it could be "the American Ocean"?

I mean, he's some random 19-year-old who worked for Elon before. I doubt that he's personally done anything especially reprehensible at DOGE. The problem isn't so much him as it is other people placing him in the role he was placed in.

If you went to work at American Airlines as a high level executive and hired a 19-year-old who worked for you at some Burger King outlet as a pilot because he's a good guy and you know him and you think that he can learn on the job, the problem here isn't really the 19-year-old. It's you being wildly irresponsible with your hiring.

I wouldn't support beating up on those people for bad decisions on the part of others.

What did you think of the new aiming system? I’ve heard mixed things, but it sounded good to me (or at least way better than a flat percentage).

I don't know what the internal mechanics are like, haven't read material about it. From a user standpoint, I have just a list of positive and negative factors impacting my hit chance, so less information about my hit chance. I guess I'd vaguely prefer the percentage --- I generally am not a huge fan of games that have the player rely on mechanics trying to hide the details of those mechanics --- but it's nice to know what inputs are present. It hasn't been a huge factor to me one way or the other, honestly; I mean, I feel like I've got a solid-enough idea of roughly what the chances are.

even if it doesn’t hit the same highs as JA2, there hasn’t really been much else that comes close and a more modern coat of polish would be welcome.

Yeah, I don't know of other things that have the strategic aspect. For the squad-based tactical turn-based combat, there are some options that I've liked playing in the past.

While Wasteland 2 and Wasteland 3 aren't quite the same thing --- they're closer to Fallout 1 and 2, as Wasteland 1 was a major inspiration for them --- the squad-based, turn-based tactical combat system is somewhat similar, and if you're hunting for games that have that, you might also enjoy that.

I also played Silent Storm and enjoyed it, though it's now pretty long in the tooth (well, so is Jagged Alliance 2...). Even more of a combat focus. Feels lower budget, slightly unfinished.

And there's X-Com. I didn't like the new ones, which are glitzy, lots of time spent doing dramatic animations and stuff, but maybe I should go back and give them another chance.

I mean, yes, but a Mac is also a personal computer (PC), despite the fact that "PC" has also been used to distinguish a Windows machine from a Mac machine for a long time. Terms can have multiple meanings.

All of that said, consider replacing your central ducted unit with a multi-head mini-split system in the long run.

Mini splits don't provide ventilation, whereas ducted systems do. In general, if one can have a ducted system, I'd rather have that. The major problem with ducted systems is that ductwork takes up a lot of space, so it's hard to stick into an existing house; much less of an issue if you can build it in during construction. A mini split is less invasive to an existing structure.

Just don’t get a portable unit. They suck and are just a waste of money most of the times.

Get a dual-hose unit if you get one. There are a lot of companies selling single-hose units. Those are a lot less efficient and aren't much cheaper. I would guess that in a situation where they get any kind of meaningful use, a dual-hose unit pays for itself quickly.

I don't think I'd agree that they suck, but if you can use a window unit --- not all rooms and windows are amenable to this --- you normally want a window unit instead of a portable unit, unless you must take down the AC unit on a regular basis. Less noise inside, more energy efficiency.

Yes.

The Threadiverse has multiple intercompatible "Reddit-alike" software packages.

• Lemmy (the biggest). Example: https://lemmy.world/ Written in the Rust programming language.
• PieFed. Example: https://piefed.social/ Written in the Python programming language.
• Mbin (the successor of the defunct Kbin project). Example: https://fedia.io/ Written in the PHP programming language.

There's also Sublinks, written in Java, but I don't know for sure whether that's going to actually get the ball rolling. https://demo.sublinks.org/ Think they need more developers contributing.

EDIT: Note that while this approach is unusual for the centralized Web-oriented social media era, where typically one company controls the whole shebang and has one codebase, it is common for federated systems. There are many different NNTP server implementations for Usenet, many different XMPP server implementations for instant messaging, many different IRC server implementations for chat, many different SMTP server implementations for email, many different FidoNet implementations.

dull...fixed my washing machine

I mean, an incorrectly-operating washing machine can make things quite exciting indeed.

I'd also add that ASCII has had some similar issues in the part, but that tends to have been ironed out by now via changes to onscreen typefaces.

For example, some old typewriters don't have a "0" key or a "1" key because capital-o and lowercase-l looked similar enough and context was sufficient to let them be used in place of the corresponding number. This trained some people to do that, to the point that various software adapted to permit misuse of one in the place of the other. To this day, I can open up Firefox, and the following webpage will render green text:

        <html><font color="#OOFFOO">green text
    </font></html>


  

Some other fixes were were made over time, like making capital-i, lowercase-l, and the pipe ("I", "l", and "|") as more-visually-distinct characters in typefaces where this matters.

In the monospaced font world, "programming" or "coding" fonts, where not confusing the character in question is particularly important, place a premium on keeping characters like this particularly distinctive, even at the cost of trading off some aesthetic appeal or conforming to traditional typography or handwriting-like conventions for letters. You'll get more-distinctive "." and ",", "O" and "0", "l", "I", and "|", "j" and "i", etc.

Not what you asked, but you might check that:

• The central AC doesn't need to be recharged. If it has leaked coolant and is low, it will drop in effectiveness.
• Or, even more simply, that the air filters don't need to be replaced.
• You can't improve insulation. Doing so is a one-off cost, as opposed to the ongoing cost of throwing more air conditioning muscle at the problem. Weatherstrip leaks, replace any single-pane windows with double-pane, etc.

Unicode has a lot of "lookalike" characters, so if you're allowed to select characters as a unique identifier to other users, permitting selection of arbitrary Unicode characters opens the possibility to impersonate users.

I believe that there is some system for dealing with this for domain names, as they permit for Unicode and being able to uniquely identify domains is important. I don't know if this could be generalized to other Unicode-using applications.

I strongly doubt that they'd render Steam not runnable on their distro.

Webster tried to reform English, and was a reason for a number of the American English changes from British English. Some of his changes caught on, like "public" for "publick" or "jail" for "gaol".

But others did not.

I think that some of those ones that didn't catch on would be good candidates.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/53723/26-noah-webster%E2%80%99s-spelling-changes-didn%E2%80%99t-catch

E.g. "Island" to "Iland".

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/noah-websters-spelling-wins-and-fails

Or "is" to "iz".

The election here was the Democratic primary. It didn't cut the Democrats out of the loop.

with a passion. It just doesn't do what its supposed to, its not searching anything at all. Ive literally tried and written every word of the video title plus the channel name and it didnt show up bc I put onen word in the wrong spot.

If you want to just treat each search term independently, that works for me. Searching for battle of the solomons eastern has a top hit of "Battle of the Eastern Solomons".

Oh, okay, the Garand uses an eight round clip, and the rounds aren't inline. I thought that they were inline, and that each clip in the image was two four-round clips sitting atop each other. Well, today I learned something. Thanks.

EDIT:

.30-06 ammunition for the M1903, 1903A3, and M1917 rifles and the Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) was issued in five round stripper clips

That may be what I saw and confused it with, because those look pretty much exactly like the clip that I had thought went in the M1 Garand.

Confused the clip on the US issue rifle for WW1 and WW2.

I'm sorry, you are correct. The syntax and interface mirrors docker, and one can run ollama in Docker, so I'd thought that it was a thin wrapper around Docker, but I just went to check, and you are right --- it's not running in Docker by default. Sorry, folks! Guess now I've got one more thing to look into getting inside a container myself.

Can someone here more in the know explain this one for me? I see a clip, and I think that this is some kind of ludicrously hacked-up M1 Garand, but I thought that the Garand used a five-round clip, and those have four rounds.