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It’d mean we’re all gonna be just dirt in the ground.

Evolution dosen’t make “mistakes” though, and there is no “progress” or “development”; those are probably self-deception by some lifeforms that are too self-aware.

Evolution just ‘happens’, and the resultant mix of lifeforms and traits mutually ‘adapt’ to the ecosystem and wider environment.

I think I had a demo of one of the mechwarrior games, but it ran slow on my PC, or was a bit boring, or something, I never got on with it.

It was in the doom era though , and very little could compete (from my perspective) - so probably i just played doom coop (until it turns into defacto deathmatch) anyway. I mean that was most of the 1990s the way i remember it.

Certainly the mechwarrior demo wouldn’t have had networking anyway - but i feel like maybe it got less out of my meagre hardware than doom did.

Honest question: What were the best games developed directly by ms on it’s own. I can only think of flight simulator, and that’s not really a game. I just genuinely don’t think I’ve played any.

I mean ignoring minesweeper and space cadet pinball or whatever.

Oh maybe like forza motorsport? was that them?

It’s weird that they don’t brand them - I guess B2B is too important to them to risk reputation on frivolity. Which is odd because of all the f-words i could use about sharepoint, i think frivolous is about the nicest.

I know yanks hate decimal and stuff because of how hard the mental arithmetic is, but it’s half of the more significant digit. I guess and they wanted more precision than 10s, but don’t see the need for 1s, so they split it in half or the equipment is not capable of more precision.

TBH - I don’t know what a dungaree fezundheit is anyway, but I’d imagine 5F is way spurious accuracy already for a domestic oven. I reckon you’d need an industrial or scientific kiln for that type of accuracy - so it’s probably more a psychology / user interface thing. In which case the answer is, ‘because enough customers are happy enough with it as it is.’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oBXOIbAtZw

There’s a boot key press combination to interrupt normal start up and select an alternative boot medium. Usually things like f12, f1, del, or esc, mashed at the right time after power-on.

For locked down devices like modern smartphones and probably games consoles etc, it’s a lot more involved, and it may be next to impossible to boot a different OS, but there’s often a combo to get at least into a factory reset boot menu.

Edit: lookinto ‘system-rescue-cd’ or ‘knoppix’ which are pretty useful USBs to have around lots of tools to try to mount and recover disks and move data . ‘clonezilla’ can also be useful to create a disk image before you try any risky steps.

Beware Modern windows likes to encrypt which might impede those tools. I’ve seen cases where the user doesn’t know (claims to never have been told!) the decryption key. In those cases recovery may be hard/complex in some scenarios.

But a proper backup system (3-2-1 , fairly often) for important data is a far better way to prepare for “shit”. And “the cloud is not a complete backup system” is not a bad a general rule.

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I have.

A mailing list i liked - giving upcoming concerts, with worthwhile opinions on the musicians, was having to comply with GDPR, they sent a few reminders for me to to do something before some deadline.

I didn’t do it by accident. So i got unsubscribed, and i never really found out how to resubscribe.

no, there’s also me.

homo sapiens cuntiens

Doesn’t a lute have a sharply bent back head, and usually way more than four strings. I thought it was essentially just an oud. akksshully

Probably. I , for one, reject all NASA lies, ‘barren rock’ - my arse. I think they already found the soup wells, probably killed the dragon, and are keeping all the soup for themselves.

its not ‘treason’ that bothers me. Its the state supported accumulation of excessive power , and the despicable consequences thereof.

I’d strongly support burning all them cunts though.

Be careful what you wish for. You should probably aspire to like Bhutan, or wherever the Clangers live. Somewhere nice.

This dude cares more about union jack than most Farage voters. Not sure who I’m supposed to hate more vigorously.
Oh , thats a lie, i do actually know which ones are the biggest cunts.

No. My records can exist in one, and only one, slot on the shelf. So fuck everyone else and their modern crap. /s

Seriously though, i do much prefer physical media and all its inconvenient rituals . mp3s are great like radio, but slightly less so, but i’m never going to consider them real music. TBF i even more prefer it when the musicians are on stage and literally make sounds by manually wobbling instruments . I cant imagine anything less efficient.

It’s a bit rotten, I must agree.

oh right, cool. i’ll stick to my chunky chunks then.

Is there such a thing?

I’ve had a few crappy ones, they’re basically e-waste after a few uses or trips. So I revert to a full size internal sata one or the same but in a 5.1/4" external caddy (powered).

You don’t download or install aur itself. It’s a repository of packages.

Helper programs like paru make it easier for you to connect to, search, download, build and update packages from the repo.

You can also use other methods, for example ‘git’ to clone the source for the package and build it yourself, but the helper programs should also help fetch dependencies.

As with everything in arch, the wiki is recommended reading: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_helpers https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository