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Sailfish is great if you live in Europe and are able to buy a Sony phone. I used it for a few years in the UK and I’d love to continue to use it in Australia, but Telstra has decided to disable phones bought overseas; Sony doesn’t directly sell phones here, so I’m out of luck😢

Just laugh and move on. It’s not going to happen.

These people have no idea what they’re talking about. They think that the developers of four hundred Linux distros, FreeDOS, Haiku, *nix, the BSDs, are even going to bother trying. Then you have industrial boxen running obsolete operating systems, routers, all the network devices that run the internet.

EDIT: and then every application that runs on every platform also needs to be updated. Like that’s going to happen.

If they really cared about the children, they would just physically cut the cables at the Colorado border. That’s the only way that any sort of access control can be enforced.

When I discovered that I am autistic, and probably have ADHD, I realised that I really had been the weird bad guy all my life.

No, he’s just having a senile moment.

• Be excellent to each other
• If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you ever tried
• If at first you do succeed, try to hide your astonishment
• The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing

I’ve only ever ridden mine a few tens of meters above the ground, but you’re right, still high enough to hurt if I fell off. It’s not really as unstable as you make out, more like a floating mat in a swimming pool.

Been touch typing Dvorak for about 25 years, qwerty for about 10 years before that. My hands used to feel tired at the end of the day, when I broke my wrist the occupational nurse suggested Dvorak, so when it healed I taught myself to type Dvorak. Probably a few weeks to learn, six months to get speed. (The advantage of a cushy government job). I can type all day now without problems. If you’re going to spend any significant time at a keyboard, I personally think it’s worth investing the time to learn to type properly, whatever layout you choose to use.

Daddy grips the wheel and stares alone into the distance
He knows that something somewhere has to break
He sees the family home now
Looming in his headlights
The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache

• Koyaanitsqatsi, etc
• Eraserhead
• The Man Who Fell to Earth
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show

• The Curiosity Show
• Thunderbirds

Never heard of that before, what country are you in?

A blonde walks into a bar and asks for a double entendre.

So the barman gave it to her.

He died while the procedure was being performed at a private clinic in March 2019

I wondered why he wasn’t answering my calls! Why are we only just finding out about this now?

there are a few articles on hackaday. that’s all I’ve got

About thirty years too late. That horse has bolted long ago.

Go straight to the emergency room, get it properly cleaned out, and get a tetanus shot. When my hand got mangled by a dog they sent me straight from emergency to plastic surgery, they had to open the wound, peel back the skin, and clean the inside. Don’t take the risk of it getting infected.

Pink Floyd.

Some of their music is nice to listen to. Some of it is catchy. Most of it is just boring.

Anj ?

In Australia, it’s common to shorten names, then add:

• “-o” suffix to names ending with a consonant sound. Thus, David>Dave>Davo, Steven>Steve>Stevo, John>Johnno, Dominique>Dom>Dommo
• “-az” or “-azza” to names ending with, or containing, an “ar” syllable. Gary>Gaz or Gazza, Sharon>Shaz or Shazza, Barry>Bazza
• ”-ie” (“ee” sound) to names ending with a vowel sound (but sometimes with consonant sound too). Stuart>Stew>Stewie, Frank>Frankie, Don>Donnie