AnUnusualRelic

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[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Just update weekly. It's an easy fix.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I've always found Ubuntu to be fairly brittle. I used it briefly after Mandrake but never liked it much.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

Beware of ticks, land mines, and bear traps.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

I confess to having given up on marvel a while ago.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 18 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (3 children)

Don't a lot of bad things also tend to happen in Texas, given the awesome management team they've got there?

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

The cake isn't a lie?

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

They'll sic the marines on you and they'll eat your pencil!

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Also they're a fairly small market. Which is also why there are few Chinese bad guys.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

There's even the en-dash, the hyphen and the minus sign, which are theoretically all typographically distinct.

And the audience comments could scroll by on the side! Brilliant!

There's Encrypted Client Hello, supported by major browsers that does the SNI encryption. It's starting to be fairly widely supported.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's a few tens of thousands, not a huge number, but significant for a small country. Also not necessarily younger ones. Families are moving out too. Greece is the first destination at the moment.

 

I was just watching "American Primeval", when it occurred to me (again) that the US was a place where oddball religions could prosper. Two recent successful examples of very weird ones being Mormons and Scientology (although the latter is a bit less successful lately).

Why is it that weird things catch on so readily in the US?

Of course, the "founders" were people that were kicked out of everywhere else because they were trying to convert them to their extremist religious views (and yet US people are fond of trying to find family ties to them... "hey, my great, great, great grand father was a religious lunatic! But yours wasn't")

So now, Mormons (Jews totally rowed to the US, for some reason, and then Jesus came there, and there were horses, and cities, and there's absolutely no archaeological trace, probably because god) have an astounding foothold despite their creed (I'm saying this because I have read the book of Mormon).

Then there's Scientology, and I don't even know where to begin with that one, given how fucked up it is... If you don't know about it, start with Wikipedia.

Also (probably not finally, there's certainly more) there's the innumerable bizarre Christianity stuff in the US. It's such a mess. I don't even think that most of the evangelical groups are technically Christians.

So apparently,, in the US, anything goes. The holy Flying Spaghetti Monster, blessed be it's meat balls, showed us that. But then what?

The problem with the typical US "let anyone do whatever" is that vulnerable get fleeced at best.

 

Plasma 6 changed the way scrollbars work for some reason. Now when you click somewhere with mouse1 the elevator jums there and the window content scrolls accordingly.

Previously, it would scroll by one window's worth in the appropriate direction. If you wanted to jump to a given location, you just used mouse2 (typically the scroll wheel button nowadays). It has worked that way everywhere for literally decades.

After reading the very weird explanation for the change, I can only conclude that the devs don't even know how to use their interface.

Hence my question, is there a setting somewhere to switch back to the traditional behaviour?

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