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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  They didn’t make a turn into a crossing. It turned onto the tracks.

  Just to be clear for others, it did so at a crossing. That’s still obviously not what it should have done and it’s no defence of the self-driving feature, but I read your comment as suggesting it had found its way onto train tracks by some other route.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you think early humans survived without water bottles? Did they just live next to water sources all the time?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And skins, tanned, stitched, and treated with resin. Pottery is also an ancient skill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is cottage cheese the only cheese defined by some relationship to a building?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Roquefort-sur-Soulzon would have taken its name from a fortress, too, so that counts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quick fix for cracked plastic clip: thread wrap and superglue⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quick fix for cracked plastic clip: thread wrap and superglue⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve not used a Dremel - are you clamping the filament end-on, kind of like a pencil lead? Would a drill potentially work in the same way, if so, if you can align it in the chuck properly?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says a 25% tariff "must be paid by Apple" on iPhones not made in the US, says he told Tim Cook long ago that iPhones sold in the US must be made in the US⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the dumbest comment I’ve read all day but I’ve been chuckling about it for a good couple of minutes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: The Guardian is one of the only newspapers in Australia and Britain to refuse all gambling ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sonia Sodha is still a contributor to The Guardian and is a massive TERF. The Guardian is one of the better news outlets in the UK, but so long as they give her a platform, fuck them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3080: "Tennis Balls"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Qualified “explain” link for mobile users: explainxkcd.com/3080

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck / Gaming News #11⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sad for sure, but the person running the AMA is comically tone-deaf and unprepared.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck / Gaming News #11⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Great post.

  Here’s the Dreadmoor AMA on r/pcgaming on Reddit. It’s a disaster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cooking With Fire - Feddit UK⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Non-web ref: !cooking_with_fire@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  great(adj.)

  Old English great “big, thick, stout, coarse” from West Germanic *grauta- “coarse, thick” (source also of Old Saxon grot)

  (Trimmed for humor, but not otherwise changed).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3069: Terror Bird⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Funnily enough, Brontornis does now most frequently get placed in Anserimorphae alongside waterfowl, whereas it was previously most often thought to be a terror bird (though I should say there’s still plenty of debate). It’s thought to be heavier than any terror bird at possibly as much as 400kg - where the average horse apparently weighs 500kg.

  Being extinct, I assume no one ever told it how to get to Sesame Street.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With every exhale, we're smelling the inside of our lungs.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  and sometimes itn’t

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The internet used to come through the phone, now the phone goes through the internet.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In a sense, that’s what phreaking was, if a toy whistle from a breakfast cereal box counts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Untraceable airplanes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Already covered in the OP!

  they don’t show up on flight radar or adsbexchane even with government filters turned on

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Literally just a copy”—hit iOS game accused of unauthorized HTML5 code theft⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The ripoff artist made $42,0000.00

  Not quite that much ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Government announces plan to open up Land Registry⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  owner:wikidata=* does exist, though I don’t think anyone tends to map land ownership other than occasional estates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who are these 3 other guys in the car with Coolio in the "Fantastic Voyage" music video?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  B-Real pops up at around 3:30 in the video, he’s not in the car.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘People spontaneously strip off and join us’: nude cyclists send message you don’t need to be buff⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A chamois is normal in cycling pants, and even underwear keeps things somewhat in-place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're remaking Morrowind as a Skyrim mod. Here's a charity livestream we held on the weekend.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  BGs have shown us nothing but good will, we’re following their guidelines strictly on assets - i.e. nothing ported, everything remade from scratch - and we’re requiring both Morrowind and Skywind to be installed… but there’s no guarantee. We’re not stressed about it.

• We're remaking Morrowind as a Skyrim mod. Here's a charity livestream we held on the weekend.youtu.be ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Specifically: tabs, dark mode, and retention of unsaved documents. They’re apps for very different purposes, but Notepad has had some nice little updates over recent years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are you brewing?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I did a lazy ginger beer over Christmas, but I wanted it vegan and it didn’t clear in time through an extended cold crash. I put it in a plastic keg with CO2 shortly after Christmas, but I was worried about the haziness so I didn’t share it for New Years either.

  I used quite a lot of sugar and it fermented dry, but I didn’t bother checking the OG, so I have no idea how strong it is (though I’d guess it’s 6% or so).

  End result: while most people I know are attempting Dry January, I’m drinking a lot of ginger beer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"It seems likely Elon Musk has lost over half of the UK twitter daily audience by now"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pub buildings built on the cheap or converted (i.e. single storey, flat roof) are almost always a reliable predictor for terrible beer, aggressive clientele, and a regular light dusting of snow on the bathroom sinks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The country is done for⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why stop there? Time to campaign for fee, hee, jee, kee, etc.

  L, M, N and O get a free pass because they’re really just a prefix to P, not letters in their own right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good list! We differ on some of them…

  I take issue with the settings menu still relying on the old menus while having shuffled things around so I’m forced to look for settings

  This is still an issue, but I feel it’s diminishing as they (annoyiongly slowly) do move all of the functionality to the new app. It was much worse in Windows 10, I think.

  I can say that the start menu is horrendously slow, it can take up to 5 seconds for it to load.

  “Works on my machine” is a profoundly unhelpful answer for me to give, but I’m fortunate enough not to have experienced this. If you’re looking for a workaround and don’t mind a further Microsoft app, the launcher in Powertoys is pretty solid.

  Sometimes keystrokes disappear in the start menu only to magically appear some time later.

  God, I hate the search from the start menu - but I would say that it’s been profoundly broken since Windows 8 and is marginally better in Windows 11.

  They made the right click menu worse and only changeable in regedit.

  100% agreed. I do think Windows 10 and earlier had a growing issue with the context menus getting unwieldy (Visual Studio is a great demo of how this can get really out of hand) but the solution Windows 11 have brought is annoying more than useful. I suspect at one point I made the registry change and forgot about it, because I’m back to a big Win10-style list.

  They made RDP credentials only saveable using CMD.

  Agreed again. That said, you’re a masochist if you’re not using an RDP manager like mRemoteNG! I wish Microsoft had a decent RDP app that wasn’t tied into Azure.

  They removed vertical taskbars.

  I found vertical taskbars incompatible with hotdesking on desks with different monitor configurations, but I do agree this one sucks.

  how to unfuck up windows 11 so it works how you expect it to.

  I think “how you expect it to” goes to the core of my point - needing to adapt to change isn’t inherently bad. But I’m not pretending Windows 11 is a wholesale improvementy, and I do concede many of your arguments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agree with all of those points, I just don’t love the reductive notion that every change is a bad change and nothing’s been for the better. In several ways it’s a better OS - but as you say, they are also getting more contemptuous of the end user with things like privacy, anticompetitivity, and ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At the risk of being unpopular, I think a lot of what people perceive as unintuitive or worse in terms of settings and OS features is just change. I’m on Enterprise Windows 11 at work and I wouldn’t willingly go back to Windows 10.

  I think because it’s Enterprise I’m dodging a lot of the worst of it - ads, telemetry, surprise updates, etc - but the unified settings are better once you learn them, tabbed File Explorer is better, dark mode switching is way better - there’s plenty to like.

  I want to see the rise of the Linux desktop as much as anyone, but implying Windows 11 is all bad isn’t that fair an assessment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The EFF have more information about location data brokers. Well worth a read.