noughtnaut

I haven’t seen Our Groceries listed yet. I don’t know Grocy so I don’t know how this one compares, bells-wise, but it’s pretty straightforward, you can share a list with any number of users, and manage/add/edit/remove lists and items via a web app or mobile app.

I’ve sent the devs more than one feature suggestion / bug report, and they were impressively responsive and forthcoming.

I’m not an artist, I just need the occasional hack job or screenshot annotation.

I loved the simple programs (this love stems from all the way back to MacPaint v1.0) and MS Paint has largely been ok for me apart from its lack of png support and only 90° rotations.

On Linux, Pinta has been fantastic but these last few years it got increasingly more crashy, to the point where it will now consistently crash within 10 seconds or two clicks, regardless of Linux distro / laptop/pc / version of Pinta. (insert “whyyyyy” meme here)

I’ve tried Krita, but it’s simply too much. Don’t even want to try installing Gimp. I am sad.

Thank you for that information.

One might also say, with the dire current state of browser competition, it won’t make much of a difference.

I’m just privately hopping that Firefox won’t lose its last few percent market share and go the way of the dodo. 🤞🥹

Yes, I’m really confused about this article - isn’t what you describe still in effect? Why on earth not? (I haven’t used Windows in ages so I personally have never seen that.)

So many people believe that Covid was a way to scare us all indoors, so they could change batteries in all the birds.

That’s preposterous.

Birds use rechargeables, that’s why they’re always sitting on the power lines. Like, duh, wake up sheeple.

Good for you! Seriously!

For the rest of us, a few notes on how you accomplished this would be sha-weet! I think sketch up is the most approachable 3d program, but all my “post Windows” attempts have resulted in crashes and freezes. 😥

I’m honestly pleasantly surprised to see that this project seems to be rather actively developed.

Which is completely separate from having a meaningful user base (near you), so 🤷

I’m with you, but see a million obstacles (aka. reasons for why things require payments).

You would need some form of moderation, to weed out illegal content as well as simply bots, spam, and dead profiles. Also for message content. I’ve given it some thought and suspect it can be crowd sourced to some degree, but also needs counter balances. Instead of limiting a profile to be live/banned, you could have a percentage score of peer-reported subjective legitimacy (ditto for message responses, heck you could even have a section of outright reviews of the person’s behaviour - although that, again would be subject to abuse and moderation).

Hosting, traffic, etc. would be an unavoidable cost, but can be mitigated with low resolution photos (VGA should be “good enough” for an initial impression, no?)

For sure, an open source solution would offer way more fine grained filtering.

Cars should just come with a big open socket up front, where I can buy (or build) my own infotainment system to install there.

…which is precisely what we used to have, before auto makers decided to insist that they should be enclosed in a swooping dash.

Seriously, how do you even get the data to make such graphs?

On another note, I don’t have much sympathy for people who clearly “swipe right on everyone”. I am aware that it’s a numbers game, but have since standards, man.

On a similar note, back when I was playing a lot of shooters I would catch myself strafing around hallway corners at work 😅

Be warned: not everybody gets this.

Myself, I’ve tried 5-6 different meds and have had nothing in the ways of the described. Might as well have been taking vitamins.

Just so you don’t get too disappointed…

Well there was also gobo Linux, which would let you play Tetris while the installation did its thing.

Dragging a floppy to the bin would simply eject it… 🤷 Well all right, maybe the story is from before the intro of the “Insert disk Foo”.

Seconded.

I’ve read most of folklore.org and do not recall any such story. In fact, how do you even “drag the computer to the waste basket” as the first/only icon would be the System floppy and afaik they’ve never had / still don’t have a “computer icon”. 🤔

How the hell do I set up my NAS (Synology) and laptop so that I have certain shares mapped when I’m on my home network - AND NOT freeze up the entire machine when I’m not???

For years I’ve been un/commenting a couple of lines in my fstab but it’s just not okay to do it that way.

…which you’d think has all already been done, since Europe pretty much uses the same airplanes as the US, so compatible equipment ought to exist.

There’s the Internet archive archive. It’s being funded by all the excess donations that archive.org themselves can’t find a way to spend.

No, they would still have missed out on those 104k - but they would have saved 150M. That’s … yeah. A lot of school lunch meals.

Clarke’s 3001 had a whole post script about all the sci-fi elements that had actually been realised since he wrote 2001 (back in 1968). It’s rather an interesting list, but unfortunately my copy of the book is buried deep in a moving box atm. so I’m not going to quote it.