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At least in Debian (Trixie), I have a list in: /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose

That is a recipe for pain too: menus shouldn't be morphing as the user is trying to choose an option.

I'm probably pretty far out on the normal mobile user curve: my phone is primarily used for phone calls along with some texting and I don't even have a data plan.

I would suspect many mobile users would be faster than me (I know people who can go astonishingly fast), although I can (or at least used to be able to) type much faster on the BB keyboard than my phone screen. I am a decent typist though, so for most communication over a sentence I will resort to email using a desktop or laptop. I hate typing on laptop keyboards though and use an external one. I'm also not a fan of a bunch of back and forth texting, so for conversations like that it's usually better resolved with a call.

I used a Blackberry Classic up until last year when my provider dropped 3G coverage. It's probably a good thing as I never got phone addiction since the browser was unusable and didn't have the apps. I did get in the habit of carrying an iPad with me though for that: but at least then you only pull it out when necessary. I might have to check out the Zinwa retrofit kits mentioned in the article: I do miss the hardware keyboard when using the Android I replaced it with.

The Pinephone with the keyboard accessory was tempting too, but the software readiness (and older hardware) didn't seem practical as a daily driver.

$10K seems like a generous donation to me: good on them for making one.

You can’t complain about the amount because you don't know what other donations they make. I would rather see $10K donations made to a bunch of different projects than a single big donation to one project. That way if one company has a bad year (or goes out of business) projects are not left scrambling to replace their sponsor. As the saying goes, “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket”.

It sounds like the parent comment was referring to geological timescales. In that case, the 16th century would count as recent.

We are starting to offer a new product for this for small business/startups. It is still pretty early and we're just starting to expand into the US, but it is something (https://nucleus.com/).

I have one: 2008 Nissan Altima

The first day of this reminds me of how impressive the asynchronous and concurrent features of Raku are. I really need to start using it for the odd project.

I do use it on shift cables and derailleur mechanisms. Mostly because I haven't figured out anything that is a better solution.

Yes, that is probably true: I have kept a minimum balance ever since opening the bank account so I am not really familiar with how it all works. I have heard the horror stories though about how the bank will order the transactions to incur the maximum fees (at $20 or more per transaction) if you miscalculate the balance when the bank account is close to empty.

There are a lot of free options: even more if you consider ones that require a minimum balance. The paid ones though are typically $10-15.

Where they really get you though is in service fees. If you overdraft or do any one of a myriad of options you can get hit with penalty fees. Basically you just have to treat the minimum balance as a hard zero.

Most people just open the windows for that use case: a whole house fan can be used for making the air exchange faster through.

Those junkyards are getting few and far between because of liability insurance costs. Now the parts have to be ordered and pulled off for you, which makes it uneconomical for low value parts. Often, just the high value parts are pulled and the car is crushed.

The Accenture software outsourcing debacle was probably a big contributing factor to the Hertz bankruptcy too.

Yes, new models typically start being available around September: I always thought it was absurd too as a kid growing up, but it makes sense when you consider that competitive marketing pressures would drive manufacturers to release the new cars earlier and earlier. You can check the sticker somewhere around the driver's door to see when a vehicle was actually manufactured.

I don’t speak French either but I like the etymological sense that Superior school means Post-Secondary/College better than the English version. It seems like a logical and efficient way to get the meaning across.

There is a paywall on the WSJ article linked from this: https://archive.is/uvaPg

It is amazing how even simple things can become difficult when you lose an ability. I recently had a hand injury and it became almost impossible to open packaging and jars: things you take for granted. Same thing with everything becoming touch screens: a lot of people tend to remember things spatially (especially as they age) and it becomes tough to learn where and what to do when buttons are replaced with changing screens.

That is an interesting thought: although, it is something that non-native speakers struggle with when learning a new language. I wonder if that is a factor when learning a new computer language/concept too.

I suspect it is also related to the Curse of Knowledge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge). Once you are past the hurdle of initially learning a concept it makes it hard to imagine not being able to grasp it: especially when dealing with abstract concepts such as scopes.

Although, if you are performing serious work loads like that, why not just take the 10s to plug in the Ethernet cable? It seems like for these use cases you already would be using the laptop with the power cable hooked up.

I could see farm equipment as a great use case for swappable battery packs. There are loaders readily available for lifting them into place and they could be made easy to access as the equipment does not need to be compact.

Slackware: Plasma 5 was just moved from testing this week in Current (for the upcoming Slackware 15).

Back then there was no memory vs speed tradeoff as the constraint is to minimize memory. It makes sense when you realize it has to be as simple as possible: there is no memory budget for the code or data structures to be more computationally efficient.

> I really can't see any other way they could do it without creating some kind of proprietary YouTube client.

The next step is probably go with Widevine: but YouTube probably doesn’t want to go there unless it has to.

That is pretty common: smokers are already acclimatized to low oxygen, so they cope well with the altitude.

Not that I would suggest taking up smoking to go on a mountain hike.

Thunderbird has three search methods: quick search allows you to filter by Sendor (unselect Recipients), but you can also do a more granular search using EditFindSearch Messages (Ctrl+Shift+F). I don’t use the other Ctrl+K search much.

Yak shaving is a term I use when I run into a chain of tasks.

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/YakShavingDefinedIllGetThatDo...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fnfeuoh4s8

I hit that too: it was a known bug in SSMS and Microsoft released an update that fixed it.

The article just calls it a feature of the “new Edge browser”.

Bombardier has already tried: they ended up partnering with Airbus to market the C-series (now A220).