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I still use w3m, for basically an easier, less cluttered text based version of a page. Cuts the cpu goblins found in adverts too. Some sites just won't work for me in a modern browser without at least some blocking.

Personally I find w3m easier on my eyes. I have tried to run with it as my primary, but oddly enough some of the full baked browsers still feel faster. That I can't really figure out! It could be pre-fetching or pre-renders, or some other trick.

I tend to have at least one JS disabled browser, with my own stylesheet to ape something akin to the console browsers.

I had some old Dragon 32 tapes from days of old. And when the emu scene turned up, managed to record the tape onto the PC, play an unfinished game of my youth, snapshot it so I could cheat until I finally completed the damn thing. For all of like two minutes I was king.

It is a luxury item. In the UK dairy and meat get subsidised. A pack of sausages cost the same as a red pepper. Go figure!

At the same time farmers here moan that they aren't getting enough money per pint. They are at a loss.

Meanwhile some luxury oat milk costs £1.80 a litre. The plant milks are a nightmare when you consider transportation. Be nicer to have local bottling of these alternatives. At least traditionally dairy farms were a little more localised and smaller.

Exactly. Composer is key here. Pear just didn't work well as a third party bolt on. As a result monolithic frameworks such as Zend Framework were born, along with Blogs, come CMS come frameworks. And Rails clones. It's still hard to navigate the 3rd party landscape, but integration is so much easier.

My main gripe with Php is editor support. Jumping around a code base is hard when you introduce slightly abstract class loading. The more 'typed' the language is, I guess makes editor help easier, with auto completion etc. But that is a disjoint or me.

Editor support for functions is useful. I'm slightly embarassed still at the frequency of my manual lookups.

Class autoloading is nice, but functions are left by the wayside on the autoloading front, which is a bit gnarly.

The language is actually quite quick to learn, and you can hold a lot in your head. You can do a lot just with arrays and foreachs, without having to reach into convenience functions.

Most of my time is laboured over other frameworks and interoperability, rather than any really worry about Php itself.

Due to a broken oven, I've ended up using a breadmaker, and although the results are middle of the road, the simplicity of making a loaf is super. Just throw in the ingredients, set timer, wake to the smell of cooking bread. The kneading is a bit weedy and I get better results by hand. But the breadmaker makes no mess at all.

I can't seem to right scroll under firefox. What am I doing wrong?

Just tried out Tree style tabs, how does this prevent this issue? I have two pages in two tabs open. To read one I resize the window, I go to the other it has been resized also.

Nope, problem is each window may need a different sizing. With a tabbed interface you resize the lot.

Easy to read/follow menu, and a phone call isn't that hard, with front door payment.

Online shopping experiences vary widely. I love it when the interface isn't even noticed/gets out of your way.

There's other cognitive issues here. I find reading from the screen difficult, CRT, LED, OLED, but I'm fine given e-ink. Any web pages with text more than a paragraph or so is sent to an e-reader for me, otherwise I just cannot comprehend the content. I can cope with snippets.

Problem is that tabbed interfaces make window resizing harder.

Bring back MDIs (maybe)!

I often use w3m.

Think Mad Max on mobility scooters. I've stock piled food. The Irish border is already an issue, I was there recently when two bombs were found. I doubt it will be pretty.

They are missing a trick with peer to peer piggy backs.

We have a house without any Internet connection - that would require at least a mobile link.

Yeah I had a manager that was quite good at throwing out functionality. Didn't like it at the time, but they were mostly right - of course they were just trying to save money.

When I couldn't program I almost achieved more! I saved time by picking stuff up and glueing it together. Then later spent ages learning specific softwares, plugins and their wiring only for them to fall out of favour. Later frameworks etc.

A web outfit I worked at should have concentrated on a few small plugins/components that would have handled most of their sites. Instead other behemoths emerged, that added pain and complexity to what should have been very simple sites. Only the author understood the ins and outs of a half finished product, that ended up bastardised for each project, resulting in multiple version hell. But hey this was before good 'Git'ing. Oh for hindsight.

The quotes around 'loud' here, is an emphasis on relativeness.

There is a flyover down the valley and sound flies off that. You only recognise silence in the event of road closure. Then momentary bliss is attained through someone elses misery.

I live rurally near a busy trunk road. I can walk about 1/2 mile away and the road is still in my line of sight, and it is still 'loud' (as in irritating). However, I'm blighted by this road as I'm so close to its proximity. And it disturbs me. However, I did notice when visiting a busy part of town recently that it was a complete aural assualt, and as such, you might hear/perceive less under the cacaphony of much.

I can hear drones that fly over, but it's not a horrible noise. Much car noise these days seems to come from friction on the road as engines have gotten much quieter. So with that in mind, perhaps in all they'd be quieter, but I can't see an easy way to environmentally muffle the sound, could you invert the sound?

That sounds like a way to save a browser session that comprises of tabs. Perhaps a better UI. Many browsers have had the ability to group/tabs/bookmarks. But it's usually quite clunky.

In a UK terrace, even given a large bay window, your view will likely be squandered by a large work van, as the terraces seldom have off-street parking.

That's slightly smaller than ours probably all in all. But I've seen smaller, like the one up, one down back to backs in Leeds/Woodhouse and many modern flats apartments, are just broom cupboards - but then you look at down town Japan and this feels palacial.

That's larger than mine. Sizes are getting smaller. Can't comment for the rest of Europe but the UK has quite a bad homeless problem, it's very visible at the moment. Rents are prohibitively high, and getting onto the housing ladder is very difficult. Small houses - even semi-detached bungalows around our way are at least £300k (edit: oops missed a 0 originally!). The housing stock is shockingly bad in the UK, and very expensive.

I bought a Pi 0 W. The USB port failed on it. Sent it back, the second did the same. Booted probably about 10 times in all. That was the end of that.

We do have another room, that's slightly larger but it's a bit bleak. And weirdly it's a more fussy room to furnish. The smaller size is better in the winter. The old brick terraces aren't that warm. In large houses people can gravitate to smaller rooms for that reason. Personally I'd like a large room that I could bring the furniture in from the sides. Lucky to even have a house to live in to be honest, so can't really grumble.

I'm still struggling a bit with large screens. For something like playing games I'm guessing you can comfortably sit back. High resolution screens for computers feel attractive, but getting up close and personal can feel a bit much with light levels. I'm guessing OLED might be nicer in that regard.

In the UK in a victorian terrace, and our front room is perhaps on the small side at about 3x4m. I'd guess somewhere between that and 4x5m is about average. For us 32inch still can feel imposing. And that size screen seems to be being phased out.

Thanks for the pointers.

Perhaps keep them clear of the idea. And stick to Windows. Assuming they can do Window management...

I've an 84 year old family member, who still doesn't get tabs. Heck they don't really get the Web. And are kind of stuck in their Web Email client. I got an alarming call one day saying they'd hosed all their emails. But it turned out they'd failed to log into their email account, ended up creating a new one, and then wondered why their inbox was empty.

Can you add a brief explainer?