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Agreed. Also the cropping of image previews to square format. You literally can't see the portrait orientation of the Xero Alto monitor. Argh.

Requiring an unobstructed view of the sky is pretty incompatible with sailboats anyways, unless you stick it at the top of the mast (where I expect it won't last long).

Then there's also the power requirements, which I haven't seen yet, but they'll probably be exceedingly difficult to meet for your average sailboat.

I've been using this ever since Google Reader went to the cemetery.

Thinking about it now, I think it's absolute best feature is that it is stable. There's not this constant flow of bullshit "new feature! redesign! experience the new and enhanced look and totally fucked up interface of our new version!" that you get from most other bullshit companies. I love that. It's a great tool, because it's reliable.

Only enhancement I can think of would be some ad-filtering, as a few of my feeds have metastasized "Sponsored" content that must be filtered out before polluting my brain.

The most famous fan car was the Brabham BT46, which used a skirt and fans to suck itself to the ground, leading to a ban of fan cars in F1.

"when the drivers blipped the throttle, the car could be seen to squat down on its suspension as the downforce increased"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brabham_BT46

I think so. But we mostly cook, so ingredient availability/price is more important than restaurants, which however I also found much better in France. Of course it probably depends on the areas you visit and how you select restaurants. Paris is full of tourist traps. In the US regional differences were enourmous.

That'd be France you're describing. Plus, the food is better there :)

I hope the Fediverse can handle the onslaught of two consecutive marketing campaigns.

> given over to Apple the guarantee that Apple-provided MacOS software is not doing anything nefarious

That depends on your definition of nefarious.

Open source is where you don't have to apply guesswork to find out what a suspicious looking piece of software is doing on your computer.

It also had a ball that you had to remove every third day or so and then clean the friction rollers inside the mouse which the ball was turning. All the dust the ball picked up transferred onto those rollers and coagulated into dense felt around them until they stopped turning.

Mine had three buttons though!

Turbo Vision is odd. It's a backport of a graphical UI (Windows 3.0) to text mode. It was exceptionally well done in both end user and developer ease of use and caught on.

But I doubt it's the optimum for a text based UI, at least for most applications. Keep evolving!

Learn a useful skill. Fixing mechanical equipment, farming, building bunkers, preserving food without refrigeration. Teach your kids those things, and how to hide in the forest.

Engineers? Some, certainly. Managers? Maybe. Probably not. But politicians? Hardly.

They drilled too deep and too greedily.

The mods I would recommend:

Gameplay: Full gameplay rebalance (the most important one) https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/3010 , Reduce fall damage, Stop false attacks, Disable reveal position hack (NPCs don't automatically know where you are at all times), NeureSpec, Smarter Scrapper

Visual: Alternate character creation lighting (removes green tint), Crouch vignette effect remover

UI: Purify UI (clear up UI shaders), flib's UI improvements, Hide read shards, Highlight known specs, Muted Markers Cosmetic: Hide headgear

Vehicle: No Camera Autocentering TPP, realisticdrivinexperience

Other: No Intro Videos, Cyber engine tweaks (stability), redscript, RED4ext (CET compatible), Speed up time acceleration (skip unskippable cutscenes you've already seen), TweakDBext

Will NPCs finally resist when you rip open their car door, pull them out and drive away in their vehicle? That always bothered me the most of all - in a town with violence at every corner, people leave their car doors unsecured and when someone attempts to hijack them, every single one goes "oh noes please" instead of shoving a weapon in your face.

I did play through this recently, heavily modded with amazing community mods that completely rebalanced the rubbish combat and economy and fixed numerous bugs. I did enjoy it a lot (the world building is amazing and the story well written), but wouldn't have unmodded. One reason I'd never bother with consoles where modding isn't available.

So now Adblockers need to become like anti-virus software, heuristically determining a piece of Javascript as undesirable. The arms race will continue.

Too much caffeine (5+ cups a day): Bad sleep, wake in the middle of night with pounding heart Zero caffeine (for two years): Okay, everything is fine, but sometimes miss coffee boost and taste. Two cups a day: Everything is fine and I get to enjoy coffee. Never in the evening though.

Moderation! Same with everything.

Wife just sits opposite me and waves her arm.

It doesn't work at all. Even in marinas (stationary) it has issues - out at sea or even at anchor you can forget about it. There are also problems with them not liking you moving around. Related article: https://seabits.com/using-starlink-aboard-and-in-a-marina/

There may be a mobile base unit at some point in the future, but it will be comparable to the current Fleetbroadband units and therefore too power hungry and too big for your average cruising sailboat. Essentially you need a motorized dish which tracks and counteracts boat movements the entire time it's active. That's what is inside those Inmarsat domes you can sometimes see on big racing boats with satellite uplinks like the Volvo Ocean Race.

Was 39 or so when I left. I still did remote consulting work from the boat the first year while doing the refit, but it meant the refit was going too slow :) No job since, see other comment about money.

Bought boat in UK, sailed across the English channel a few times and then down Biscay, Galicia & the Rias, Portugal, up the Rio Guadiana (amazing), through Gibraltar, Costa del Sol (yuck), Baleares, Sardinia, Sicily, Greece, then Sicily and Greece again (because Greece is great and also because Covid). Couple other trips on friendboats.

Atlantic crossing E-W with the trades is no big deal, but going the other way (Americas to Europe) can be scary and is not for inexperienced sailors.

If the Med is your dream, might be best to buy a boat here instead. Boats that are great at ocean crossings aren't best at Med sailing and vice versa.

They're great, but you'll end up looking at them once a year when you do your passage planning for the next season. Excellent resource, but a bit pricey and heavy to sail around with.

MailASail itself is interesting too. They provide stripped down email hosting for cruisers on low-bandwidth connections (satellite internet, SSB* with pactor modems). HTML, attachments, signatures are stripped away.

The blog hosting is designed for submitting short text updates by (satellite) email, optionally with low-resolution photos, which are converted into blog posts.

* Seems the SSB service is no longer there, or maybe I'm confusing it with sailmail.com

Mostly savings, small rental income to supplement, some stock trading. The trick is to reduce spending, mostly by not buying too big a boat.

People have ideas about remote work on board, but for various reasons this rarely works out in practice. Internet connectivity is poor and intermittent, your schedule is ruled by the weather and having to work seriously distracts from the fulltime job that cruising is by itself.

By getting a boat. Getting on someone else's boat is good too, as you can get experience and learn from them. Sailing is easy - you don't need to win races when cruising around the world, so the finer details of trimming will be wasted on cruisers (you can always pick them up on the way). Navigation and traffic rules shouldn't be hard to pick up for the average HN crowd, although yachties like to make a fuss about it.

I did a few RYA training things that cost a lot of money and got me some papers that nobody ever wanted to see (they're important if you want to charter a boat though). You can just buy the syllabus and gain the knowledge by online learning or video courses instead. I recommend going that route - the knowledge in the syllabus is important and very useful. The formal course in a classroom and the certificate are not. Practical knowledge is gained only by going sailing, making mistakes and learning from them, but it helps if you know the knots and the parts of the rigging beforehand.

But the real learning only begins when you get your own boat and have to fit it out and keep it going. Boat maintenance is hard and there's a lot to learn. You can initially substitute money, but that stops working once you get to remote areas where there is simply nobody else to pay to fix your boat and you will have to do it yourself or give up. Many decrepit boats in remote locations are on the market very cheaply for exactly that reason.

Been doing this since 2015 now on a 40ft mono(hull). Currently wintering in Sicily. Picked up a wife along the way.

If you aim to do this on a budget like us, you best be good at fixing things. Plumbing, rigging, engines, fibreglass repairs, more plumbing, sewing, electrical and electronics problems, etc.

The reward is remote anchorages where you're away from everyone else and getting absolutely unenthusiastic about yet another spectacular sunset.

Also dramatic moments in storms, dragging anchors, other boaters being incompetent and inconsiderate, many great friendships and a spirit of community amongst other liveaboards like none other.

Seems to be doing the moves server-side, even on solo mode, so with my high latency, high jitter connection it's unplayable.

Why Trisquel?

> entirely free software

> teach users to value and protect their freedom

> no binary-only firmware for wireless cards or proprietary drivers for AMD/ATI and NVIDIA graphics cards are included

Advertising shits in your head.

Perhaps vote on results like on Reddit posts? Gets the junk sites down (and out of the index eventually).