Sorry, I might have misremembered the exact process (this was probably three or four years ago), though no need for the nasty aggressive attitude (though my apologies if I offended you somehow).

Maybe it was version upgrades (e.g 18.04 to 20.04) instead of updates, or clean installs/new installs/reinstalls? I expect it was some of one and some of another.

At the time I used to (casually) maintain a bunch of Ubuntu computers for a few community projects, small organisations and older people who live nearby. I don’t remember the specifics, I just remember the phone calls of “the printer isn’t working” “Linux has broken my USB pen” etc, and the fix being “remove the snap version and install the deb version”. It caused a lot of problems.

If you were running a previous version of Ubuntu, where you had deb packages which worked, over the course of a few updates, they replaced half of your programs with snaps (without telling you), which were unable to see additional hard drives, USB pens, printers, scanners or cameras, couldn’t use plug-ins, couldn’t use 3rd party templates or presets, and didn’t respect any system settings for fonts/text size, icon placement and so on.

Snaps were fine for “aisleriot solitaire” or “calculator” (assuming you didn’t mind a 5 minute loading time) or other things which didn’t need to interact with any file or system or device, but for actual programs for people trying to do work? Bag of shite.

Now, I imagine some years later they must have fixed some of this rubbish, and I read recently they might have finally done something about permissions, but no, they didn’t ask anyone before they swapped working programs for completely broken snaps. They forced it on their existing users, and some of us bear grudges.

Hahaha, Five points! I’ve hardly ever got five points on an Only Connect. Bit of a cheeky guess though :) I love these, please do more :)

[Edit] couldn’t make spoiler work. Anyway, I didn’t specify the timeline bit, but you said that was fine in a different response

It’s a bit weird, isn’t it?

Technically, the navigational tool is “a compass” and the geometric draw-a-circle tool is “a pair of compasses” (I don’t know why) - but in general use, people just call both of them “a compass”.

We’ve had hundreds of years to rename one of them, but for some reason haven’t bothered.

You might be right, actually. There’s only one way to find out: re-watch it all again :)

Only in Rimmer’s logic :)

I think it was something like “If Lister hadn’t been imprisoned in stasis for smuggling a cat on board, he would have been there to help me mend the drive plate, so I wouldn’t have made the mistake which caused the failure, which killed all the crew”.

“YOU. THE ONE WHO IS MOVING NOW.”

Are you The Gatekeeper from the tv/boardgame Atmosfear?

Is it a weird guilt thing?

I hated that song when the programme was new, but now I feel guilty about it, because someone was trying their best, and they wrote, re-wrote, edited and worked on that song and for every instrument and vocal, someone practised and practised and performed, and even if it wasn’t quite to my taste, it doesn’t mean it was bad, and I picture them still crying themselves to sleep at night, twenty years later, going “everyone hates the song I did for Star Trek Enterprise and now I hate myself”, so I make sure to watch the full intro so I don’t hurt their feelings.

That’s what everyone else does too, right?

I was under the impression it was partially due to him feeling the ‘U’ made the words feel “too French”, and he supposedly really hated the French (apparently he was a bit of a fan of the ol’ racism), but mainly he wanted something new and uniquely American - and English spelling was even more regional, wild and inconsistent back then, so he hoped to simplify it, bring it some consistency, ideally whilst also telling the French to piss off.

Walwe

From Android Jerboa, it all works as you’d hope.

Static image on main view or individual post, plays instantly if you click on it :)

Sorry, I thought you actually hadn’t heard of Rockrolling, so the explanation attempt was genuine. It wasn’t intended to be patronising. My apologies.

If you look on the wiki page, the “roll” bit is actually from “egg roll”, as odd as that sounds. Other variations tend to have taken the “something-rolled” format, so I was just going with that.

Anyway, call it what you like, the important thing is that you try it :)

Rickrolling (wikipaedia link) is where you post a link, pretending it’s something relevant, but it’s actually a link to Rick Astley’s song “Never Gonna Give You Up”. My suggestion was that Star Trek fans, if playing the same trick, should instead post Leonard Nimoy’s Bilbo Baggins Song.

[Edit] And without “Rick” it’s not Rickrolling - and with Spock/Nimoy, I was suggesting “Spockrolling” or “Nimrolling” as possible alternatives that would work in the same way.

Now you’ve seen it, it’s your duty to use this in place of “Never going to give you up” by Rick Astley.

No more “rickrolling”, it’s “spockrolling” (or “nimrolling”?) from now on.

That’s okay, you can still install Linux on Apple computers 👍

Your can conjure them up quite easily.

1. Go to Steam Forums for a game that doesn’t support Linux
2. Post a new thread, politely asking about the possibility of native Linux support
3. A Windows fanboy appears to tell you that you are wrong
4. Warning: Since the introduction of the Steam Deck, it’s a bit harder to conjure up a Windows fanboy on the Steam forums, so you might have to try on a couple of game forums to conjure up your Windows fanboy.

I had a quick play of this - I lost after about 25 minutes - my fortress was overrun by Serpentmen. Anyway, just wanted to say it’s really well written and nicely illustrated, and I enjoyed the gameplay loop. It’s a really interesting game. I’m not sure on my free time/availability for testing, but if it is literally “do a playthrough and let me know if anything was broken”, I could fit that in somewhere :)

• It’s made a different group of people smile, and amongst them is widely regarded as a good move.

Maybe “Smart people use garbage”?

That’s brilliant. Apparently he used to be a giant shopping mall in Ohio as well.