My bad. Sorry.

3rd party modifications to windows iso that basically amounts to trusting an internet stranger.

Got in just after Dapper, those days fooling around with compiz were the best. Went distrohopping when Unity happened.

What about XFCE users?

The message speaks well of my situation, but that doesn’t mean I’ll buy a fucking Sneakers™ like a mindless consumer drone. FUCK™ YOU™ BRAND™

What if I use Debian but with backports and flatpak for apps that need fast updates?

Its very ingrained on me that a proper business should be able to spare a few on a domain for themselves, as I remember it before the dot-com bubble.

Now? Websites have been displaced by social media altogether and many small business simply prefer having an Instagram profile, for example.

Yeah, that’s what happens, something cool but that’s it. It would be nice if l could use it for something else other than a glorified online resume.

I also bought a cheap domain for experimenting around, so that’s where all my “not so professional” stuff goes.

Kojima gone, Konami bad, usual rant - I’m glad for David reprising his role once again, if anything.

That being said, Snake’s saga is long over. Shouldn’t they try testing new waters with a continuation of Metal Gear Rising as well?

If we're being really pedantic, the last part in Korean is counted with different units:

• 각 as precomposed character: 1자 (unit ja for CJK characters)
• 각 (ㄱㅏㄱ) as decomposable components: 3자모 (unit jamo for Hangul components)

So we could have separate implementations of length() where we count such cases with different criteria… But I wouldn't expect non-speakers of Korean know all of this.

Plus, what about Chinese characters? Are we supposed to count 人 as one but 仁 as one (character) or two (radicals)? It gets only more complicated.

Don’t know if they’re stupid, but probably misled and very desperate enough to bet on an invasive experimental treatment messing with your brain from ‘some guy’ with ‘good enough publicity’.

I hope they all read about Animal 15 before actually agreeing.

At this pace I predict the fabled “year of the Linux desktop” will arrive when local- processing desktops have been overrun by closed-off mobile devices and cloud services.

Not a conventional case, but I’ve seen some HKers use the word ‘colonizers’ deliberately against pro-Beijing commenters. It effectively gives the vibe of PRC being yet another colonial master, which really triggers internet fights.

It could work with fully recognized sovereign countries, but not with HK. Problem with words like patriotic or nationalist in this context is that it brings the issue of HK’s political status, especially within China.

In an ideal scenario, a Hongkonger should be able to preserve their cantonese and foster local HK culture whether accepting or not the city’s status as SAR of PRC, but that “China one big family” ship sailed a long time ago.

So we need to play with words. HK local culture preservationist? Sounds to long. Anti-assimilationist could be used but in limited context, like HK-ers protesting against a public policy favoring mandarin.

What about Yunohost? Its made for newbies getting into selfhosting and has Jitsi support.

I always wondered if "using X app instead of Google as search engine should be interpreted as sign of generalized computer illiteracy (not being able to distinguish between two different contexts/products) or a product of our own doing (convergence between desktop and mobile, interfaces harder to visually differenciate between apps and its functions).

Either way we have a long way ahead.

Let’s not romanticize the old web too much. It had its problems too:

• Half-done html pages with under_construction.gif or cliparts copypasted from Word. Some went through multiple editors like Frontpage and Dreamweaver which ended up producing spaghetti HTML.

• Autoplaying midi from songs probably from Limp Bizkit, Metallica, Blink 182, etc. Did I mention that MIDI volumes count as separate from normal ‘Media’ volumes, and were often cranked to the MAX?

• It was a time when HTML/CSS/JS would chaotically intertwine with proprietary plugins like Flash and ActiveX. “Best viewed from Internet Explorer at 800x600” was a thing. Readability? Accessibility? Forget about it.

• You paid by minute on dial-up connection until ADSL appeared. Good luck trying to download that tenchi_muyo_hentai.jpg.

Aren’t you worried about ransomwares though?

Helped my parents get treatment for $old_people_health_complications. I used my phone for contact. I had barely started using that number in particular.

Next week I received a call asking if I wanted to “reserve a place in the town cemetery in case of the unfortunate” (it wasn’t in the US, words might be different).

It wasn’t me, it was my parents, and the fuckers tried to manipulate potentially grieving people.

Not everyone plays games or has time for it.