As “three dead trolls in a baggie” famously sung… “Every OS Sucks”.

As true today as when it was first penned.

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And… Wine stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator, too.

Yeah, exactly. If I had funds, I’d be switching to a heat pump.

How about saying that a normal air con unit, with a few extra valves, can heat as well as cool - in other words, if you’ve got Aircon, you’ve got a full heat pump, just without a pipe to do the heating bit. The energy you’re spending cooling your house could also be heating your water… For free.

In addition to Turing Complete, which is really good, Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software is a fantastic book that literally goes from two kids trying to talk to each other at night with flashlights, to a fully working Z80 clone, while not being hard to understand and using a really good conversational teaching method. It’s how I figured out a lot about CPU design, microarchitectures, assembly and machine langauge and a lot of other things.

That’s a bit of a deal breaker for me; I’m constantly swapping tabs from mobile to desktop… Oh well, I’ll stick with Edge for now. Might do some more research myself anyway

I might have to give it a try. How is cross device sync and android support? I’ll often send a group to the mobile…

And that’s how you use things, which is fair enough. I prefer to have an organised, ready-to-go access to commonly required resources that I can view at a glance. I have things like e-mail, calendar, various (multiple) messaging and social media resources open at all times. I also have documents and reference materials that are regularly accessed open. Books and long-form reading materials stay open at the position I’m at. Further to that, if I’m researching something it may take time for my thoughts and desires to coalesce; during that time, the primary research tabs stay open in their own group. I may have somewhere between 3 - 6 things I’m researching at a time, with varying numbers of tabs. Then there’s note-taking, coding, gaming and rewards sites. Sure, some I use as ‘bookmarks’, but not that many - most are things that are in long-term progress and use.

10? Try (currently) 98 across 9 windows, 2 desktops. Firefox just dies. Chrome works, but Edge (thanks to its more agressive backgrounder) handles it fine. Reopens windows after reboot/shutdown better too. And that number goes up if I’m researching something - I’ve been upwards of 200 across 3 or 4 desktops in the past, easily.

Max and cheese has two ingredients. Good, quality cheese melted into fresh macaroni.

I challenge anyone to dislike that, with a good fresh salad (I like a chopped salad with a drizzle of oil and balsamic with a sprinkle of salt). The great thing is - there’s a cheese for everyone (except lactose intolerant, and what a shame for them) so this works on so many levels.

That’s… Tim Dodd, who is the Everyday Astronaut on YouTube, quite a well respected rocket follower and commentator.

Mathacre was right there… right there. Ah well.

I’ve got Braid. Played it, enjoyed it, moved on. Why would I buy it again to listen to someone rambling over it? Some AI upscaled graphics? What’s the point?

Bloody hell. Trim yer pubes.

Those wrinkled stockings!

When she passed, the heart and soul that was shown as all the characters gave her a send off - no need for acting that episode.

One of the biggest sells for gamepass and cloud gaming (assuming you’ve got a wired network). Shaving ~250GB+ (Given the cache and update downloads) is a hard sell, and I’ve got 6TB of NVME installed.

Heh… I started building in the late-90’s with a custom 486-sx. Went from that to a Pentium 100, then to an AMD-K6-II at 233, then to another AMD I forget… then to an i5-2500K in 2011. That build hit the sweet spot, and with just graphics card, memory and drive upgrades stayed roughly the same until I bought this -7-10700K last year… that’s now got 4Tb of nVME and 8tb of SSD, no spinning rust, and a 3070. I would like to upgrade the graphics card as I’ve got 2x 4K monitors and gaming is a bit sluggish at times on 4K, but… I just can’t justify the upgrade price to a graphics card that could improve. So, I’ll wait another gen, and probably get either a 4080 when the 5x series is out, or wait until the 5x series 5070-eqivalent is at a reasonable price. Other than increasing storage, I don’t see any other demands for CPU or GPU coming this console generation…