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    Comment #47778600

    But you can also use MATE still to this day, or even Cinnamon.

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    Comment #47165878

    Granted, there are good podcasts, but I've switched my listening time (mostly commute for in office once a week) to audiobooks. I find books to be much more consistently high quali…

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    Comment #47165856

    I haven't used Windows in years. I remember needing to use WordPad to even open a Unix line ending file, even though it was counter-intuitive.

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    Comment #45876282

    FreeBSD 15 is planning to ship with an option in the default installer to setup a KDE Plasma desktop!

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    Comment #45827006

    Dillo works surprisingly well. I've used it on older systems running new operating systems. It does a web browser should do best: read web pages.

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    Comment #45827002

    Nope, it uses https://www.fltk.org/

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    Comment #45584394

    I'm from a blue class family in a non-affluent area and I could already read going into Kindergarten because my mom spent a lot of time reading with me before I got to school. This…

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    Comment #45553593

    What does this have to do with running FreeBSD software on Windows?

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    Comment #45279178

    Reminds me of when Cisco bought Flip Video

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    Comment #45249555

    I will admit I'm more like to use "--" and not bother converting it if not done automatically on quick forum posts. You can find examples in my post history. But I come across them…

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    Comment #45249353

    Honestly em-dashes are simpler to use than other punctuation and sometimes come in handy when it's not clear what to use.

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    Comment #45249345

    Many devices and word processors will convert "--" into an em-dash. On longer posts, I often write in a word processor and then copy-paste to a text field. On Android and iOS, you …

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    Comment #43858203

    Meanwhile Microsoft removed WordPad in the latest version of Windows 11. It was a great simple word processor and text editor. It even supported docx and odt files.

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    Comment #42726121

    I loved the N800 and was happy to see it make an appearance in that presentation. In fact I still have one in my desk drawer beside me I turn on from time-to-time. Yes it was a bit…

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    Comment #42182677

    Yeah one non-profit is a place that people physically so I imagine a lot of people look at it on their cell phone. We have over half of our visitors on mobile.

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    Comment #42175925

    I manage websites for a couple of non-profits. A very high percentage of traffic is from Safari (mostly on iOS) -- 40% on one site. Only testing in Chrome seems like a bad idea.

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    Comment #42018135

    I just use Firefox and disable Pocket, search suggestions, and everything on the new tab page and it feels fine to me.

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    Comment #41939511

    You tip at fast food restaurants?

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    Comment #41790158

    And it is not just the US. In the UK from my limited experience visiting they use a mess of different units commonly. Certainly not all in on metric.

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    Comment #41019114

    You're probably right, but it doesn't always feel that way when you have serial numbers on every piece of currency. And coins are so uselessly low value today that they're hard to …

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    Comment #40995731

    I got started with Netscape Composer around this age, as you could easily switch between the HTML view and the WYSIWYG view and see what everything does. Seamonkey is a still maint…

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    Comment #40065165

    I used to spend so much time on geek.com and I completely forgot about the website!

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    Comment #40064998

    Ctrl+A and Ctrl+E work as expected on macOS. They must be testing on that OS only.

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    Comment #39458802

    I have a theory that Firefox gets under reported in a lot of stats because its users are more likely to use Adblockers. Statcounter for example is going to be blocked by most Adblo…

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    Comment #39013373

    I am running Leap on my main laptop. I guess I need to re-evaluate as I haven't been following OpenSUSE development lately.