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Here's some from BBC ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg7ed4rp7x5o and https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp9jl8vxdy9o ) and one from Reuters ( https://www.reuters.com/world/…

https://stellafane.org/tm/index.html has good guides. There are astronomy forums such as CloudyNights with their own ATM sections. Edmind Optics has All About Telescopes by Sam Bro…

Barlow!?

One Google search away. The full movie is on Daily Motion.

And sometimes that's enough for a good and fulfilling life.

FTP?

I've been using ODF professionally and privately for years now without any issues. What's the problem your side?

One of the first things I install on any new computer is Gimp. Thank you to all involved in the Gimp project.

Looking for wireless router. Mid to high end range I guess. I like Mikrotik offerings. Anything else out there that is good? Some good open source combination?

Linux & LibreOffice. At the end of the day I'm grateful to all people who work on open source and free software.

People mix common cold with flu all the time. If you have the flu you usually can't even go out of bed, even with medication.

I already made that choice. Have had 3-day weekends for more than 4 years now.

Sorry, but I find that hard to believe. Part certainly wasn't very basic.

A lot of hate and bashing of Firefox here. On my Linux machine (relatively modern desktop) there's no difference in speed between Chrome(Chromium) and Firefox. A lot of people talk…

In two decades of using it (yep) I never had an issue. I used it on Linux, MacOS and Windows and I don't remember any issues whatsoever.

Switch 2 is amazing.

This is simply not true. Did you walk any US, UK and other first-world countries factories? A lot of them have separate machinist shops with tens or hundreds of machinists who can …

It's perfectly fine to ignore 99.999% of those. Whip out a script or an app that does exactly what you need without the bloat if viable. I subscribe to many newsletters and get loa…

I miss the era of "startx"!

I never understood and would like to know more on why people from London or other areas that are not Liverpool and have no connections to Liverpool whatsoever cheer for Liverpool t…

New and a little older, maybe up to 5 years old Hondas are like that.

Same as you I'm in defense mode. I exited the market in early February since something was not right. All I have (not much) sits in money market fund now at 5%.

Thanks all for suggestions!

Which pen do you find really smooth for writing notes. I remember a few years ago I had a pen that was really smooth and also made my writing semi-decent. Whatever I try these days…

And another one here!