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I have found a very usable phone (for what I do, which is not much) in low cost Chinese "mini rugged phones" namely I had (until I broke the screen and battery was not in very good…

>The fact that you had to find an article from three decades ago for an instance of killing with a keyboard is telling Yeah, is telling that modern keyboards weight a lot less nowa…

D@mn, I believed you were thinking that no one (not noone) could be more pedantic than you.

Add to the list galalith: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galalith

Not that they couldn't reserve on the ads screens a narrow (let's say 100-200 pixels tall) band at the bottom of the screen to show the path with the green and red lights like the …

Europe may be too wide a categorization, I am pretty sure that different countries have different ways to deal with the matter. My (thankfully very little) experience in Italy is f…

Well, not really, the episode that article is related to came out as being a couple of homeless people walking on the railway: https://tg24.sky.it/cronaca/2024/07/20/firenze-uomo-b…

Absorption refrigerator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption_refrigerator Einstein refrigerator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_refrigerator The principle is still use…

Well, I must post this (stronger than me): https://www.marriedtothesea.com/122607/pulled-over-in-canada...

NT 4.0 was not for the masses, it was costly (the OS license) and needed higher specs than the almost contemporary Windows 95 (which was largely sold with license included with the…

Anyone remembers the character of Raymond Luxury-Yacht (pronounced "Throatwobbler Mangrove") ? https://montypython.fandom.com/wiki/Raymond_Luxury-Yacht

The best (IMHO) ode/obituary for floppy disks: A:las poor floppy, I knew you well.

Done: ""

Everyone have their own favourite, for me it is: "Well, I've got good gnus and I've got bad gnus."

I may add that there is an additional (lesser known) issue. The "typical" contract is 3 kW, due to air conditioners becoming more common, many people upgraded to 4.5 kW (it was als…

I am ?abbergasted.

Doesn't the traditional Henry Wallace Mills method work for you? https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7471/7471-h/7471-h.htm#link2...

Well, it has already been done (JFYI): https://fitzcarraldoblog.wordpress.com/2019/10/17/creating-a...

Well, in that case you are a final customer, should you put on an online service allowing customers to book and pay for dinner in many different restaurants it would be different. …

JFYI, you can call yourself lucky with engine starting, the new i20 (Hyunday, so from Corea as well) in order to start needs: 1) neutral 2) clutch depressed AND: 3) brake depressed…

That is FAQ #1 (at the bottom of the page): "You dodged the question; Was it worth it? Hell yes it was. The massive amount of nerd points alone is enough."

You mean that reducing the risk of offending - maybe - a handful of oversensitive people[1] is not a great enough end? ;) [1] none with any actual interest in ornitology, BTW.

I propose to change "yak shaving" into "birds renaming".

Seemingly clickbait/fake info. Another article says that the woman had been struck by a human driven vehicle and projected in front of the Cruise car that couldn't avoid her: https…

Maybe I am misinterpreting the point, but: >Merely having the title of a "security researcher" won't exempt you from the scrutiny of law enforcement agencies should your IP address…