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Less than an hour away from Marlow, NH, original home of PC Connection. Must be something in the water.

Changes that some applications made for Wayland definitely broke pasting for me. It seems Wayland added a separate clipboard so going between apps was a crapshoot if pasting would …

Was there a fourth wife, or was she the Last?

>a simple and consistent experience Has that not been Apple's entire marketing thrust since 1984?

For people who like LW for more than just nostalgia, Joe Dever's son is republishing all the LW books in a unified format, including a greatly expanded edition of Flight From the D…

>with isometric 2D graphics I got excited because I thought I had missed something, but these are the same apps I've had for years. They're not isometric games, though some of the …

The video for MC Frontalot's "It is Pitch Dark" has a cameo by Meretzky. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nigRT2KmCE

The Internet Archive is your first port of call. For some reason I can't get any of them to load in the browser, but all of the systems are emulatable locally. https://archive.org/…

Probably because JavaScript has been part of pdfs since Acrobat 4, way back in the last millennium.

Ads. Tracking scripts. Interface hijacks. Dynamics that change the page as I read it. A myriad of other poorly executed ideas that someone who considers themselves "very clever" th…

Lucas was friendly towards fan works, so Disney kind of got that situation handed to them and were smart enough not to go against it. When nerds are your core audience, you have to…

vcs is a 5000-line bash script wrapper around ImageMagick and FFmpeg, any features you want can be extracted to your own scripting.

I've used vcs[0] to make contact sheets from videos. It has a nice feature that if it detects the frame is blacked out, it will shift the capture time so every frame on the sheet h…

I had hoped from the headline that it would shed some light on the Oakville blobs[0], but no such luck. The images don't look remotely the same material. [0] https://en.wikipedia.o…

>What is it that you have to hide? An argument so cliche, it has its own Wikipedia page[1]. In the US, we currently have a presidential candidate from a major party threatening har…

>For example, people spent hours exploring wikipedia, this could never be done with physical paper. I must not understand what you're saying here. I'm envisioning someone reading a…

In study sessions in school I would sometimes look things up by thinking "it was on the lower left about this far into the book." I remember studies done years ago that showed read…

I think anyone making that claim is going to have to define human nature in a way that has eluded several fields of study for generations.

Please tell me what guarantee you would accept from any company that they won't eventually sell off a line of business or otherwise be acquired.

Incredible! Songs in the Key of X was the only album I ever knew to do this, and it wasn't even the first. I had no idea so many others did the same thing. Edit: Son of a *, I've h…

Warning for Linux users, it's only available packaged as a flatpak. Otherwise it requires Meson to build.

Seconding System76. I bought one for my wife after HP and Dell refurbs failed to be stable for her, so instead of trying to find a reasonably priced ( My daily driver is a desktop …