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I just switched to Lawnchair thanks for the recommendation. Seems to do everything I wanted from Nova anyway.

Vagility is a great word- it has a good sound and rhythm and the added bonus of sounding like it is probably something rude. Might be limited opportunities to work it into a conver…

I think he is talking education as in school/college/university rather than learning? I too am finding AI incredibly useful for learning, I use it for high level overviews and to h…

Felt sure that this thread would reference Terry Pratchett, he was a man who understood the danger of librarians.

Further to your point the Scots and Irish aren't even Anglo-Saxon. You could make the argument for calling them Anglo-Celtic now but not so much at the time of the settlement of th…

Same in Australia. But my Dad was a Scotsman so I had it well emphasised

Also the first real programming language I learned, on an early version of DOS (3.?). I wrote a utility to encode data which was burnt to Eeproms for VHF radio's (fixed base units)…

Trees are good. Everything I have read suggests soil (hummus) is better. Requires change to farming practices though which is traditionally difficult to do and has rich lobby group…

> In the right conditions it has a half life of a few days and will be completely inert in a couple of weeks. As far as I can tell this is not accurate- glyphosate breaks down to A…

Joplin has served me well as an Evernote replacement. If by integration with the browser you mean snipping content then I think it meets your requirements.

They are on YouTube. Thoroughly recommended. Some swearing.

See my other reply re training, employers here in WA generally want a Cert III minimum. There are jobs available but the pay is pretty poor. There are plenty of industries paying b…

I did a 6 months Cert III in horticulture, a Permaculture Design Certificate and read and watched as much as I could. Every day is a school day and I am still learning. Not sure ab…

Retrained last year as a horticulturalist after 30+ years in IT and communications. I am fitter and healthier than I have been in decades. Pay rates in the industry are low but I a…

My favourite three- - Heartwood by Rowan Reid - Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer - The Call Of The Reed Warbler by Charles Massy

Former multiple cat owner here, every cat I have owned hunted successfully with multiple bells on their collars. My neighbours cat has bells and hunts in my yard. Bells don't work …

I used to make ~2x my spouse. Now she makes ~2x me (her increased a bit and by choice mine decreased a lot). We have always treated it as "our" money not mine or hers. Scott Pape i…

I understand the cost and complexity of doing so but I think that production loads should be engineered across two or more service providers. That way any incident on a given provi…

I went from delicious to Evernote for the same benefits. Now on Joplin.

Teaming with Microbes by Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis. Since last week. Good read I recommend it even if you are not into gardening understanding life in the soi is important.

I had a HP200LX back in the day, it was a great little machine and I taught myself rudimentary C primarily on it and have often yearned for a modern replacement.

Explains why the online training course I was part way through stopped working! Amusing that the quickest diagnosis came from skimming the headlines here :)

Nah I meant opposite. Just incompetent and unaware, there should be a name for it ;-)

Doh corollary doesn't mean what I thought. I learned something thank you. I meant the opposite.