@brianstorms Shh! Keep this private between just the two of us, but I actually have and use an ad-blocker. But I see those ads on my tablet, and I find them unreasonably annoying.

Don’t charge me, and then also show page-wide stupid and annoying ads. The news I can get elsewhere with less annoyance, and I’ll probably miss wordle and the new math game in beta the most.

Bye bye, nytimes.

When the only thing that continues to work on you ad-filled web site is the captcha, I’m not interested in supporting your journalism any more.

Ironically, another pet peeve of mine was the “you can sign up online, but you have to call and talk to a human to cancel”.

But with apparently nothing but your main page (and your ads - surprise surprise) working, that was actually good for once.

@kainoa real

@w I’d pwn u in Pokemon GO while I go walking most days (now that it’s not raining any more in Portland).

Yeah, that’s the kind of high-adrenaline gaming dude I am.

Sorry to disappoint.

@monsieuricon Damn. Who will take care of the kernel.org infrastructure now?

God really didn’t think that one through.

@Sebastian@xn–trt-tna.sebtobie.de or rather, the Berlin airport debacle?

To be fair, I think most (all?) Bosch models that are sold in the US are actually manufactured here too. Maybe the ones actually manufactured in Germany fare better.

@kop316 no, the broken one was a Bosch one. Fairly high-end too, because I want my dishwasher quiet (and that’s what you usually pay extra for).

That was, I think, the third Bosch that we’ve had in 15 years. Either we’re hard on dishwashers, or their reputation for being reliable is overblown. Miele is supposedly better, but hard to find.

So we’re trying Samsung now. I have at least temporarily decided that the whole “German Engineering” thing may be a thing of the past. Let’s see how that works out.

@rimugu I have solved the problem of ironing simply by not wearing suits. Win-win.

But not washing dishes isn’t really an option.

Dishwashers (and washing machines) are just not optional. I’m not some kind of animal living in a cave any more.

@gmate8 there’s no pride in doing things that machines can do better.

You say “convenience”, I say “I have better things to do in my life”

Last time it broke was last year when lead times for replacements were in the months due to supply chain issues. So I went through the whole “google it and figure out it’s the water inlet valve that needs replacing”.

There’s certainly a satisfaction in fixing things (“look, I can do hardware too”), but when the circulation pump starts throwing errors, I’d rather just not have to deal with it again. Once is enough.

Life is good. We have a dishwasher again.

Our old one broke (again!) and while I fixed it myself last time, I wasn’t willing to deal with a dishwasher that keeps breaking.

I grew up washing dishes by hand, and I’d largely forgotten how much I hated it. Ten days without a working dishwasher is ten days too many.

@Reiddragon @imikotoba honestly, I was hoping for something nice and clean, not some eldritch horror from the last century that has just seen more maintenance than uemacs.

Less LISP and “GUI wrapper to make it look modern”, and more “actually configurable natively GUI editor”.

Dear lazy-web - question time.

I’ve maintained a branch of the old micro-emacs (not GNU emacs) for decades. And by “maintained” I really mean “mostly kept working”. It’s a scrappy little editor from the eighties(!) and the “s” in scrappy is silent.

The version I have grown accustomed to isn’t even the most recent version of microemacs, it’s a offshoot from uemacs 3.9 that was maintained by Petri Kutvonen at Helsinki University because it was portable and supported DOS, VAX/VMS and Unix.

Over the decades, I’ve “enhached” that thing to actually mostly understand UTF-8, and increased some internal limits, but it’s mostly the same thing that I used in the early nineties.

Anyway.

I don’t love the fact that it’s a very limited text editor. I’d like syntax highlighting etc. But my fingers are absolutely hardcoded to it, and I am not in the least interested in something that makes me switch away from those (much less start using a mouse to move around etc).

Which is just a very long way to say: “Does anybody know of some slightly more modern GUI editor that actually has good support for really changing keybindings”.

And I mean really configurable. As in “I can make ESC-J auto-justify text, and ESC-Z be ‘exit-and-save, and ^X^C will exit without saving”. Not some half-way state where “sure, you can make ^X exit, but no, you can’t make ^X or ESC act as Alt / Meta keys for other keys?

And yes, I know one answer is “teach your fingers new ways”. But my micro-emacs works just fine, and so it really isn’t worth it to me.

And please - don’t even bother replying with “Xyz is a great editor” unless you know and can show exactly how to rebind a key sequence like that ^X^C. I don’t use nearly all the uemacs keybindings, but I use an odd set of them.

I’d rather maintain just a keybinding file than a whole scrappy editor.

Edit: clearly I should have specified that I’m not interested in yet another “runs in a terminal” editor, or some even older editor (ie “real” emacs, or vim) that just has had more lipstick applied over the years.

@kernellogger side note: one of my old rants against case-insensitivity was on good old Google+. Now you can’t see it any more, because G+ went away.

But the gist of it then was (and still is) “Don’t do it. Please”.

@ariadne Volvo XC40 Recharge.

In my defense: not only is this the first car I’ve ever had with lug nut keys, it’s my first car with a frunk, and I was searching for the lug nut key in the trunk - where both the jack and the lug wrench were.

Sometimes you have one of those days that just shows how incompetent you are…

We have a brand new family car (replacing one that was twenty years old - just to clarify that this is not something very common in our family). The wife is taking it up the mountain for some late spring skiing, so even though the season is pretty much over, it wants proper traction tires.

No problem. I’ve done this before, even if it’s been a few years. Order tires from Costco (they aren’t in stock, since what idiot would install traction tires in March?), and have them install them.

They call back half an hour after I’ve dropped the car off, because the new car has locking lug nuts. I’ve never heard of such a thing, didn’t know my car had them, and have absolutely no idea what a lug nut key is, much less where it would be.

So I go back to the tire center, google what said “key” is even supposed to look like, and try to find it, eventually just give up and say “let’s reschedule”.

In their defense, the tire techs keep a straight face, and don’t laugh in my face for never even having realized that my car has such things.

As I drive away, I light goes on. I have a manual. It tells me exactly where said lug nut key is (It’s under the carpet in the frunk, in case anybody wonders).

I drive back, feeling really stupid. But at least the car is ready for skiing now.

Moral of the day: RTFM.

@larsmb I may be biased by where I am, but it does seem like the problem has never primarily been the resources or public policy or access, but individuals who “did their own research”.

I think it was harder finding ivermectin than vaccines at times.

So I’d worry more about plain old stupidity than the #WHO guidelines.

@larsmb To be fair, isn’t that the job of something like #WHO?

A health organization really shouldn’t look at an individual, but at a societal, level. You as an individual then have to make your own choices, but from a policy standpoint there has to be some kind of cost effectiveness bias and taking averages into account.

No policy can ever be perfect, and striving for perfection is pointless and actively detrimental. So you should always look for “this is the best we can reasonably do in the big picture”, and ask yourself whether that shouldn’t take cost and effort into account?

@monsieuricon I hope you quote the result.

tr -d 'A-Za-z0-9' < /usr/share/dict/words | sort | uniq -c

isn’t empty.

Also, I find one 45-character entry there, so three of them will end up with a line that is much longer than the “SHOULD not be more than 78 characters” line length.

Not that anybody should care about that crazy legacy limit, but still..