One thing I dislike about #Win11 is the extra step added to the start menu. First is the pinned programs and recommendations with a little "all programs" button. Click that and the regular start menu appears.
Seems bizarre that the primary UI improvement that made #Win95 such a revelation is repeatedly erased or subverted in subsequent #Microsoft operating systems. I remember #Win3.1 and MacOS having program icons and folders containg such icons scattered all over the desktop. The start menu was a huuuuge improvement.
despite your strawman about what's covered by free speech, you seem to agree that the bill is about who controls that media. we agree that china exerts that kind of control. it doesn't try to pretend to respect free speech, and it doesn't have free speech enshrined in its constitution, though. this is not about protecting people. it's about protecting the empire's propaganda machine. the one that shouldn't exist to begin with.
plenty of coups and wars have been supported with significant involvement of mass communication media. ytdl://_wIOqHSsV9c mentions some, but it's getting old, the techniques that promoted media and lawfare coups all over latin america in the last 2 decades, the arab spring, the coup in ukraine that sparked what may become WWIII, aren't covered. that propaganda can get people to care more about a russian juán guaidó than about tens of thousands of civilians, mostly children, being murdered and starved to death by zionists armed by the empire, and that julian assange remains in solitary confinement are testaments of how the violence with which narrative control is maintained, and to what ends
yeah, it does get to me that an empire that fscked with my own country and many neighboring ones a number of times in my lifetime is now using the blood and land of my grandparents as a proxy to weaken another empire. what's your excuse?
Going to visit my sister this weekend to build a PC from scratch with my 10 years old nephew, using only spare parts. Suitcase packed with all the stuff (mainboard, PSU, CPU, RAM, graphics card, termal paste, cables, screws etc. etc.) and I'm a bit anxious whether we succeed. Anyway, It'll be the first major nephew-uncle-project and I'm looking forward to the time with him.
@simsa03 Wonderful news! I am glad that you and your nephew had such a great time ... and that you were able to leave him a reminder of your time together.
I forgot to tell the parallel story with my little niece who is now 5 years old and and very much into crafting and painting. When my nephew and I had finished setting up his new machine, the girl came to me to have her share of time with the uncle (how considerate she'd been to allow her brother to preoccupy their uncle for such a long time). She wanted to craft something and we went through the waste paper the family collects for recycling. We found a few boxes and cardboards and things pretty quickly turned into building and decorating a carton car. We took thin wooden skewers for wheel axles, cut carton for the four wheels, and decorated the carton box with coloured pieces of felt she found in the cupboard. She put a driver's cabin on top (for the queen and the king) and didn't forget to put a tiny doormat in front of it for all to wipe their shoes before they enter the cabin. Then we did a lot of colour decorations, direction indicators, headlights, and other elaborate structures we couldn't make real sense of. After that I pierced the carton box with the skewers for the two wheel axles and put a wheel on each side while not forgetting to fixate them with little pieces of felt left and right of them (so that they cannot fall off). My niece was very satisfied with the work and without much commentary she took the cardbox car in her hands and vanished from the room. I suspect she carried it into her children's room. I don't know if she already showed the car to mom and dad and her brother, she may or may not, depending on her mood. But at least she got something for herself – like her brother did. What a joy these kids are.
Nephew told me via phone that even his attempts to install packages for a Wifi dongle on Linux Mint have worked. He has access to the internet now and seems pretty happy with the machine.
Got an emergency alert about a radar indicated #tornado ... the storm cell appears to have past the Springfield #MO area. St Louis area also warned.
No known damage in this area.
There was some significant wind and rain for a few minutes. No hail observed. #GS3 was aware enough to be concerned about a tornado, but as far as I know, no twister touched the ground.
He talked about the group that he hired on with, and how half of them left and are now trying to return because they had nothing to keep them active. But I have no illusions about enjoying sitting in a rocking chair or going fishing every day. I already know that even if my financial needs were taken care of, I would still need to be productive.
My grandson (2, but will be 3 soon) had a meltdown because "it can't be bedtime, it is still daylight". He's not wrong. Just a couple of nights ago, bedtime was after sunset.
PizzaMan, being the youngest male, was always the last to get anything. Even his younger sister got things before he did. So I sent his tablet first, a week or more before the next sibling's shipment.
Neither the nephew formerly known as #lazyNephew nor his younger brother #Papaya were present for that discussion, but they did get tablet computers in the mail that Summer. My recollection is that Papaya was staying with my mom for some sort of youth empowerment training, so I shipped his tablet to the house ... and despite "signature required", the UPS driver left it in the driveway.
When he returned home, his brother suddenly contacted me to ask whether he was getting one. I had already planned on visiting Jeremiah (employee at the Best Buy store ... I made sure that every sale went through him ... they weren't on commission, but that doesn't mean they don't keep track of how productive an employee is) after work the next day.
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>This week 2.16.2 has been released. It contains some small fixes and features that have accumulated over the past two years since the last release.
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>This will be the last release I make of HexChat. The project has largely been unmaintained for years now and nobody else stepped up to do that work.
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>I want to say thank you to all of the contributors, users, and chatters I’ve interacted with over the years. HexChat was a very important and formative project for me; I started contributing to it as a teenager, learned so much, met many great people, and it led to greater things in my life. It is hard to let go but the time has come for me to move on.
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>I am going to move all data that I can to be hosted on Github, so all documentation, installers, and dependencies will be there until the end of Microsoft.
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>Forks of the project are welcomed. Nobody can stop the code from living on.
Kudos to KY3's weatherman, who gave #GS3 and #GS4 his full attention and talked with them like they mattered. I am new in the Springfield area, but it is really cool to see.