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Skill issue. Can’t click a Windows entry if you don’t have one!

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I wasn’t trying to get into the weeds about actual kernel version numbers; I was just saying they made classic Mac OS from versions 1-9 and OS X from versions 1-14, and 9 + 14 = 23.

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The OS version number is really 10.14.2.1, though.

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I stand corrected. I gotta be honest: I used to daily-drive OS X up until about a decade ago, but I haven’t paid much attention to it since then.

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It’s really too bad the original innovators got subsumed by capitalist ‘tech bros.’

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but if you don’t…

…then either you’re a farmer or the area you live was built wrong and needs to be fixed.

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What my solution? How does this get fixed for me?

It doesn’t. But that’s okay, because nobody gives a shit about special snowflakes way off the tail end of the bell curve like you – solving the problem for the 80% of everybody else, for whom reasonable solutions do apply, is plenty good enough!

Demanding that any solution be perfect enough to solve it for literally everyone including you is just bad-faith reactionary bullshit.

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Neither do today’s adults, since gifs always allowed up to 256 colors. (The “8” you’re probably thinking of was the number of bits per pixel.)

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Docx is not a proprietary format, it’s a standard

It’s a “standard” only in the sense that Microsoft took the MS Office binary file formats (which are basically just writing the internal state of Word/Powerpoint/whatever to disc), serialized it to XML, half-assed some bullshit documentation for it, and bribed the standards body to rubber-stamp it. It’s still, at it’s core, basically defined by whatever nonsense Microsoft’s implementation does.

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No, people being homeless in the first place is cringe. Quit being obtuse.

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On the bottom right of the page, next to “Share” and “Embed,” there’s a flag icon. Click it, and you can report the product. I figured “Defamatory” was a likely category…

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This is clearly a different alternate timeline than that one.

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Spez is way ahead of you on that one.

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Tell me you haven’t tried to use Linux in a decade without telling me you haven’t tried to use Linux in a decade.

The transition from the holiday season back to the normal drudgery is so depressing. Is there any way to make Jan / Feb less depressing?

like, it’s still dark at 5pm, there are barely any sports on, still bitterly cold and austere and it hurts to go outside, but you’re not even looking forward to christmas or the new year. the new year is here, and it’s largely the same as last year. except you’re getting older.

grue,

What are you talking about? Christmas isn’t even over yet; we’re currently on day 9 of 12. Keep celebrating!

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…says the guy with “Linux” in his username.

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Thinking Free Software isn’t inherently political is like getting mad at Green Day for being suddenly ‘woke,’ LOL.

grue,

Nah, you’ve got him confused with Supply-Side Jesus.

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Well, well, well, if it isn’t the consequences of his own actions (inviting corporations to exploit Free Software by trying to re-brand it).

Which of the U.S. national parks in this image do you think is the most worth visiting? There are three exceptions. (lemmy.world)

We’re talking about a vacation this summer so we can plan ahead. My mother (who will pay for it) said she’d love to go to Yellowstone, but it looks like it’s about a 24-hour drive for us. Still, I like the idea of going to a national park. We’re in Indiana, so this image shows about the limits of where we’re willing to...

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There’s stuff in Gatlinburg I know we would like to see as well. My daughter loves any aquarium anywhere and it has one

Depending on how much driving around you want to do, it might be worth heading down to the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga. (Take this route for a scenic drive including the Tail of the Dragon and the Cherohala Skyway.) You’re also kinda within striking distance of the Georgia Aquarium (the largest aquarium in the US and the 4th largest in the world), although the drive isn’t nearly as scenic.

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I have four fire extinguishers:

  • One in the kitchen
  • One in the basement
  • One in my office (where I do stuff like soldering and 3D-printing)
  • One mounted to the roll bar of my Miata (I ought to get some for my other cars, but haven’t gotten around to making mounting brackets yet)

However, I never would’ve thought to check them (or turn them upside down to “fluff” them) without this post, so thanks!

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Apparently, folks don’t realize that even The Weather Channel has already dabbled in trash reality TV.

Some famous enough to have their own Wiki pages:

Big list (pay attention to the ones marked “long form”): en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_programs_broadcast_by_…

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