Came here to say something like this, except I learned it from the (rather dark) joke “The neutron bomb was invented by an architect with no friends.”

Quick test: Say something unkind about Kim Jong Un.

I’m English. Our king has fat sausage fingers. Your turn.

At an IT-related business, I had a colleague reformat and install Ubuntu after he foolishly clicked on something he shouldn’t and compromised Windows on his machine. The rest of us weren’t affected and stayed on Windows, but I did feel a twinge of guilt that maybe I ought to have done the same (Installed Linux, that is, not clicked on malware).

For the work we were doing there was almost nothing that didn’t have a Linux equivalent, so it didn’t affect him much if at all.

For the rare exceptions, we had a virtual desktop server, which had existed prior to any of that, because we occasionally needed very old versions of software that would conflict with the modern versions on people’s PCs.

This was all over a decade ago though, so it’s hard to determine whether the same circumstances would have the same result.

There’s a saying about Yorkshire folk, probably invented by rival Northerners, but could just as easily have been a self-deprecation:

“Yorkshire born and Yorkshire bred; Strong in t’ arm and weak in t’ 'ead.”

I think we’ve found the Yorkshireman the saying was about.

Source: Am Yorkshireman.

Condolences to his family. Double if they’re as daft as he was.

Somewhere, sad Cinnamon noises.

US to Canada: Bend over.

Canada: No.

US: You’ll enjoy it.

Canada: Are you serious?

US: You’re unreasonable.

Canada: You’re creepy and weird.

US: Well then I’ll rob my family under the guise of robbing you and you’ll have to watch them cry. What do you think about that?!

Canada: … ~leaves the room~

US, to family: This is all Canada’s fault. Bend over.

Tangential reply: The manner in which your 1TB drive “took a crap” might be cause for concern depending on the precise nature of the failure.

If the hardware is fine, you might be able to recover files on it. This possibility is diminished if you’ve reformatted and put new files onto it, and practically nil if you did a full drive wipe beforehand (or the failure, whatever that was, did something similar.), but the possibility might have been there and may still be there.

If the hardware is not fine, you probably shouldn’t use it for anything important, if at all.

Curious. I must be a filthy casual with the one desktop PC. There is at least one other PC here, but it’s out of action.

It could do with plugging in at some point to see if it still works, but I see no benefit in making that permanent.

This is all clearly Ukraine’s fault. If they’d simply capitulated right back at the start of the special military exercise, honest, hard-working Russians wouldn’t have these fuel problems.

(I shouldn’t need a /s, but it’s here anyway.)

For the sake of ethnic origin, white South Africans are European, but I grant you that things are getting to the point of being somewhat complicated there too.

Black for Sub-Saharan African descent, sure. Things get a bit more difficult if you want to talk about north Africans.

Lobbying is and always has been legalised bribery. That they’re extending it to parties that aren’t political (at least, not officially), is not a surprise.

That the law allows this scope creep ought to be a surprise, but alas…

To hazard a guess (don’t know for sure, not even for my own country), it’s for future historians to be able to build up a picture of who was where and when.

What might seem obvious and common knowledge now might not be in 100 years.

Once I read the article it became abundantly clear, yes, but my attempt to imply that my initial impressions were from the headline alone wasn’t a good one.

It’s an indictment of our society that I wasn’t completely sure if this was going to be about ethnic Chinese targeting their own, or ethnic British taking advantage of foreign students.

The fact the headline mentions Chinese specifically had me leaning towards the former, but there was still an element of doubt in my mind.

And I’d still not be surprised to learn that the latter also happens.

You must be on an old or LTS Debian. The -/ flag was added in the 8.0 release of nano in mid-2024. https://packages.debian.org/stable/editors/ lists 8.4 as the current version for Debian 13 / trixie.

Asking nano to use the modern keybinds by default is akin to insisting that Emacs run in evil mode by default. If you really must have it do that, set up a shell alias or put something in your .nanorc.

Also, nano has syntax highlighting. No LSP though. It’s an editor, not an IDE.

Maybe that explains the size difference I was talking about elsewhere.

“Your plan was not ‘Rid the land of all the troublesome brown people’ and so we must reject it. Feel free to try again.”

It’s not clear whether you’re replacing some or all of the sugar with an artificial sweetener or not. Some don’t work for some people and some may be unsuitable for medical reasons, but there might be one or two that work.

FWIW, I’ve been putting saccharin in my tea for years now. Not dead yet.

To flog this dead horse just a bit longer, micro is nearly seven times the size of nano, and Apple are clearly doing it wrong. Pointing an old name at a new thing is fine as long as there’s backward compatibility, but a new name at an old thing that doesn’t support the same features is a disservice to the old thing, the new thing and the user.