I’m in the UK and only once have I been in a cinema where people were shouting the things. It was some pretty mediocre horror thing and there were some teenagers shouting jokes but it was only like two times. The cinema was pretty much empty and it was just us and them; I think they just found the film a bit boring (we certainly did).

I always thought those concierges in fancy hotels act a bit like that. I’ve heard that guests can show up with weird rich person problems and be like “I need three gold Ferraris by 9pm” and the concierges will have to make it happen.

I use Linux (though dual boot Windows for Fusion 360 and a lot of Windows at work), but if someone asks me about switching to Linux I don’t ram it down their throat. It’s good and all but it’s really not for everyone, and despite what people on here would have you think it’s certainly not as easy to use as Windows. You’re much more likely to run into a difficult problem and not know how to fix it though it’s changed a bit since you can just get Claude to take a look at things now. Windows can have annoyances but generally you can live with them.

Linux, I think, is for people who are quite technical and people who aren’t technical at all (and just need a web browser). For the people inbetween Linux can be a struggle. It’s improving incredibly quickly but the out-of-the-box experience is still pretty terrible (looking especially at KDE here).

When I was looking for a job an awful long time ago I was sending 8 a day and that seems small time compared to what you’d need to do now. Most of these places will have AI doing first soft on the applications anyway so don’t feel like you’ll be annoying anyone.

At the bottom of the article it cites that they have the right to refund if they can’t repair or replace, but since they’ve shown plenty of stock in their own store they can replace. He also cites their own policy which reads “refund the then current market value of the Product”.

Even if any of these ships get built then the Democrats will inevitably win the next election and they’ll be renamed after a more universally admirable President and the Republicans won’t bother changing them back next time they win. Trump can’t love too much longer given his age and the MAGA movement will die with him since nobody else has been able to attract the same kind of attention.

I don’t know what I have to do to get a game listed on GOG though. I don’t buy a lot of games but I think the last three I tried to buy were all unavailable on GOG. There’s that page where you can wish for a game on GOG but I’ve no idea how effective that is.

Songs that will always be good are like:

Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield

Just a Day - Feeder

Or do you mean songs that will always sound new? That’s a harder one.

I’m into home distilling and there’s some guy called Alex who posted under Bokakob and designed a still back in 2001 and posted it on homedistiller.org. That design is still in use today and nobody really knows much about that guy or heard from him much since.

On when I need it. Otherwise I’m clicking captchas all day.

That’s mental. It’d be illegal in many countries. In the UK any place that sells alcohol has to give free water.

The idea of not securing your car in some way seems absolutely mental. This was the fault of the parents.

They said details will be released once it’s been patched. If somebody has an Apple priv sec they’re not going to giving it away for free.

No Mans Sky is my chill game.

If there’s this baked in idea that when they make an online only game it’s eventually going to have to have server software open sourced or disable online checks, they’ll soon adapt.

The guy who created Father Ted is a massive right winger and probably supports Israel so not a perfect move.

Actually, after writing that I checked and he’s really annoyed by this, so maybe it’s a double win.

Why is it always Twilight Princess that gets this treatment?

I remember when everybody was using Ask. That was a long, long time ago.

I’m not quite sure how people use Debian on a desktop machine. Do you not fall asleep while you’re using it?

That didn’t take long.