Posts by Manolo 406 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Jan 2010
My father used to have a large CRT on his desk, which was one of the cat's favourite napping spots, with the toasty warmth of a glowing CRT gently heating the cat.
Until he replaced it with a shiny new LCD.
Cat jumps on the desk, hops on the monitor and of course immediately falls off on the other side of the now suddenly very narrow monitor.
Ah, progress. Not always a good thing when you are a cat.
Despite all the downvotes, there appears to be a grain of truth regarding Uyghurs fighting in the Levant.
According to Wikipedia:
"TIP (ETIM) sent the "Turkistan Brigade" (Arabic: كتيبة تركستاني, Katibat Turkistani) to take part in the Syrian Civil War,[29] most noticeably in the 2015 Jisr al-Shughur offensive"
TIP being one of the Uygur separatist movements.
As for CIA involvement, that's probably just a random conspiracy theory.
"The multibillion-dollar purchase of Nokia, on the other hand, was on Copilot's list of mistakes"
Never knew that. So that explains why Nokia tanked.
Also relevant: the enshittification of Skype since MS acquired it.
At least they have left Swiftkey mostly alone, although I sometimes wonder what it phones home about.
Just some quotes from a Very Important European:
"We decide on something, leave it lying around, and wait and see what happens. If no one kicks up a fuss, because most people don't understand what has been decided, we continue step by step until there is no turning back."
“Of course there will be transfers of sovereignty. But would I be intelligent to draw the attention of public opinion to this fact?,”
"I'm ready to be insulted as being insufficiently democratic, but I want to be serious ... I am for secret, dark debates"
On French referendum over EU constitution
“If it's a Yes, we will say 'on we go', and if it's a No we will say 'we continue’,”
Brexit may have happened for all the wrong reasons, but it's probably still better it happened.
"The White House wants Uncle Sam to revert to "merit-based" hiring.
This is what The Register thinks equal opportunities should be all about, though: Recruiting people with the most appropriate skills for a role irrespective of race, gender, or background."
I read these two sentences a few times and still don't see a disparity between them.
Appropriate skills equals merit, no?
Me: How many R's are there in raspberry?
- There are two R's in the word "raspberry." One at the beginning and one towards the end.
Me: Are you sure there are only two r's in raspberry?
- Yes, I'm sure! The word "raspberry" has two R's: one at the beginning and one towards the end. It can be a bit tricky because the first R is silent when pronounced.
Me: So, if a letter is not pronounced, it does not count in writing?
- Actually, even if a letter is not pronounced, it still counts in writing. The spelling of a word includes all its letters, regardless of whether they are pronounced. For example, in "raspberry," the first R is silent, but it is still part of the correct spelling.
English can be tricky with its silent letters! Do you have any other questions about spelling or pronunciation?
Me: So, essentially, you just told me raspberry has three r's?
I see where the confusion might be! To clarify, "raspberry" has two R's in its spelling: one at the beginning and one towards the end. The silent R at the beginning is still counted in the written form, even though it's not pronounced.
So, the word "raspberry" definitely has two R's. English spelling can be quite tricky with its silent letters!
And people use this to get work done?
Look for Opentherm compatible hardware.
My house already came with a Opentherm compatible heater, so I bought a simple compatible thermostat.
It doesn't have Wifi, because it's not necessary.
I bought a Opentherm gateway for thirty euros and stuck a ESP8266 on it for the Wifi.
This connects it to Domoticz running on a Raspberry Pi.
It has been working flawless for over six years now.
No account necessary, no third party server necessary and an open protocol.
I can set the temperature from my phone, my PC or on the thermostat itself, but mostly it just runs a schedule programmed in Domoticz.
If needed, I can VPN home and operate the thermostat from anywhere.
Apart from setting the temperature I can also monitor outgoing and returning water temperatures.
"captain is barking down orders from on high and the rating standing next to the camera is saying some very NSFW phrases in describing what he thought of the captain."
Being neither a native speaker nor familiar with navy ranks, isn't the function of a rating to rate the captain?
Seems to uninitiated me he was just doing his job.
"So how do you feel about straight couples holding hands in public?"
The same as gays holding hands.
You see, bragging about their sexual prowess & practices, or mincing around on screen being as revoltingly provocative as possible is not the same as holding hands.
Yes, destroying a company's property because their customers are assholes, that's very ethical behaviour.
They all do have options to alert them to badly parked vehicles. Done it many times. First time offenders get a warning, second time a fine, third time lose the ability to rent.
Or so they say...
Here the council occasionally removes them when the assholery of parking is really off the scale, like the moron who parked on a pedestrian crossing, on the ribbed pavement that serves as a tactile guide for the blind. In that case I think you can be quite sure the rental company pases on the cost to the customer.
In our computer lab in uni we had printers that would name their print job. So if you would print from WordPerfect, on the tiny screen of the printer it would say "HP job".
You can probably see where this is going, but I was never able to change the name of the WordPerfect executable or create a program with a suitable name.
"If I were in charge, Israel would never get another dime of aid from the US until they GTFO of all occupied territories."
I quote Yuval Noah Harari here:
"In the mid-2000s, Israel unilaterally retreated from the entire Gaza Strip, dismantled all settlements there and returned to the internationally recognised pre-1967 border.
......
Instead, Hamas took over the Gaza Strip and turned it into a terrorist base from which repeated attacks were launched on Israeli civilians. "
Read his essay here:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/12/israelis-palestinians-greatest-danger-since-1948
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