Re: Windows
So that after hours the station staff can play Candy Crush.
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"/me can't find 'poo' icon..."
I'm sure it's in Unicode somewhere, though YMMV when it comes to rendering that properly. U+1F4A9 or 💩 if that helps.
Edit: El Reg says "The post contains some characters we can’t support", so I deleted the actual poop character.
"Which child is running through all of these posts and downvoting? This doesn’t even have any content one could be offended by!"
Long fingernails on a man is apparently an offense against nature. I always get at least one downvote when I mention it. On the other hand, no one has ever managed to explain to me why long fingernails on males is an evil sin, while long fingernails on females is an entire industry.
Here's a hint to the fashion industry, follow the example of the razor industry from the early 20th century, who made female pubic hair a sign of the devil, to sell twice as many razors. Make long fingernails on males fashionable, and sell twice as many fake nails.
I wonder how many downvotes I can get by mentioning long fingernails on men, long toenails, being barefoot, and the Dvorak keyboard? I'm sure I left something out.
"Is your keyboard made of butter, or is that you Wolverine?"
While my quick healing and long strong claws lean more to the Wolverine side, I keep them blunt. It's safer for all that way. And in this current heatwave, a keyboard made of butter would just be a sticky puddle on the floor.
"Hmmm, I loathe touchpads and keep them permanently disabled."
When I know I'll be using a laptop, I carry a mouse with me. Touchpads loathe me and my long strong fingernails. My home keyboard has deep gouges in some of the keys, a touchpad doesn't stand a chance. For the same reason I've learned to cope with capacitive touch screens, much prefer the older resistive style.
"ISTR that there was some effort towards a film version of some sort, but don't know what came of it."
The books where a trilogy, but someone thought it would be best to make a trilogy out of each book, then someone pointed out that to be true to the source, things should be done in threes, so each trilogy had it's own set of sequels. Then they noticed the other three books. At this point the projected cost of making the films got so astronomical even the first Rama spaceships couldn't keep up. So they canned the entire deal.
Somewhere deep in Hollywierd, there are people thinking of trying a second time, then a third time, just to be consistent.
"I should imagine cosmic plod will hove into view sharpish and cuff the crims (i.e. us)"
At least we get a response out of them, and answered some big questions, though obviously creating more questions. Like what should we do when big alien Bubba drops the soap with a grin?
"Letting them now there could be valuable resources to pillage does not seem very clever, does it?"
By the time the signal gets there, they organise themselves, and get back to us, we would have depleted all the valuable resources anyway. Unless they consider stupidity to be valuable.
If one of the things they are looking for is the lower resolution of the fakes, then it might be as simple as using ever higher resolution original images to feed into the faking software. Something I learned in my video editing days, if you have to use source material that has been through lossy compression, start with the highest resolution you can get. Better to not use source material compressed that way though.
"a Down Under government source in reporting that on at least one occasion Huawei was pressed by the Chinese government to provide access to a foreign network."
Isn't that the sort of thing recent Aussie legislation is trying to make sure the Aussie government can do? You know, the legislation that world+dog is saying is a really bad idea.
I've used both GNOME and KDE in the past, but eventually decided that those desktops that use less resources where for me. I was a fan of Enlightenment for a long time, even a developer for it. These days I use LXDE and LXDM, though I might give awesome a try some day.
On the other hand, I no longer use Red Hat based distros, I switched to Debian based ones long ago. Recently switched to Devuan for my main desktop and server boxen.
A recent report I read said that there's been more heat held in the oceans than previously suspected. Wish I could recall the details, like where that was. El Reg? Aussie ABC news site? Maybe somewhere else?
So dumping excess heat into the ocean vs the air may or may not be a good idea.
Microsoft dumping the slurp is a great idea though, they should do so, then we might stop laughing at them. Well, not so much laughter at least.
Perhaps they can compromise? Stop slurping, stick all the stuff they have slurped so far into one of those underwater data centers, and toss the thing into the deepest part of the ocean, never to be seen or heard from again.
"If you want a powerful server that you can stick in your rucksack or airline carry-on bag,"
I've regularly carried a desktop system, complete with monitor, keyboard, mouse, couple of network switches, WiFi AP, and assorted cables in my backpack. Then again, my pack is likely a litle bigger than your rucksack or airline carry-on bag.
"Or for macOS/iOS application developers to send compile jobs to."
That's basically what I bought my Mac Mini for. Needed to make sure my cross platform application worked on Mac OS as well as Linux and Windows, and something to build it with. Didn't want to get a Mac with a screen, mouse, and keyboard, I already had a KVM setup with spare ports. Didn't have much spare space on the desktop for aa big machine. The Mac Mini was perfect for that job. I've upgraded it, and it's still working fine, so I don't need to buy a new one yet.
My main desktop I do everything else with is Linux, and I have a small Windows test box to.
"Kaspersky can do that, but the problem is that that doesn't catch infections that do get their claws deep in the OS. I tend to run something like Little Snitch of Hands Off."
You mention lots of Microsoft stuff in your reply, I don't run any Microsoft stuff on my Mac. None of those are showing up in the Apple store. Little Snitch and Hands Off are firewalls basically. I was asking about malware scanners, and specifically about ones that don't hook into everything to catch active network traffic and file accesses. I just want a scanner.
"Unfortunately Hacker's Keyboard was recently pulled from the Play Store."
F-Droid has it. That's where I installed it from.
https://github.com/klausw/hackerskeyboard/issues/668
Which mentions a few places you can get it, including F-Droid, and obviously Github.
"Funny thing is I had been using Hacker's Keyboard up until a few months ago, but the English completion dictionary disappeared from the store."
Those should be "available from the website" according to F-Droid. Which means Github I think.