Wow, nice catch on the hex codes!

Not who you were replying to, but thanks for this. I’m hoping to give Linux a go this year, on an old laptop that isn’t needed anymore, and this makes me feel more confident about it!

They only run Miaowcrosoft products.

Is your friend related to the person in this song?

Purple and red and yellow and on fire…

If that was genuinely a typo, it’s brilliant!

Chicago is in Illinois, whose 2 letter code is IL 😁

I saw Stephen Fry suggest once that it be pronounced “Wuh Wuh Wuh” which I kind of like :-)

I think OP was saying the opposite. They use(d) the N to avoid Netflix originals. Which may also be an answer as to why they have (apparently) removed it.

Seems better to me though, the N was annoying, and there have been some very good Netflix originals, so it’d be a shame if people refused to even consider them on that basis alone.

As long as you are not in major target city … you will be fine.

That seems pretty complacent tbh.

First of all even just the top 30 cities in the US are home to about 41 million people. Which seems a lot of folk to simply write off.

Also, the destruction of the major cities would cause huge/complete economic, social, infrastructural and legal collapse for the rest of the country.

Plus, even for those outside the immediate blast radius, there’d be the massive environmental impact of pollution to land and water, not least the potential for a nuclear winter killing off crops, and then animals.

Turns out my house was outside the blast radius if the base was nuked.

Without knowing the size of the bomb, how could you know you would be outside it? Not that blast radius is all that matters anyway.

Come, friendly nukes…

It’s not at all uncommon for major cities to be on or near bodies of water, eg London, LA, NYC, Sydney, Tokyo, Rio, etc. It’s a facilitator to (and outcome of) trade/travel and also can be a source of food and water (for cities on rivers/lakes, obviously).

And it’s also not uncommon for major cities to become capital cities.

Not really surprising that as a country with one coastline, they have their capital so close to the sea.

The majority of phone reviewers (and modern tech reviewers in general) get their review units for free so they lack that feeling and awareness that comes with spending $1000+ of their own money on a new device.

Agreed, but if I ever spent a 1000 bucks on any product, I’d expect it to be able to sit in a usable position without wobbling.

I’m glad they’re highlighting this - the more the better until phone design is improved to eliminate such a stupid flaw.

In the way that this supreme power would exist, there is no way for us to quantify it.

So, dark matter, then?

/jk

It’s a place on Earth.

Just change it to We Wished You…

I usually have 50-70 tabs open, spread across 6-8 windows.

Each window is for a particular client, usually with various pages from their website, plus the equivalent CMS editing page, their socials, etc. I’m regularly doing a small job for one client here, another there, and so on, so it’s easier to just leave them open.

I also usually have at least one or two windows with my own stuff - Lemmy, BlueSky, a football ⚽ forum I use, YouTube, BBC News, etc.

It’s messy, but it works on the whole. It’s a pain whenever I need to restart or run updates though, since I need to check every tab to make sure it’s safe to close! 😁

Great tune!

Good shout - OP, this is probably the one.

https://youtu.be/bbqVg_23otg

This is a stunningly beautiful extended metaphor.

+1 on Ask Dad videos - this is a good channel: https://youtube.com/@dadhowdoi

Also +1 on everything else you said, especially the never stop learning point.

OP, it’s totally ok not to know things - you can seek them out in advance, or you can discover them along the way, as and when necessary.

You’ll be ok, pretty much everyone muddles through life one way or another. Best of luck 👍

Naggers, right?