We’ve been using Classic Shell since Day 1 of course. I modded it to quit qBittorrent when Mom opens the Shutdown dialog* (yes, she always opens that awful window) because that takes the longest to terminate. I’ll use it plus Explorer Patcher on 10, a semi-transparent taskbar without blur is so handy

* Classic Shell Start Menu can run arbitrary and predefined commands from buttons but not both at once. The Shutdown dialog can only be triggered with a JS script so I’m using a VBS script (unlike BAT or JS, it can run silently) that runs the JS script and taskkill command.

I’ve seen the whole series and I hate French. Krankenwagen is so much better than “aamboulaans”. It’s a Wagen for den Kranken!

That German word always brings a smile on my face, the Latin is a close second.

Btw Uhu is what we called white putty at my school because of the brand (we switched to cheaper Pritt long ago but it has stuck)

Our family PC still has 8.1 (parents really don’t like change and Firefox got security updates until recently). I think I’ll upgrade it to 10 when I have time, the amount of debloat required to keep it sane is manageable as opposed to 11. Mom could handle mildly riced XFCE Linux with Firefox and our legal copy of Office 2007 under Wine but dad uses Total Commander and won’t use anything other than drive letters.

Multicar M24 too

I think an electric variant could fit a larger, irregular bed or more likely, optionally extend the existing one with a flap

Would be a consolation prize in otherwise shit future. The Unicode Consortium’s current stance is “no more flag emoji”, which is ridiculous.

Gang in German means “gait”. It could be just a lone walking wolf.

Iron magnets are crap, but I imagine he does not know better having gone to school in the 50s-60s. But yes, those are magnetically weak enough and physically strong enough for a hammer to work.

The magnitude of physical stress waves a magnet has to undergo to be demagnetized is huge. Most magnetic materials will shatter instead unless the force is applied precisely.

I think he vaguely remembered something about electromagnetism and that water on electronics is a no-no.

The main takeaway is that he should appoint an engineer to advise him on technical topics (and Surgeon General on medical matters, etc.), otherwise any sufficiently sly corporate sponsor or media can easily steer his policy by pretending to be experts. I guess the only fields he does not need to delegate are being a douchebag on TV and lying about real estate.

Nice but those are some kitten-sized cows

Just watch it yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHP942Livy0

Tip #2 is not relevant in Europe and most other places using 230V mains because the dishwashers are only connected to cold water and have their own heater.

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I used to have to do more precleaning than that with a home dishwasher before I watched Technology Connections

I think it’s doing a lot more cleaning than it needs to, considering industrial ones in restaurants take less than a minute

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Yeah but some are able to get better at them than others. Talent does play a role and it’s best if interests align.

FYI: Sipnayan is a Tagalog word, originating from a 1969 attempt by a Filipino language committee to replace the Greek/Latin-originated matematika with low level of success, much like courriel etc. pushed by the French Academy

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I’ve got some news for you…

I hope at least the Unicode Consortium pulls their head out of their ass by then and defines sequences like

U+1F3F3 WAVING WHITE FLAG  
U+ FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16  
U+ 200D ZERO-WIDTH JOINER  
U+1F7E5 LARGE RED SQUARE  
U+ 200D ZERO-WIDTH JOINER  
U+1F7F7 (not yet existing) LARGE LIGHT ORANGE SQUARE  
U+ 200D ZERO-WIDTH JOINER  
U+ 21BC WHITE LARGE SQUARE  
U+ FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16 (forces emoji rendition of this pre-emoji character, also used in the existing trans flag sequence)  
U+ 200D ZERO-WIDTH JOINER  
U+1F7FA (not yet existing) LARGE LIGHT PURPLE SQUARE  
U+ 200D ZERO-WIDTH JOINER  
U+1F7EA LARGE PURPLE SQUARE

This would render as a striped flag like if supported on the platform (on devices before Unicode 20.0 like yours right now, the fallback is “🏳️‍🟥‍🟷‍⬜️‍🟺‍🟪”, much like the fallback of 🏳️‍⚧️ is “🏳️⚧️”). Fonts could include most common pride flags (with exact “canonical” color values) and/or the platforms could generate the stripes on the fly up to a limit. I think both approaches have been implemented for the family emoji set on some platforms (yup, those also use separate codepoints for members and ZWJs), after all. (I hope platforms adopt the latter approach, even though it enables arbitrary, evil “pride” flags like TERF or MAP − well, Unicode has always been able to express evil, valid Unicode sequences include U+0FD5 RIGHT-FACING SVASTI SIGN, U+1FAC3 PREGNANT MAN, U+20E0 COMBINING ENCLOSING CIRCLE BACKSLASH or the entire text of Mein Kampf.) And would people abuse it for color bitmap text art? Yes, like they do Braille now.

If you have a Chromium browser, that is. I’ll prefer installing libusb and using fastboot flash until there’s Firefox support.