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Where would I put this file on my Firefox install ?

I really hope this will support VR when it comes out.

I refer to myself as 'Daddy' when talking to my cats. I don't there's any hope for me.

Based on how we see so many 'OS in the Browser' links here on HN, am I right to be underwhelmed by this one?

I use:

https://www.cultpens.com/i/q/PL00019/pilot-g2-07-gel-ink-rol...

Perfect for my scrappy always-upper-case chicken scratch. I've tried so many other types of rollerball pens (as a leftie with dyslexia, fountain pens are completely off the menu), and how found these to be the only type of pen I can actually write with.

Agreed. I feel sorry for Sten, not the company or the other employees.

That said, even as shortly back in the 90s, mental illness was still ridiculed and something to be ashamed of, at least we've made progress in that area these days.

The dungeon generation shown is the same as Brian Sawyer's 'Dungeon' game from 1979:

http://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/2013/02/game-85-dungeon-1979....

Not sure if Brian Sawyer is the original designer of this approach though?

This one...

http://www.roysac.com/asciinudes/default.html#Joan

...is the all time classic. Every time I logged onto a new mainframe/DEC-VAX system, it'd be sitting in a folder somewhere.

I even had a personal copy printed out on several sheets of paper[1] that has now alas, been lost to time.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_stationery

Unless you have a Android Blackberry device (KeyOne or Key2 etc) the free version of the hub is feature restricted, so you have to pay (an ongoing sub) to get the full Hub experience.

The main problem is that a lot of sites no longer show a link to their RSS feeds, or include a meta tag for it.

So I've resorted to trying the following until the RSS reed comes up:

  example.com/feed
  example.com/feed.xml
  example.com/rss
  example.com/rss.xml
  example.com/xml
  ...etc

In most cases the feed WILL be there somewhere as the feature is still in the web framework that's being used.

#1194 here, same situation. I feel slightly less irrelevant now. ;)

I tried this, but my work uses MS Teams, which doesn't honour do-not-disturb. When you set DnD on, the app STILL flashes it's taskbar icon, creating a distraction. The only way around it is to mute all the noisy teams channels, and to remember to unmute them later. Also, being @-ed in a chat totally overrides DnD as well, and the sales guys have worked this out, and @ people constantly all day long.

I even tried not having Teams running when I was 'in the zone' only to end up being called on the phone to check 'whether I was working today'... :(

Dead link (HN hug of death?)

Cached copy:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eZI_am...

I can - send me an email.

Then maybe search engines should show a little 'paywalled' tag next to the result so the user is aware before they click?

Care to explain this?

As much as I love HN, it is an echo chamber on some topics. Also sometimes people are too afraid to post a contrary opinion for fear of getting voted down to oblivion, as such some threads just become full of 'me-too' type comments.

My wish is for more text centric HN-alike forums, which cover the topics that HN doesn't, but is populated by the same type of people that HN has - i.e. mostly polite and knowledgeable, with a desire to contribute to the discussion.

Reddit is not it, nor are any of the other forums I've found so far.

Thanks for the offer but... I know there's torrents of the whole lot out there, but for me part of the enjoyment is buying the discs (at a slow pace, due to budget), ripping them, and watching them.

I'm now using ffmpeg to transcode 'acquired' h265 media to h264 for my Pi. It would be nice if a future Pi could support h265.

In Kodi's settings you can specify a lower resolution for the menus. Not sure if that changes the controls overlay during playback though.

My Kodi set-up is a few-years-old copy of LibreELEC[1] set to NOT auto update. I've barely configured it beyond giving the SMB paths to my video collection. I ignore all the meta-data rubbish it wants to add, and just browse to what I want to watch via the text-based list that's built into the default skin. It's all running on a Raspberry Pi 3b hooked into my big home theatre rig.

Granted, 90% of my Kodi viewing is Dr Who episodes[2] so I'm probably not the target market for it, but as long as you don't fiddle with it, it works just fine.

What I WOULD like is a new skin that strips everything out of the UI except my video library. I have absolutely no use for the music section, the photos(who seriously uses that?!) or the weather. I've briefly looked into the XML that is used for Kodi skinning, but life is too short for me even to want to go there.

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[1] https://libreelec.tv/

[2] http://www.jaruzel.com/apps/drwho/

I want to build one of these for my Amigas, do you have a link to a schematic? Thx.

WARNING: Site starts playing loud music immediately on load.

> Having said that, tiger can hit his 9 iron 180 if he wants.

Unfortunately, not any more. :(

I do. My desktop PC (running Windows 10) goes black, and then floats a nice digital clock and date around the screen in white. It does this for about 5 minutes, and then my monitor goes to sleep. It's a nice transition between the two states.

On Chrome (Windows) the box frames at the bottom are no right-aligned either.

Have you thought about using <canvas> and just writing OEM DOS style characters where they need to be like some sort of obscene franken-video-buffer?

Adding my voice to this one. I think a lot of work 'normal people' i.e. the PMs the non-technical management, the sales people etc. really don't get how we techies work. Because they have to do 'active' work all day long to keep on top, they think everyone is like that, where in reality we are really efficient in short bursts. I can ponder a deliverable for days and then just churn it out over a few hours, only taking breaks for coffee intake/discharge. The normals keep asking me 'how far have you got with X' during the whole period, and they don't seem like it when I say 'I'm thinking about it, but I've not done anything yet'.

it's a link buried inside a lot of the bundled utilities in Windows. It forces URLs to use Edge as the browser instead of your chosen default one.

Windows 11 has a news & weather popup widget that sits down by the clock, in which you can click on the live tiles shown to take you to more info on the web. This widget uses microsoft-edge:// URI scheme so Edge is ALWAYS invoked.

Mozilla tried to hack their way around it, and it's been a few weeks of cat and mouse on it. At the moment, MS are winning.

It's like they've totally forgotten the events of the IE anti-trust stuff.

What I hadn't realised (due to not having thought heavily about it) is that it's NOT just about the amount of ice melting that threatens sea levels, but the weight and location of the ice before it melts.

The Antarctic landmass is weighed down by millions of tons of ice, and when (if?) that melts in significant amounts, the land will rise up due to no longer having that frozen mass on top of it. This will cause even more water to be displaced as Antarctica becomes much bigger, and higher than the current 'sea level'. Like throwing pebbles in a cup, this causes the overall sea-level to rise, in addition to the impact the melted ice has.

[Utterly Off-topic] - The body font on that page is 'zilla-slab' which to me looks really nice, definitely Courier New's beautiful cousin.