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Teletext is one way. Your receiver decodes the page you request, but you have no uplink.

Teletext was made by major broadcasters, so NBC/ABC/CBS in the US might have had a service. It is just broadcasted as part of the signal, so the actual hardware is in the end users device. All TV's in the UK and Europe just had teletext decoders built in as standard. The cost of entry was not high at all. The only expense was updating the content. But honestly, that wasn't really a massive effort unless you wanted a lot of graphics (ASCII style, obviously.) It was a bout as much effort as a local news paper or a well maintained BBS.

Ah - you are conflating Germanic for German. Germanic is not equivalent to German. German (deutsch) is a national language, Germanic is a language family. German belongs to this family, but it is not the root of all Germanic languages. English and German sit in the West Germanic branch, the East Germanic was mostly Gothic (dead) and the North Germanic languages are Swedish/Danish/Norwegian/Icelandic/Faroese and various other non national languages. English is a West Germanic language, but it was massively influenced by Old Norse (North Germanic) and various Frenches (and Latin/Greek in technical terms) as well as probably the native British languages somewhat in grammar (the present continuous tense in English also happens in Welsh, and is not very Germanic.)

So - Window is Germanic. It comes from Old Norse 'vindauga', and the modern Norwegian Bokmal version is 'vindu'[1].

The German word for Window comes from Latin [2].

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vindu

[2] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fenster

I have a Mac Pro 1,1 and trying this might actually be kind of cool and give it more life. It is pretty limited otherwise and the 3,1 it sits next to is way more practical.

I stayed on Catalina for a long time as it was the last version my Macbook Pro 2012 supported natively. It is a pretty solid OS, though it is harder to get Apple services running on it now.

I personally just use Sonoma now on my Macbook Pro M3 Pro.

PowerPC you have Leopard or Tiger, the latter being "faster" but more limited. You can also install the version of Leopard someone added Snow Leopard beta parts to, which I do have on my PPC MacMini, but it still gives you limited returns.

With PowerPC you might be better looking at a third party. I hear good things about MorphOS, though never tried it. You could do Linux too.

When I was in school in the 80's, I remember seeing these books stacked up at the back of the classroom. There were other Ladybird books in English standard spelling (they were really common), but these were weird. The teacher just told us to ignore them. But weirdly, the text is really easy to read int he examples given. I never used or even read the ones in my youth, so it must just be easy for my brain to process (disclaimer, I am a speaker of basic Swedish and a little Norwegian, so I am used to reading words with odd spellings and going "oh right, that is X in English.")

I have had tinnitus for most of my life. When I was a child I had a massive ear infection that burst my eardrum on the left side and that is the worse side. Honestly I can just tune it out and it seems normal. It mainly causes issues in louder environments because it can be difficult to hear what people are saying. And it doesn’t need to be very loud. A bar with music and lots of people talking around me can be enough.

It is totally possible to exist with it though.

Would it be the classes Java has always had that sit inside a parent class and can access the instance fields/properties of the parent? These are very Java, and hard to recreate in a language that doesn't support that type of embedding. C# really struggles with it. Using the Android API via Xamarin was always very much harder to do anything with because of this symbiotic relationship. I have done a little Kotlin, but I don't remember if it support that or not.

I don't really see any cross platform framework hitting "critical mass". React Native is very accessible to web developers. Are you sure that is not just information bias from your own situation? For me, most cross platform solutions are a race down to the lowest common denominator (and this is from someone who has used Xamarin Forms and MAUI in production apps.) Sure, you get to use your favourite tech stack (for us it was .Net) and you get familiar tools and metaphors, but the overall results are very uncanny valley unless you put a lot of effort in to styling for each platform.

If you use more than one of their IDEs on a regular basis, I'm going to be honest - it starts to make more sense that the change between IDEs is less jarring. I use Rider a lot, and Pycharm and Android Studio infrequently, and I like that all of the IDEs are so similar that I know how to do most things as the settings and menu system is almost identical. I also use the IDEs on Windows, Mac and sometimes Linux - and the UI is similar enough that I do not ever struggle to make something work that I have previously done in any of the platforms or OS versions

Gaelic arrived in Scotland within 100 years of English arriving in England. They are both attested to arrive in around the 4th - 5th AD century IIRC. Before that Scotland spoke Pictish (which is not known in the modern era and may/maynot have been a Brythonic language) and a language related to Welsh in the Lowlands. Gaelic is a very interesting language and should absolutely get championed and preserved, but it is not the ancient language of Scotland, and hasn't really been spoken there much longer than the English language was in the UK.

Yeah - but they were there when I was a kid in the 70's and 80's so predates the notion of Estuary English. They come more from the fact Portsmouth had a big influx of dock workers from East end of London at one point. The vowels are completely different. Where london would take "town" and make it "taahn" (like a long ah sound) we say "teihn" (to rhyme with plane, but not pure, more breathy, hence my h) - it's not a pure. I would "oy" like in "boy". The vowels are very Hampshire.

In the UK, some traditional dialects are almost different languages. It is not really like that anymore, but people do have whole swathes of vocabulary that outsiders do not understand.

I think in France you got rid of the diversity in a lot of ways by having the French Language Academy.

Those words are used, but a lot of people on the island use a massively watered down version of the dialect now. When I was a kid we said "baw" for "ball" "vis,va' 'n fing" for "this, that and thing" and "dinny/din/dinlo" (simpleton/idiot), "mush/musty" (a person, you may know, but don't want to name - a bit like "mate"), "kark it" (died), "lairy" (as in cheeky, obnoxious, pushy - hard to describe.), "lakes" (originally "cool" but started to be ironic), "wew X" as an emphasis ("wew" being "well", so "wew smar'" (really "smart", as in really good), "wew lairy" (really "pushy/cheeky/whatever it means"). "Giving i' aw va'" ("Giving it all that", being lairy/trying it on.) "kushty" (great/good). And much more. I can't write down everthing unfortunately.

As I said, you still here all this when Parkies speak, but on the Island it is a lot less heard these days.

Pompey is less strong on the island these days, but Leigh Park people sound like I remember from childhood still.

SheepShaver was originally virtualised and not emulated. The original version ran MacOS in a virtual machine on PowerPC BeOS (BeBox and Mac that ran BeOS.) Because of this it ran at full speed and was akin to the Classic environment on early MacOS X. I used to use it to run IE5 as the BeOS browser was quite poor and PowerPC never got any ports of more modern browsers. It ran really well and could be made full screen.

The UK is shutting down 3G aggressively. Vodafone closed 3G last year and most other providers are closing this year. For me that means the poor 4G reception and okay 3G has become poor 4G and useless 2G. The issue is they have closed 3G without any improvement to the 4G network and no sniff of 5G.

SVT Play (app or web) is a very good resource, and it is mostly subtitled in Swedish, which helps a lot. From the UK (at any rate) it is pretty rare to find many of the shows with georestructions, I do not find many. It is worth trying it without a VPN first, as you might be able to save money.

As I mentioned above, NRK is not so great. Most of the content is geoblocked, and you need a norwegian digital ID to watch it outside of Norway (or at least, Skandinavia) without a VPN. They also regularly block VPN's, so as an example, Tunnelbear used to be fine (and gives a fairly generous free tier if you play the "invite friends and do some tasks" game), but last time I tried, it was no longer working with the NRK TV app.

A great Swedish reading resource is 8Sidor (https://8sidor.se/) which is the news in "lätt svenska" (easy swedish.) You can subscribe to a physical copy, but honestly the site is great and has built in tools to aid translation (selecting a word or phrase it can easily be translated with a few clicks.)

A lot of SVT is available with no VPN. It also has apps, so I tend to watch it on an Apple TV.

I second comic books, though the Swedish tends to be super colloquial and you will get stuff like "dig" rendered as "dej" (which is how it is generally pronounced, but not how it is formally written.) Kalle Anka is always the classic go to for Swedish learners.

NRK on the other hand actively tries to block everyone, which makes Norwegian a lot less accessible.

No, we didn't call them that. Bum bag was the name. Bum being about as profane as fanny in the US, and probably the same thing.

It's pretty mild, but still offensive in the UK. Your friend was right to believe that much. That everyone thinks it means that? No - the US uses it differently for a region of the body slightly less offensive. It's a bit like spunk, which is also fairly offensive in the UK, and fag, which despite having an offensive meaning in the US, is actually traditionally not offensive here, though the US meaning is known and sometimes used - it means "cigarette" here mostly, and "faggot" means something less offensive too (a bunch of sticks or a type of meatball like dish.)

Only on Windows. For other platforms it has very limited support for the Unreal engine and not much else.

Isn't that mostly because Android uses its own VM, not a standard Java one?

Okay, so update - we went to the local Morrisons (another chain) over lunch and got 18 eggs (they are sold from trays that you box yourself, but we just took half a tray) for £5.40 (so, what? US$6.82) The eggs are sold by the egg too, 0.30 each, so we could have bought any number we wanted really. They are also free-range. Remember too, in Europe eggs don't need to be refrigerated because we don't treat then to remove the outer layer.

Wow! I wondered about this article - US centric. I wondered because eggs are not expensive here. I just looked [1] [2]. I can get a dozen free range for about US$4 at the current conversion rate. They are a supermarket own brand, but even the "fancy" ones are something like that for 6, but some are actually still close to $4 for 12.

The US chicken market (not necessarily eggs specifically) was in the Morgan Spurlock documentary follow up to "Supersize me", and it looked like the chicken "mafia" controlled the business.[3]

[1] https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/search?query=eggs&inpu... [2] https://groceries.asda.com/search/eggs [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Size_Me_2:_Holy_Chicken!

My issue isn't that it does or does not highlight an area, it is that sometimes it highlights an area that is not a building and the instructions are a bit vague as to is this is "correct" or not. One example - I see it highlighting someone's back yard with a swimming pool. It is not a building. Is this correct or not? I mean,it has identified the shape perfectly, but it is not a building. I feel like lazy people clicking through CAPTCHA is not the place to make important decisions on OpenStreetMap map level features without a lot of filtering of the results.

I see people more and more ignoring this rule too on wider non light controlled (Zebra) crossings. Sadly a lot of them are taxi drivers and they are often recent immigrants. Rules vary a lot, but in Europe the general rule seems to be that the driver is not penalised for crossing lane of a crosswalk behind a pedestrian after they have passed the middle of the road. I have no idea if that is actual law, but you see it in France, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Czechia and Spain for sure (as in I have witnessed it there first hand.)

"Cars driving at you" is probably a dialectical thing.

It is more attitude. As in - people in the UK seem to have a vendetta against pedestrians in the road.

I know the laws surrounding cycling and pedestrians changed even recently, but no one in my experience actually cares and carries on as before.

If you are crossing a busy road, no one will stop for you. Maybe parts of the UK that are more rural are different, but in cities this is the case. You will always get across at a crossing, and cars are generally not trying to run you down. Though, Zebra crossings have started in recent times to be more problematic, and I see people driving across them whilst people are still on the crossing regularly.

Anecdote example: When I was a kid I got clipped by a car because of this (the heel of my back foot got struck by a car who was basically giving nothing and driving at me, despite me being over 50% across a road that was only 2 lanes and not particularly wide.) In North America this doesn't happen. Cars will drive at you, but they will generally stop and let you go. In the UK you are made to feel like a criminal for daring to cross a road most of the time.

In the UK, it is very rare for a pedestrian crossing that is controlled by a button press to not completely stop traffic. The first time I was in North America as an adult, I realised that when on a crosswalk drivers will come sailing at you and will cross behind you as you cross over. That is illegal here. The drivers need to wait for the pedestrians to cross, even on "Zebra" crossings (which are the ones with no buttons and striped lines across the road.) The only exception to this is if there is a traffic island in the middle of the road, and then they are treated as 2 different crossings. But quite often those are staggered, so the pedestrian can't just walk out directly from one side to the other.

The trade off is that the pedestrian has pretty much no right of way anywhere but a crossing, and cars will drive at you (or at least not stop for you) if you try to cross somewhere that is not a crossing. Though "Jaywalking" is not a thing and you can actually cross where ever you like.