AnUnusualRelic

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

It could be a reference to 1572. The so called St Barthelemy Massacre.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

They'll just feed it the language spec. It'll be fine. Unless they try to run the result of course.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I've always thought that Unix (and therefore Linux) was much more internally consistent and accessible than Windows ever was.

Everything is in places that kind of make sense, there's heaps of documentation that comes with the system, you can set it up how you like it, you can see everything... There are actual logs that aren't hex gobbledygook...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe your parents should have picked a better name then.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

They're one of the greatest things to ever come out of IBM.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Did they post a Musk meme on reddit?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It is in the latest versions but it's very recent. The default has always been single click. They changed it because of windows users.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I think I tried it years ago. But it didn't really work with the windows ui for some reason. Nowadays I don't use it often enough to bother personalising it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

The amount of times I've had to say "No, you have to double click to open folders"

That's a real problem when you're used to Kde and have to use a windows machine.

(Why is this damn thing so slow ? Oooh, right, double click)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Well, it doesn't roll off the tongue in the same way, that's for sure.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I'm surprised they don't have a study saying you need five daily grams of micro plastics yet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Why did this lovecraftian horror crawl out of the beyond and into a frying pan?

 

I was just watching "American Primeval", when it occurred to me (again) that the US was a place where oddball religions could prosper. Two recent successful examples of very weird ones being Mormons and Scientology (although the latter is a bit less successful lately).

Why is it that weird things catch on so readily in the US?

Of course, the "founders" were people that were kicked out of everywhere else because they were trying to convert them to their extremist religious views (and yet US people are fond of trying to find family ties to them... "hey, my great, great, great grand father was a religious lunatic! But yours wasn't")

So now, Mormons (Jews totally rowed to the US, for some reason, and then Jesus came there, and there were horses, and cities, and there's absolutely no archaeological trace, probably because god) have an astounding foothold despite their creed (I'm saying this because I have read the book of Mormon).

Then there's Scientology, and I don't even know where to begin with that one, given how fucked up it is... If you don't know about it, start with Wikipedia.

Also (probably not finally, there's certainly more) there's the innumerable bizarre Christianity stuff in the US. It's such a mess. I don't even think that most of the evangelical groups are technically Christians.

So apparently,, in the US, anything goes. The holy Flying Spaghetti Monster, blessed be it's meat balls, showed us that. But then what?

The problem with the typical US "let anyone do whatever" is that vulnerable get fleeced at best.

 

Plasma 6 changed the way scrollbars work for some reason. Now when you click somewhere with mouse1 the elevator jums there and the window content scrolls accordingly.

Previously, it would scroll by one window's worth in the appropriate direction. If you wanted to jump to a given location, you just used mouse2 (typically the scroll wheel button nowadays). It has worked that way everywhere for literally decades.

After reading the very weird explanation for the change, I can only conclude that the devs don't even know how to use their interface.

Hence my question, is there a setting somewhere to switch back to the traditional behaviour?

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