No one has just the Yorkshire pudding on a plate

They were traditionally served as a starter. I’d have mine with a bit of jam when I was young.

Two em-dashes and emojis. I’m just sayin.

I wish that they’d had a startup screen that said “it’s now dangerous to turn off your computer”.

I found a setting to switch the key functions, but it still doesn’t help with the other differences. I just have to learn to mentally change gears when using a Mac.

Moving the cursor by words, for example, is ctrl-cursor on PC, but option-cursor on Mac. So switching Ctrl/Fn doesn’t help with that.

Not to mention tapping on the screen to select something does not go well on the Mac…

The immediate regret will be when they discover that Ctrl isn’t where they expect it to be, followed by the discovery that it doesn’t get used for copy and paste anyway.

Which came first, the chicken or the soup?

+R.

If you’d asked me, I’d have said that I always bought -R, but I guess I was different person back then.

I made some DVDs for someone recently. First I had to dig out my old laptop that has a drive. Then install authoring and burning software.

All the help forum posts that I found were at least 15 years old, I’m amazed that any of the recommended software still existed.

I found that I still had two plastic tubes of DVD+Rs!

I’m a big… proponent… of handheld rechargeable air blowers after getting one from Wolfbox.

I always felt like I was risking frostbite with the cans.

No, I think that those are those ring things with a hole in them.

That sounds worth investigating, thanks! Amcrest needs an account for notifications afaik, but the Pro cameras can work just on a local network.

The app for them is awful. Then they made a new version that is awful in slightly different ways, so I’m interested in new options.

It mentions push notifications and emails, so I guess they must require an account, or can you configure them to use SMTP directly, as with the Amcrest Pro cameras?

Reminds me of this.

https://www.pcgamer.com/fallout-3-metro-trains-were-powered-by-running-npcs-apparently/

I heard of it from this video

https://youtu.be/9Ch4a6ffPZY

It’s just one of several tells. Although you can’t really rely on anything. Just like “badly-drawn hands” is less likely to show up now.

Once I heard this, I had to learn how to type them, btw!

I have it add a backup suffix based on the date. It moves changed and deleted files to another directory adding the date to the filename.

It can also do hard-link copied so that you can have multiple full directory trees to avoid all that duplication.

No file deltas or compression, but it does mean that you can access the backups directly.

Have you seen the Saturday Morning Watchmen fan trailer?

https://youtu.be/YDDHHrt6l4w

And there’s are those gadgets that have a USB-C socket but don’t have the correct circuitry, so that they only work with a USB-A to C cable.

For newer pixels there’s a feature that runs a local AI to monitor the conversation and will alert you if the conversation seems scam-like.

Telling grandma to be suspicious of buying Target cards to pay the IRS might be an actual good use for AI.

Pykrete was invented by the cousin of the science TV presenter whose voice can be heard on Thomas Dolby’s “She Blinded Me With Science”.

Via Tom Scott’s newsletter, an explanation of a strange ngrams anomaly in an xkcd. Why is the 11th of all months apparently the least popular date?

https://drhagen.com/blog/the-missing-11th-of-the-month/