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The pedant in me cannot let slide that your title talks of compact discs but the image is of write-once blank DVDs.

But no, I don’t use any form of 4.7" optical media very often. The last time I used the optical drive in this computer was to watch a DVD that I didn’t want to go downstairs and watch on the TV. That must be a good few months ago now.

As to why I even have such a drive - long, boring story. I had assumed that if I ever had need of one, I’d just take the one out of my old PC. When that time came, the newer PC refused to boot with that drive installed. (Imagine, if you will, being in that situation, and the ensuing horror and frustration.)

It then made sense to buy a different one to troubleshoot and cover that potential need. And I haven’t bothered to uninstall it after “testing”.

Edit: Sometimes I a word.

I assume they’re using (year - 2000) as the version number, which happens to match “last two digits” and will do until 2099. So any version of Minecraft released that year under the new system would be Minecraft 1002.x, not 2.x.

And here’s me thinking it was called Vintage Story.

Actually, Minecraft 26 comes out this year. They dropped the “1.” and bumped the sub-version from 21 to 26 to match the year. They’ve also changed the way the new second tier works to be related to the quarter-year.

26.1 is due next month.

So yeah, there’ll never be a Minecraft 2.0. The versioning no longer allows for it.

(This doesn’t rule out a game called “Minecraft II” with its own set of unrelated but identical version numbers. Minecraft II 36.1 drops in ten years. Maybe. But probably not.)

It’s kind of amazing that this is only anachronistic by four months. Both Bliss and (that image of) Tux are both from 1996, and Tux is younger.

Thirty years ago. Please excuse me while I turn to dust.

DDR4 is cheaper than DDR5, sure, but retailers have jacked the price of both by the same percentage, so it’s not really all that much of a rescue.

I expect people will need a full mortgage to pay for DDR6 when it comes out next year.

Ha. I’ve heard of Amazon offloading heavier parcels to municipal mail carriers, so I don’t see that working out.

The day they codify in law that public services should not make a profit, the lawsuits will begin. Those to reclassify all and sundry that we think of as public services as not being public services.

A necessity argument would result. Do people need electricity, gas and municipal water treatment? No. They can live off-grid. Therefore these are not public services.

Do people need public transport? No. They can walk or buy rent a car. Therefore public transport is not a public service.

Do people need police, fire, medical? No. Most people can go months, years without needing any of those. Therefore they can’t be public services either.

etc. etc.

I’m not saying I agree with any of that, but the expensive lawyers will be arguing these points and they’ll continue to argue them as long as there’s a profit to be made.

Although a processor might be nominally capable of accessing a bus of a certain width, it does not mean that all address or data lines need be connected.

There are groups with “humor”, “comic” and “meme” in the name, some of which have a decent amount of traffic.

Use whatever search feature is available to you (pretty sure this varies by app and platform) to track them down.

orange = {
    you = "glad",
    I = {
        didn\'t = {
            say = "banana"
        }
    }
}

That’s not even hard to prove. On one of my accounts, they’ve been popping up little notifications oh-so-innocently asking the user if they’re having problems. They contain a link telling the user to turn off their ad-blocker or whatever other browser add-ons might be interfering with Google’s ad delivery platform. I paraphrase slightly, but it’s what they mean.

But to answer the question, while remaining somewhat vague: I know of someone who is said to have died of a specific ailment, but they’d hit very hard times and were of a religion where taking one’s own life is, or was, considered incredibly taboo. My lurking suspicion is that they might have done the unthinkable and it was covered up for the sake of appearances.

That’s not something I think I’d ever be able to prove and trying would cause more harm than good.

Alt-text should be “Resistance is futile”.

It says “was” not “had”.

Interesting. And yet it’s still incomplete. F6 and Alt+D both do the same thing (focus the address bar), so there’s at least one line missing and definitely at least one column.

~/bin is the old-school location from before .local became a thing, and some of us have stuck to that ancient habit.

This must seriously be messing with the heads of people high up in insurance companies. On the one hand AI is something that no C-level can resist, but on the other, that’s an expensive way to say “no” to every request for money.

I’ve always just used gio trash (formerly gvfs-trash). KDE-based systems have something similar (but with syntax that’s perfectly logical but completely unsuitable, in my opinion).

The third party trash package works in places the GUI and the aforementioned GUI-related command line tools may not. I can’t tell whether this is a bug in trash or in the system tools, TBH.

For example, /tmp is one such directory where trash works but gio trash refuses.

Either way, the GUI Rubbish Bin won’t keep track if things are deleted from such places by trash.

If I’m about to run an rm with a slash in it, alarm bells go off in my head. I prefer to cd to the parent and then rm whatever without slashes in the name.

That didn’t save me the other day when I accidentally put a space before an asterisk, but thankfully that wasn’t in a place that was overly important.

Gotta retrain myself to look out for extra nothing now.

I dunno, ~/bin is a fairly common thing in my experience, not that it ends up containing many actual binaries. (The system started it, miss, honest. A quarter of the things in my system’s /bin are text based.)

~/etc is seriously weird though. Never seen that before. On Debians, most of the user copies of things in /etc usually end up under ~/.local/ or at ~/.filenamehere