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I think Gopher would be an even more unworkable shit show than HTTP/HTML is it had to deal with the last thirty year of changes.

Now, Teletext on the other hand...

Most countries have fixed-rate mortgages. Most rental properties are also mortgaged. So a renter is paying for maintenance/insurance/tax costs, the landlord's profits margin and the landlord's mortgage.

Mortgage payments are almost universally lower than rent payments. With rent, you're paying for upkeep, maintenance, administration, a profit margin and the landlord's mortgage.

Yes, it is considered good protocol to include the header.

How do you improve this? Easy. You improve it the same way you improve the Sistine Chapel, There Will Come Soft Rains or Nick Offerman's moustache: you leave it the fuck alone.

Which just makes this model all the more impressive.

They should have sent a poet.

It's short for EnorMous Dash. Not to be confused with the ENormous Dash.

Yeah, Al's a prick.

My two cents (and, no, I've not read the article): things like retractable door handles are fine if they're designed to function completely standalone with no power, etc. Like, having a door handle that's flush with the body looks great and is one less thing to cause noise in a quiet car, but I don't see why it couldn't be completely mechanical and self-contained. The issue is that every little fucking thing has to be motorised and controlled through a touch panel, an app, or some utterly inscrutable "AI" without opt-out.

Look on eBay for USFF PCs. They're mini computers the size of paperback books that are designed for use in large organisations, and they're made by the usual suspects - HP and Dell mostly. Because they get replaced regularly they're cheap but they're just regular desktop PC hardware. A ten year old i5 can handle being a 4K media centre no problem and can be had for €/£/$70.

I've been stuck in a loop for three hours. I only escaped because someone slapped the phone out of my hands.

Yeah, it's hard to overstate what a big deal real-time traffic data was/is. And I have to wonder, how many traffic jams are prevented - or at least reduced - by it. How did we manage before Waze et al.? We were just late a lot more.

Think of it like this: what happens if two artists paint the same sunset? It's the results of their efforts that is protected, not the inspiration.

TIL that NextCloud can use an external database.

It's cloud all the way down.

Seriously, though, this and the jute runner in the hallway. Mm-mmm.

Put this on your desk with a spigot on the side, and the humidifier on the other side of the room. Congratulations: pipeless pipe.

There's not many objects that you use with the same regularity and intimacy as a mouse other than footwear and furniture. If they're a bit off you get used to them to the point their flaws become part of their charm. I got my Microsoft Sculpt Mouse when they were brand new. It's still going strong and I'll be heartbroken when it eventually dies but, at the risk of jinxing it, it's showing no signs.

And how do you know this? Is it because someone said "this is true" and then someone else was then able to say "no it isn't - and here's the evidence".