It smells about how you’d think it would.

Killing off PHP is big

Yeah, it IS good for me. Sorry you’re only just now figuring this out. Meanwhile techies sorted it out 15 years ago.

Late to the party, then. Most people I know went on silent a decade or more ago.

Oh and while we are at it, notifications are for important things I need to know, not for fucking ads. Any app that uses notifications for ads gets deleted.

Yeah, they solved that over a decade ago. Both iOS and Android let you override DnD for contacts and or repeat callers.

Also oxygen…

Really? Everything else was fine but this is a bridge too far?

I assume Derek Lowe wrote about it at some point.

He has a running series on dangerous chemicals.

https://www.science.org/content/author/derek-lowe

Ironically, my overly chatty doctor was ranting about how methadone is a racket and they string people along for years instead of titrating them off. He prescribes Suboxone, apparently.

No, I’m just odd. :D

This is exactly the type of simple equation that always drove me nuts in school. I could take one look at that and my brain fucking just knows the answer. It takes me like 10 times as long to write it down to show my work (not that it is hard here, but my brain does not supply that part by default.) This is why I had to re-take Algebra 2. The way they made us do things just didn’t work for my brain. When it does work, math can be fun, but usually the our teachers taught it made everything super dull. Maybe when my kids get there, they can teach me the new ways.

This is what I do with my Asus AX mesh setup, running a Merlin fork (gnuton).

Pressure cooker. Not electric or anything fancy. Just a simple 6 at pressure cooker. I use it 3-4 times a week.

My background is in enterprise software, so that is obviously different than a desktop tool for individual use, but it informs my opinions.

In general it depends on the use (is it “production” critical, etc) as well as the update and distribution mechanisms.

I have several (mostly for windows) FOSS projects i have stopped using or just rarely update because they require too many steps to update, and/or do so too often.Or they require a reboot. Some of them prompt for an update every time I start them. Feh.

That said, if there isn’t much friction like testing cycles or manual steps to update, I want faster updates.

Most of my self-hosted stuff falls into the category of getting updates via package managers or docker. Those are often seemless and do not require manual steps.

Just two or three, really. One or two actively with the kids and usually just one active on my own.

Weird, this comment ended up on the wrong thread.

And people wonder why journals get polluted with ChatGPT filler.

Lol. AI has so very little to do with this. That’s only mentioned because it’s the latest bogeyman.

Probably the plastic “pan” was a children’s toy that made its way into an alternate use. I probably still have a few lying around from the toddler days.

Its not glass, it’s typically acrylic and doesn’t shatter easily. And no, the machine was typically left unharmed, if bereft.

I know some (genX) people who discovered a neat trick to dislodge all the contents of a vending machine. Involves at least two people and a 2x4. I wouldn’t call what is done “shaking” per se, but you can be sure when the vending machine gets set back down, it feels mighty shaken up. And also empty.

But that would be dangerous, so don’t do it.