Should be considered a crime against humanity.

And the DMCA should not apply outside of the USA.

London announced they are converting Big Ben to digital.

I would not worry to much - at the speed our government does things, it will probably take 500 years to do it.

I learned to use a sewing machine about 65 years ago, and was still able to use it last week to shorten some trousers. Yes, I did have lessons at one time, but I can still thread a machine without owning the instruction manual.

I can't thread an overlocker because my sight is too poor, not because I can't figure it out from what it does.

The speedometer is probably digital.

But if you can't read an analogue clock, you are probably too dumb to be let out on your own anyway!

In my family, analogue clocks are used to teach children fractions before they start school - so they know how to divide things up between themselves.

I know kids in America are allowed to use guns for this purpose, but in most of the rest of the world, they are not.

... That all Hadrons are really tiny.

This "Large Hadron" collider must be a gigantic con!

You probably need to dream of walking backwards (across the Irish sea?)

call it a "subway" or put them up on a viaduct and call it an "elevated"

Or, in real English: "Underground" and "Overground". A Subway is for pedestrians (or something you eat).

Somehow the lawyers will get the majority of the settlements.

This is bad news if the Pixels are now eSIM only.

GrapheneOS only supports pixels and many of its users prefer a permissionless SIM.

Maybe they'll add support for some other device, perhaps one of the privacy phones.

ah, I will check out memory hole on some of my systems.

At least on 6.1 you have to be below 50% RAM usage too.

I found this in a RHEL doc that pointed to a kernel README that looked old af but said the same thing.

I have a few systems that run an app on solar during the day at 80% RAM and I had to stop the service before suspend to get it to work.

Yet it worked for a couple months in disk hibernate but then stopped and only memory sleep would work. On a Debian Bookworm stable kernel, so who the heck knows what broke (wasn't me!).

Battery usage overnight is different enough with many machines that I wish hibernate to disk worked reliably.

Anyway if I have 16GB RAM and a 36GB swap it seems bonkers to me that it is by design only working if less than 8GB of RAM is committed.

The subsystem is quite brittle and everybody seems to know.

Most package management systems require us to figure out which card we have, figure out which package supports it, and install that.

Really we wanted "install the package that supports my card".

Apparently this current problem highlights this disconnect when a package no longer does what it used to but the package system blindly updates it anyway.

Being 2025, surely somebody in the past 30 years has floated a meta package management system to handle this mapping? Or an apt plugin? Anybody here know that history?

I mean, we even have nvidia-detect for their cards to do the actual probing work.

Granted arch is rolling and rolling gonna roll, but we can have software that makes this work correctly.

After the mind-blowing success of the windows "are you sure you want to move the mouse?" confirmation dialogs, these people really thought that warning messages do anything? Who is advising these people? Why are they getting paid? Or was their actual contract to provide something with minimal effort that they can use to claim "we're doing something! pinky swear!" ?

This. It's a good indicator, actually. If layoffs include management (the part of a company most prone to accumulating useless overhead) and mostly excludes the departments actually creating the product the company sells, then they might actually be useful.

A major company in my home country just did that. After 20+ years of going down the drain, a new CEO has started the usual layoffs, but this time the first thing she did was cut the board of directors in half. And for the first time in 20+ years I'm thinking "maybe something will actually change for the better".

That is correct. We've been using smileys for 50+ years.

The difference is that smileys convey a bit of emotional add-on to a factual message expressed in proper words. They are the equivalent of a raised eyebrow or a smile - which are also not expressions of specific meanings but context to the words you are saying.