Google Reader was great.
Freely was a bearable alternative.
Now running FreshRSS on my NAS and feel like I'm back on Google Reader.

News, everything from world to local to tech to the sports I care about.
Comics, most of my favorites are available directly or through scrapers.

"a nod to a NASA tradition where the mission commander's suit would have that red stripe to distinguish them from another spacewalker"

I thought the red stripe was for the expendable crewmember...

If you're eating at Wendy's regularly I think the only "surge" you're going to pay for is the one that comes later that day.

Finally supporting an ISO 8601 date format after 10 years of requests?

Are you saying he pulled out too fast?

This is a storm that's been brewing for the entire 30 years i've been an engineering graduate.

The Tech sector, by and large, has never registered with the provincial engineering associations. Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical, Software, etc., I've worked for a string of companies that are full of engineering graduates, all who were hired to work as some kind of Engineer and are doing so and it says so on their business cards. NONE of them claim to be *Professional* Engineers, which until a few years ago was the only protected term (at least, here in BC).

EGBC (Formerly APEGBC) tried many, many ways to get these "scofflaws" to join up, with various campaigns, but never managed to convince people to give them $500/year for a magazine subscription that was mostly about Civil engineers. They managed to finally convince the government to change the Engineers and Geoscientists act to replace "Professional Engineer" with "Engineer" as the protected term. They also brought in Firm registration, whereby companies employing Engineers need to register as Engineering Firms and pay their own registration fees.

By forcing companies to register, and making registration contingent on all of the employed engineers being registered, that shifts the burden of recruitment to the firms themselves... If the company wants to maintain their registration then they have to ensure employees are registered.

How this will all play out in the long term has yet to be seen. COVID killed a lot of momentum in this area, but now that we're coming out the backside I expect a lot of firms are going to be getting letters from the association saying they need to join up and bring their employees with them.

It was a bit on the Heaviside.

Will it run Solidworks yet? That's the last app I need a Windows partition for.

The original uses the same pens. The new one just wipes clean with a damp microfibre cloth, included with each notebook. I used one for four years before buying my reMarkable and it was a great notebook. The reMarkable has completely replaced it though.

Why won't this just lead to a lot of "throwaway" duplicate Facebook accounts? Or was the idea to increase FB user numbers?

They also forgot that the average of 5.2 and 3.5 isn't 4.35, it's 4.85. But they did only say "a number in the middle".

Maybe not. It sounds like a good time to bring things together.

I'm sorry to hear that the society's longevity was abbreviated in this way.

Best purchase I've made in a long time is a Brother MFC-9340CDW. Duplex full-colour printing when I need it, with the bonus of double-sided scanning and copying. I've used the sheet feeder on the scanner more times than I can count, and I never pause to think whether to print in black and white or draft mode... I just print. Two years in on the original toner cartridges and haven't got a low toner message yet.

Inkjets are for people who want to line Epson or HP's pockets with money to pay for dried out ink cartridges.

As someone using an HP Spectre X360 13" laptop (1920x1080 screen) with a 27" Samsung 4K monitor, I can happily say that desktop scaling sucked *ss on Unity and has merely switched to sucking the dog's bollocks under Gnome. Either way, you'll be left with a bad taste in your mouth.

Windows 10 can somehow figure out if i'm using my laptop with a 4k 27" screen, or with a 1600x1200 21" screen (I have the 21" at work). Once logged in, the scaling matches between both screens. It "just works". Ubuntu has *never* done this, on any screen setup i've had.

25 years with Linux, however, and i'm not giving up now...