Back in the "old days" computing power was mainly available on mainframes and miniframes. Applications were built where displays were just forms rendered off terminals. The terminals had some smarts and after each form was filled in the Enter (Submit, etc.) key was pressed so the values were sent to the "real" computer so either the next forms could be rendered or the output could be calculated/printed. This form was rendered in what was typically called block mode. There is no communication with the computer until the Enter key was pressed. Pressing Return would just bring the cursor to the beginning of the line where the cursor was. After the application exits, the terminal was brought back to interactive mode where OS commands could be used completed using the Return key. I guess for these classes of computers, compute was really scarce and the use of block mode allowed people to use the computer with minimal sluggishness.

The WWW did the same thing when the first sites used Submit buttons.

When I first worked on an HP3000 I was asked to do some stuff in an application on an HP 2645A terminal. I was told what to do and I just kinda assumed "then press the Enter key" meant pressing the Return key. After a while later I went for help and I was told I pressed the wrong key.

The HP3000 with terminals weren't anything like my Apple II. The default editor was a line editor like UNIX's ed. There was a 3rd-party editor that kinda worked like vi but still clunky compared to my Apple II/UNIX vi because it made use of block mode.

Microsoft being Microslop. If their Azure platform is run like what this post claims, considering MS makes more revenue from their cloud offerings, it's no surprise their OS is maintained like shit.

https://isolveproblems.substac...

I hate it because I have a dangerous intersection at the end pf my street. Great visibility one way, terrible the other way. But that’s the way I”m going 99% of the time. City won’t fix the light that warned of approaching traffic. So when I go, I need to go right then, not in a half second or so in case someone comes flying over the hill. There’s a button to turn it off, but you have to use it at every start. I could go the other way, but then that’s a half-mile detour through another neighborhood to turn around, so it’s defeating the purpose. In traffic, I don’t care either way, and I don’t know enough about the engineering to talk about wear effects, but as a practical matter it is very annoying in a pure ICE vehicle. Niche case, I know, but there are some good reasons to dislike them.

I, Steve Wozniak, did not participate in the theft of the BASIC. It was funny to me to see others enjoying doing this. I had never used BASIC myself, at that time, only the more-scientific languages like Fortran, Algol, and PL-1, and several assembly languages. I sniffed the air and sensed that you needed BASIC to sell computers into homes, because of the book 101 Games in BASIC. I loved games and saw games as the key. It was the [MS] BASIC that inspired me to write a BASIC interpreter for my 6502 processor, in order to have a more useful computer.

Though itâ(TM)s not always correct. I got a garage door remote that, yeah, works without their cloud stuff, but you canâ(TM)t modify several parameters like open/close detection delay with the open source side. Not that itâ(TM)s a big deal; you can sign up for their account using a throwaway email address and never use it again.

It's hard to find people with Tim Berners-Lee's integrity. We should 'own' our own lives. It's a lot deeper than just being watched.

This CVE is discussed in detail by this YTer. He's a Rust proponent but very open about its limitations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

If you're talking about Volla phones I can't say. More info about banking apps on SailfishOS is here: https://forum.sailfishos.org/t...

No it's not. It's a separate company that once used SailfishOS in their phones.

"Jolla" is a Finnish word meaning dingy. In English you would write the sound of the "j" with an "y". Double L is just a long L"

If you can get IPv6; my ISP doesn’t support it.

And for slightly more money you can get one that can control up to three garage doors and includes two magnetic sensors to detect open/closed state. They have their own app for the tech-scared but you don’t need to use it; it’s fine with HomeKit, and Home Assistant can control HomeKit devices.

BYD, at least, have a reasonable footprint in Mexico (taken several Uber rides there in BYD’s).And unless you’re already in the western US, Mexico City is as close as LA or closer - and that’s one of the farther-south places in the country. The one driver I asked about his was very happy with the car, and it certainly seemed nice enough. Not a luxury car, but comfortable and spacious.

I want to migrate my dad from Windows to Linux but when I tried it 6 months ago using Ubuntu I couldn't drag a webpage icon to the desktop using Firefox reliably through its LiveCD.

Is this possible on Linux Mint using Firefox and Chromium? The behavior must be consistent between browsers in case he uses one or another. My dad relies on this functionality and typing commands into a CLI won't be convenient for him.

I have struggled with how best to approach my variant of the problem - I don’t switch phones regularly, but I do carry a spare on international trips where they don’t have Verizon stores. I would have to find WiFi to provision the backup phone with the Verizon app.