Also the future of GrapheneOS is very much in doubt now that Google has decided not to release any of the firmware blobs needed to actually run AOSP on pixel phones.

EULA or not, it's still against the law in Europe. But Google will continue to ignore it, and when they get slapped with a fine they'll complain to the king who will threaten European countries with more tariffs until they acquiesce, just like he did to Canada.

I have to admit I was a little surprised to learn diquat is used in a consumer home product. Diquat is a product I use in farming, but I've always considered it to be a bit more dangerous to human health than glyphosate, so I'm very careful to use proper PPE to avoid exposure when mixing and applying.

I guess I can understand why diquat might be useful in a home setting as it wouldn't kill lawns if you sprayed some on a weed in your grass. It's also unlikely to cause herbicide resistance. We use diquat to dry down perennial crops as it does not kill the plant, and is not systemic.

Diquat is also best applied at night. I've never had it work very well when applied during the day, so that's another reason I'm surprised it's in a consumer weed spray.

I've heard of farmers using acetic acid (vinegar) as an alternative to diquat, and it apparently works quite well, but it's quite a bit more dangerous than diquat as it can burn skin and lungs easily, and it's very hard on machines.

The first thing I do on windows 11 is configure the task bar to put the start menu and application icons back over the left. It's stupid to default to the middle like it does but at least you can change it.

You can run explorer.exe from the task manager and that should relaunch the start menu. Just FYI.

Or the book burnings in 1930s Germany by the Nazi party. The historical parallels with 1930s Germany and the fall of the Wiemar Republic are quite striking.

Not everything was actually repair-able in the past either. My beloved HP 48G calculator is starting to have problems after 30 years, but fixing it right is very difficult if not impossible. I think iFixit rated the HP-48 calculators as the worst they'd ever seen for repair-ability. And they've looked at a lot of products over the years. Apple looks good by comparison. Everything is plastic welded shut. If you do manage to open it (I have managed to do this without destroying anything or pealing off the metal front), you have to break every one of the plastic heat stakes. And the keyboard itself is held in by about 20 little heat stakes. For a premium product of the day they sure made the thing as cheap as they could. And that was HP of 30 years ago when they actually built quality printers.

As far as I know recipes aren't copyright-able. Plus most of them are not original creations anyway. They are variations on hundreds-of-years old recipes passed down in families. I have some sympathy for bloggers wanting to make a few pennies from advertising, but there are easier ways to get rich.

Absolutely. I even hate it that people post STLs only on sites like thingiverse. Often I find myself manually recreating the object from the STL just to have a modifiable solid to work with. It's astounding to me how many people use mesh mixers to mixup STLs. I simultaneously cringe and admire them.

Occasionally electronics component makers release STEP files with their data sheets. For things like electrical plugs this is awesome to make sure you really are getting what you think you are. And I've been known to 3D print them in a pinch to make up a quick and dirty connector.

Guess I should have just looked. There are a whole host of add-ons to quickly extract recipes from common recipe sites. I'll have to give it a try!

A hundred times this. I'd have welcomed Google's feature. Maybe there's a firefox add-on to remove the cruft and just show the recipe plus the basic instructions. If I want the cooking channel experience I'll watch the cooking channel.

If it does get made into a movie finally I don't have very high hopes. The entire story revolves around nothing but the thrill of exploration and mystery behind Rama which is left unknown in the book. Fantastic story, fantastic read. A product of the time. Not sure it would make a popular movie though. No doubt they'd have to add pointless interpersonal conflict like they did in the later Rama books, which weren't nearly as good. Also as the explanation behind Rama was revealed in the books, it was kind of a disappointment to me. I remember the first book fondly. The second and third books I hardly remember at all.

When you combine continuing layoffs by profitable companies over the last few years, AI displacing workers, and this beautiful spending bill that cuts services to millions while codifying tax breaks for the 1% and increasing the deficit by 4 trillion, the future looks bright indeed.

They sell access to an online service that lets you mock up and prototype user interfaces, such as a phone or tablet. I assume they can also prototype desktop-type UI layouts. I think they were one of the earliest on-line, web-delivered tools of this type. Now there are quite a few others. And there are even some open source ones.