Wasn’t being critical at all. Not expecting you to write for anyone.

I wondered what this actually provides. If you were explaining to someone with a good knowledge of the world, not grandma!!

Thanks fella. What do they actually do? Elevator pitch stylie!

Excuse the ignorance, what am I actually reading about here?

I read the first few paragraphs and an out of my league.

What are ‘we’ trying to achieve?

Yes. I’m British.

Having grown up with Acorn Atoms. BBC Micro, MS and DRDOS, Gem, Xerox something, Windows 1, don’t remember 2, 3.0 to 3.11, NT. I didn’t realise how nice early (2004) Linux was until I used it in a Windows server hosted VM to handle my phone calls (VoIP@home or something it was called).

I did everything I could to ditch Windows after that. The webification of QuickBooks was the final release.

I agree. I used it to move my vocab on enormously.

Thank-you. Thought so but wasn’t sure.

Does prevent side-loading effectively cause problems for open source F-Droid? Apologies for ignorance.

Foot in mouth*

This got me wondering about lionising Go in films. I think I need to start a such a movement amongst directors or screen writers.

I’m hilariously bad at chess. I learned the fools gambit and never progressed.

Oh ok.

I haven’t been to a circus recently. My knowledge in that area is wanting, I’ll admit. 😳

All good!

The irony of using ‘Z’ in the title.

It’s our language; you broke it.

Cars younger than last century have two modes of indicator available.

[ BMW, Merc and Audi drivers: nothing to see here. Not in this whole post and comments. ]

A soft push in either direction gives a brief - I don’t know what the definition/legal requirement is - period where the indicator flashes before cancelling itself.

A harder push has the indicator stay in that position until the steering wheel or the driver cancels it and it stops.

Maybe you’re complaining about people using the soft mode.

In my country, there is no requirement to indicate when moving back to your lane after moving into the/a overtaking lane. I think that’s a little weird tbh. I’ve always indicated, wherever I’m going, on the basis that when I don’t, someone will sideswipe me through my own negligence.

Of course, these days the sodding lane-change Nazi in my car won’t let me pass any line, but happily forcefully steers me into the hedgerow/ditches on country lanes where there are no road markings. You can turn it off every time but not generally.

Hell, I remember a time people just said “um”, “er” quietly and paused between words when they hadn’t thought the thought through.

Instead now they use ‘like’ as a space between words whilst the processing is still taking place.

It gets real confusing when what they’re explaining is the concept of similes.

Given the electronic searching of your electronic gadgets (phone etc) that they can/will do before you get in, I think I’ve made my lifetime’s visits to the US already.

I really wanted to see the Midwest. There was a good person who piqued my interest further talking to me about it here recently.

Well said.

The man fundamentally opposed to privacy, but no idea what he is for, will allow Scotland to be independent and out of his absolute micro-managing control?

You’re having a giraffe, but can we have the oil?

I do like this man’s musings. This is one I actually understood.

At this point, I just see it as a Microsoft/Meta style move: buy, absorb, destroy. Use as tax loss.

Maybe Elon doesn’t like football.