Lisp, the language that has them all.

So why not make the washing cycle end when the water has fully drained? I get the impression the timer starts after the drain.

The accounts of space agencies such as NASA and ESA.

Text searches (e.g. page search in browsers) that do return results, but they don't show up anywhere on the screen or aren't highlighted.

That explains why support agents beg for the highest rating.

While I don't downvote posts with emojis I'm most interested in reading tech content, where emojis feel redundant and distracting.

Yes, I replaced Reddit with Lemmy.

Lisp.

It just feels extremely natural to me, so it's difficult to pinpoint specific features I like. But two such features stand out: the parantheses-based syntax and the extreme interactivity.

Blogs. It's amazing how many gems and great content are buried in countless blogs, maintained or abandoned.

Okay. But if a robocaller doesn't lead to results, it may be programmed to give up on unpromising numbers.

Zutty, the Zero-cost Unicode Teletype which the developer describes as "A high-end terminal for low-end systems".

I maintain a list of the tech and creator newsletters I subscribe to.

I actually left Reddit in early 2022, I'm not from the latest migration wave. I left for a combination of these reasons, the first of which is the main one:

• algorithmic feed designed to arise strong emotions, often negative
• snark and noise in the comments
• ads
• impenetrable moderation rules that often make it difficult to figure why a post is rejected, even after carefully reading all the sub's guidelines and FAQs cover to cover, as well as reviewing past threads

Because it's the most effective and powerful tool for putting the Unix philosophy into practice.

I live in a major Italian city, I'm well over fifty, and I've always drunk unfiltered water straight from the tap without boiling. Some Italians apparently don't like the taste of tap water but it's still safe to drink it unfiltered and unboiled in nearly all the country.

I'm aware of those accounts but they aren't official.

Learn to cook (which saves you money) and do all the house chores (including ironing).

Looks nice indeed, thanks.

Possibly saving time and resources.

I love Linux. But I got so exasperated with system updates breaking X-Windows and dropping me into the console with no clue what to do, for some time I intentionally deferred the updates.

I wanted a stable daily driver, so in 2015 I switched from Linux to ChromeOS. Now I'm back to Linux with the Crostini container of ChromeOS and Raspberry Pi OS on a Raspberry Pi 400.

An alternative is to ask questions about features of the pitched product or offer.

Another option is an online IDE such as Replit, which is good enough at least for hobby projects.

Because they realize they can get away with pretty much anything.

Interesting suggestion but possibly overkill.

Yes, to put my money where my mouth is.

In early 2022, a few months prior to the first rumors Elon Musk might acquire Twitter, I left both Twitter and Reddit for the Fediverse, making it a point to contribute a tiny bit of the content and interaction that help platforms reach critical mass.

In case you're wondering, I left Twitter because the algorithms had made me essentially invisible. There was no point posting or interacting there.

I'm curious why. What are the advantages of having an account banned over deleting or abandoning it?

Google Pixel 7 Pro with Google's Android. I've always used Nexus and Pixel phones because on my daily driver I want the stock Android experience with no vendor skins or bloatware, as well as regular system updates and security patches.

Possibly.

These days I write Lisp code using the Medley Interlisp development environment. It's a vintage but amazingly capable environment that's being revived and modernized.

I use Google Play Books but I also like BookFusion.

ChromeOS on an ASUS Chromebox 3, my daily driver.

I guess the app is more of a "why not?" port 😀

VokoscreenNG is a screencasting tool that works with Raspberry Pi OS, I tested it on my Pi 400. And it's also easy to install, just sudo apt install vokoscreen-ng gstreamer1.0-pipewire.

I've updated the post.

Posting to a Usenet newsgroup to inquire about a research paper I was interested in, and having the author snail mail me a printed copy of the paper. The power of community blew my mind.

My first computer was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K in the early 1980s when I was 17. My parents agreed to buy it and I used to device to learn about computers, which I was curious about as I had played a bit with the Apple IIe and the Sinclair ZX-81 of some classmates.

I initially got a Z80-MBC2, a Z80-based SBC that runs CP/M and other operating systems, as I had developed an Intel 8080 cross assembler and wanted to run on actual hardware the code assembled with it. It was so fun I got a V20-MBC, an SBC by the same maker that features a Nec V20 (8088 + 8080) and can run CP/M-86.

Both SBCs led me down a fascinating retrocomputing rabbit hole.

Although it did have an nVidia card, my PC was an otherwise ordinary machine running Ubuntu, not a gaming rig or something custom built.

My favorite is chromeOS because it requires zero maintenance and I can access all my data, apps, and preferences in minutes on any compatible device by just signing into my account.