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Fastmail has undo send. https://www.fastmail.com/help/send/undosend.html

I wish there had been a link or reference to a more in-depth history, since this article is quite short and skips over any early stuff. I've been weirdly interested in door knobs and handles ever since I moved into an older (110 years) house and tried to find a matching door knob for one that was weirdly missing (got lucky due to its distinctive fleur-de-lis motif and knowing their age).

Tangentially, this reminded me of a nice automotive door handle taxonomy I came across recently: https://jalopnik.com/this-is-the-definitive-classification-g...

You can now select any emoji for a reaction in the version that was just released (at least on Android).

Maybe there's some extension to fix this now, but I always hated how GNOME's workspaces were just small boxes on the opposite side of the overview button/hot corner. And even more so that they were a row, not a grid. KDE's exposé-like grid that separates all the windows on all the workspaces is so much more useful to me (not sure if that's enabled by default though).

You can get pretty close to emulating Unity's interface with Plasma, especially if you use Latte-dock. But there are still certain things that can't be done; the biggest to me is having the menu bar (File, Edit, etc.) in the title bar of all the windows (a global menu at the top works though). You can get a button that then gives you those options, which is close but an extra click.

Please stop pretending like these people are egotistical and narcissistic when they simply don't have any other choice.

I think some of the contention here is that you believe those protesting the restrictions are the same as those who are most hurt by them. But I don't think most people here are upset that people who have no safe place to go, don't have money to buy necessities, etc. in the best of times, are facing terrible difficulties and are upset.

Maybe it's different elsewhere, but at least in my own state (Michigan), protesters seem to be people who are frustrated that they can't go about their daily life as usual. They tend to better off than many and can do things like drive to Lansing to protest, with the most vocal yelling about how they need haircuts, not being able to keep their lawns in perfect condition, and how they can't go to their cabins up north. And plenty still believe this is all just a big conspiracy and government power grab (tons at the protests didn't wear masks or socially distance at all).

People in my city (Detroit) are getting hit the hardest in the state, partially due to poverty (and race, but around here the two are inextricable). It's not those working-class people who are protesting: they're too busy just trying to survive and stay as safe as they can.

LCDs around the gauge cluster seem to encourage the display of extraneous information and eye candy, from making what should be a simple gauge extra gaudy and shiny, to adding useless images and readings all around (look at these leaves! Your car is so efficient!).

My friend had an old Saab with the "Black Panel" button, which turned off all internal lights save the speedometer. If other readings became relevant (e.g., running low on gas), that gauge or light would illuminate. I drove a Peugeot 208 a few years ago with a similar function. I wish I could find a vehicle with something similar, but design is clearly moving in the opposite direction.

What? The U.S. invaded Afghanistan first, in 2001. Iraq came in 2003.

My build (just downloaded as a fresh install) is #20351804. Add-ons are a menu option now, with UBlock Origin as the only recommended one. Actually, it might be the only one available at the moment?

Been waiting for uBlock Origin support for some time. I'm really glad the developers decided to support it! UBlock Origin seems to be the only suggested add-on in a fresh install. Just tested it briefly, and it seems to work great.

I often see this sentiment here. And part of me, of course, agrees.

Of course, it would also mean the total upheaval of human society. Not just in terms of our environment and physical space, but all of our customs and culture. What's the point of any rite of passage if the group you enter is ever-expanding, never diminishing?

How would we even look back at what we've done, our own past, and have it matter if our future is essentially infinite? Death provides us with a context to make our lives meaningful. I cannot for the life of me even begin to imagine the sort of society that would emerge if humans didn't die.

Which crippled the console, because you couldn't play games online without updating. And if that wasn't bad enough, soon after you couldn't even play new games offline. I used my PS3 as a backup computer when I was at school (came in handy when my laptop died), so I didn't update it. When I bought Dark Souls, I found out I couldn't play it.

Doesn't it depend on the screen and user preference though? On my old Thinkpad's screen grayscale antialiasing looks awful (fuzzier and harder to read), to the point where I've filled bugs when some aspect of a program's UI doesn't obey my system settings.

Ubuntu gets Firefox updates within a day or two of release. It's been like that for years.

I can't remember if Nog was addressed directly, but in the recent DS9 documentary Ronald D. Moore (one of the show's writers who later went on the make the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica) commented that there were several minor characters that the writers really liked and, therefore, kept thinking of new stories for them. That actors like Eisenberg portrayed the characters and imbued their roles, especially at first, with such personality definitely resulted in the writers bringing them back and giving them interesting arcs.

The most blatant example of this was Jeffery Combs and his portrayal of Weyoun, a character who died at the end of the episode where he was introduced. They then invented the backstory of his race being all clones just so they could bring him back.

He was definitely one of the actors that made Deep Space Nine's world so compelling, despite not being one of the main cast. All the more true since he had to add depth to a race, the Ferengi, who before the series were totally one-note.

The recently released DS9 documentary, What We Left Behind (which is great) has some interesting bits with Aron, notably on the reactions to the episode (It's Only a Paper Moon) where Nog had to deal with the psychological impact of being wounded in combat. He was wounded in a previous episode, so the follow up was very un-Star Trek in that it didn't portray everything as being perfect right after. Apparently it hit home for a lot of veterans. He did a great job in the role.

R.I.P.

I use fingerprint unlocking with andOTP just fine (for a while now too). Not sure why it wouldn't work for you.

Huh, interesting. I have two T420s laptops (i7s with dedicated GPUs), and have a friend with one too (i5 integrated). None of them has those issues, but we all run Ubuntu. One of mine did have fan issues once, but it was due to the fan itself going bad, and once replaced it was fine.

CDs are just... awful. Nice booklets? You mean small booklets with tiny pictures and even tinier text. And they come in what I consider one of the most horrible containers of all time: the ugly and easily-broken jewel case.

Like vinyl, CDs can be scratched, but they sure don't degrade gracefully: the nice pops of vinyl becomes jarring skips on a CD up to the point where the CD just becomes unplayable.

Nowadays I have all my music on my computer, as files on the drive or from a stream. But when it comes to wanting something physical, something I can hold and look at (from the cover and extra material that comes with an LP to the wonderful spinning of a record as the sound emerges), vinyl easily wins.

But maybe I'm weird, because even in the mid '90s as a teenager I thought vinyl looked cool and was fun and fascinating to interact with. I hated CDs and their cases so much I even converted all my CDs to minidisc! Happily I kept them around until I ripped them to FLAC files.

It really depends on the local laws for declaring historic districts. Much of the time it can be a long process, with lots of community meetings, revisions, etc. (On the national level, you need the property owner's consent to get listed on the on the National Register of Historic Places.) I imagine in some cases the process has already started and the new owner might not know about it, especially if you are talking about short periods of 90 days. And if a community is united against their area being listed, it can fail. But, again, it all depends on the local situation, and if a majority living there want things to go one way, then a lone owner can be screwed out of doing what they wanted.

I've used Firefox with Ubuntu for over a decade and have never had any issues with the fonts the OP mentions. Maybe it's a problem with some other distros, but I thought Firefox followed your system's settings regardless.

Chromium, on the other hand, has never fully obeyed the default font settings. Even messing with the flags there are plenty of times the font hinting would be different on certain sites than what I've set it too (e.g. grayscale instead of RGB). Never got into troubleshooting it too much though, since I don't use it as my default.

What do you mean that it's impossible to turn off the long-home-button press behavior? I've always hated long-pressing home by mistake, so I always prevent it from doing anything at all. Maybe it's because I use a different home app though.

And even before that there were just random land masses on the blue ball, clearly not earth.

The Video Background Play Fix extension for Firefox for Android works well too.

Those were neat. There was an input on it too, so you could hook up other devices to it.

I actually beat Mega Man on the NES... using a Game Gear with the TV Tuner as the screen.

It will not run Signal, unfortunately. There doesn't seem to be the resources or will to do a port yet.

https://community.signalusers.org/t/signal-support-in-librem...

What English dictionary are you using? Using LibreOffice (US English) with no custom words, 10 of the words on your list appear as correctly spelled (amongst, another's, conception, depersonalization, else’s, experientially, pathologies, tangly, unimpassioned, and unmoving).

But in general I do have problems with this, and I've added hundreds of words to my custom dictionary.

Hmm, that's odd. I very recently had to cycle through using four different phones (one was dying, two ended up being defective, finally got a decent one), and each time I successfully transferred all my messages to the next. I thought that just transferred your messages though, not your keys (I could be wrong there).

But it is a bit silly that you need to manually move the file from the old phone/backup location to the new one without some in-app option to do so.

It's open source as of last year. https://github.com/ghostery/ghostery-extension

If you don't need something new for performance reasons, I agree.

Just replaced the motherboard of my T420s. While waiting for the part to arrive I used a much newer laptop, which only made me appreciate just how great that beautiful old 7-row keyboard is. I suppose I'll have to give it up one day, but not yet.