What do you hope to gain from visiting?

There was a black female 007 in the last film you dimwit. She was bloody good too. I’d be happy for her to be the next bond, but she won’t be.

Nonce Andrew. Definitely.

/r/hailcorporate was underestimating it if anything.

Nope, not just you. You don’t have to assume that the food they eat would otherwise be destined for the starving to think they are an obscene demonstration of first world excess.

Just look at this dullard’s posting history. Block and move on.

One of the examples of its brilliance is how he found a site he visited yesterday by typing in a question for the AI rather than pressing CTRL-H. I guess it is designed for people who type “Google” into the search bar of their browser and then double click on the link.

The Express is not a reliable source for information. It’s a shitty right-wing rag that just makes shit up.

What is the “A” in “AITM”?

I wrote it for a friend’s company, and I don’t think he ever did anything much with it. I don’t remember the exact details, but it was something like this for 200 pages:

<1 - 100> [101 - 110] 111 … 120 [121 - 131] <131 - 200>

Basically 3 levels of page selection, where you can pick one in a range of 10, skip forward or back by 10 or go to a new section of pages. It was something like that anyway. The total number of pages defined the ranges. It was all very clever and worked well for moving around large numbers of pages.

I invented a pagination system for web pages that allowed easy navigation with only a few clicks to get to the page you want, whether it was 3 pages or 3000 pages.

I’m really surprised no one else has invented it because it was so much better than anything else I’ve seen.

Yes, I do see your point. I think part of the problem is that old farts like myself started with it 3 decades ago, when it really was only for the ultra-nerds. It really was something only enthusiasts would ever consider using, and totally unsuitable for “normal” people. The change into something that can be used by everyone has been slow, but relentless. At some point it will be something that everyone can use, but I really don’t think it’s there yet. Every year as accessibility improves it moves into the reach of more people, but at the moment you do still need to invest time in converting to it from Windows.

Which brings me to another point - Linux is not a Free version of Windows. A lot of people seem to think that it should be like Windows, but gnarly old nerds like me like it precisely because it is very different from Windows. This is both its weakness and its strength. I like it because there is less hand-holding than with Windows, but most people probably don’t want to use an OS that you can essentially brick with one command on the command line. To me it’s power, but to most (normal) people it’s danger. There has to be a trade-off between complete control of your PC to the point where you can destroy it, and your PC telling you what you can and can’t do to the extent that Windows does.

I think at some point there will be a distribution that manages to get a balance of freedom and hand-holding that a majority of people find accceptable, but at the moment you do have to put effort and time into not only learning new things, but changing the way you see your PC. If someone complains that it isn’t easy enough, the only solution at present is for them to not use it. Is it a good situation? No, but that’s the way it is.

I don’t really know what else to say. Linux is what it is. It isn’t perfect, but then again what is? Some people like it, some people don’t. No one is forcing anyone to use it, so use it or ignore it. It will always need more effort on the part of the user to get going with it, but some people find this rewarding. Some don’t, in which case it’s not for them. Accessibility is a real problem, and one which people are working on, but there is no end game with Linux - no inherent need to be used and loved by everyone. It is already far better than it used to be in terms of accessability and it will only get better, but in the meantime, it’s not for everyone.

Linux is not for everyone. If you don’t like it, don’t use it. The terminal is used so much because it’s often the quickest way of doing things - instructions in WIndows are like “click on that icon, scroll down to this and choose that, then select that tab…” but with a terminal it’s like “copy and paste this into a terminal”. It’s a powerful and useful tool. There are distros like Ubuntu which try to avoid doing terminally stuff, but it’s just so useful it’s difficult not to use it.

deteled.

It started calling itself MechaHitler after the first pass, so I’d be interested to see how less woke it could get training itself on that.

Then there are the ones who have an easy baby, wonder what all the fuss is about, and then have a second which is a nightmare. Actual quote from friends of ours who had it that way round - “I understand what you were on about now.”

This is the correct answer. Specifically NFC contactless. If there was a watch that could do that without needing a phone, I would definitely put in the effort to get a Linux phone.

So it’s magic. Gotcha.

Like Brazil.