I know a lot of people who went to see Avatar, I don’t know a soul who went to see the second one.

And how many people in the world will use that? eight?

If all I’m doing is looking at your catalog, it should work in a mobile browser. That way if I - a Tarheel - find myself in the midwest, I can go “does Menards have 1/4-20 hanger bolts?”

I’ll install an app if it runs mainly on my phone, like a media player or a calculator or maybe even a file viewer. Mobile games…that ship has sunk, frankly.

Require Microsoft to distribute competing browsers in the Microsoft store.

I can install Firefox, Chromium etc. from my distro’s package manager. I don’t open a web browser to install software. You still do that on Windows because Microsoft has a financial incentive to keep competitors out of their store, so their store sucks.

Toilets are effective at pushing shit, piss and vomit into the sewer while preventing sewer gases from entering your home, and they also double as chairs when not in excremental use. You can also use a toilet to repair the mental defects of a billionaire if you drop it from high enough, I don’t think toilet paper functions in that way.

I like my coffee FrEsH.

That’s a tough one because I’m currently surrounded by computers and tools. I’m within reach of my smart phone, one of my laptops, I’m typing this on my desktop PC, I’m within reach of three multitools, a power drill, and my away mission tool bag. So I think I’ll give a cop out answer and go with “The several thousand liters of air filling the room.”

See, if you’re in the room I think you’re in, I think I would vote for the toilet.

Satisfactory can be downright gorgeous, and it’s a test of the hardware. I saw elsewhere in the thread your specs are a Ryzen 7700x, 32GB of RAM and a Radeon 7700xt. I have a similar built, but with a 7900GRE instead, I run Fedora KDE on this box. I’d be interested in comparing notes.

The switch to UHF is also a factor. Compared to VHF, UHF is much more susceptible to blockage by things like leaves. I live in a forest, and 70cm is basically useless while 2m is unaffected and I can work the nation on 6m.

So’s coffee what’s your point?

Edgar Allen Poe’s short story The Cask of Amontillado. Flippant internet synopsis: A guy builds a wall and his friend pays for it.

As is Abiword, which is a bit more of a direct comparison.

It’s a reference to an entry in the webcomic series Ctrl+Alt+Del. The female lead has suffered a miscarriage, and this particular entry in the comic, titled Loss, depicts her boyfriend’s journey through the hospital, entering the front door alone, talking to the receptionist, talking to the doctor, then standing at her bedside.

Ctrl+Alt+Del competes (competed?) with Penny Arcade, it’s normally a lighthearted junk food entertainment kind of webcomic aimed at a gamer audience, that SUDDENLY slammed into very heavy material, and then SUDDENLY slammed back out of it. The comic became very widely mocked for the tone whiplash, and one notable form of mockery was making increasingly minimalistic representations of it, often with a “you just lost the game” kind of intention, ie how minimalistic can you go while still reminding others of the comic. A common depiction might be I Ii II I_ (one man standing, a man standing and a woman sitting, so she’s shorter, two men standing at equal height, and then a man standing and a woman lying down) but now :.|:; is even more condensed while maintaining the four panel arrangement.

This is a meme from 2008; it’s been going around awhile. So to those who have been long familiar with the meme that graphic kind of works like a hieroglyph or kanji character; it’s a very simplified depiction of something that carries a sound/concept. You kind of read it as the word “Loss.”

Microsoft’s business model has often gotten in the way of anything they do making sense.

I think everyone should do what I did and stop enjoying such things. Kill the media by not watching ads, not buying movie tickets, not paying subscriptions. Cut them out of society entirely.

Connected through every single coax connector made by man.

You know the most masculine activity I can think of? Going to the beach and digging a hole in the sand.

Having been a ten year old that got extra mozzarella sticks, I’m pretty sure what I heard was the opening fanfare to Sell Out by Reel Big Fish. High energy, lots of horns.

gun violence isn’t an engineering problem. miniblind cords are.