Yep, I’ve never needed to ask a question on Stack Overflow as everything I’ve searched for has been answered already… or I’ve looked elsewhere for the answer as I’m not allowed to upvote, downvote or ask questions on it anyway due to lack of karma (or whatever they call it). No wonder it’s in decline if nobody new is allowed to contribute, and every new question is closed as a duplicate.

Yep, SANE is great.

As a non-free alternative, VueScan is pretty good too.

Ryanair are awful. I’d rather pay a bit more and not have to put up with their nonsense. They are the lowest of the low.

Muon.

Does SSH, SFTP and other stuff.

I am old.

This is great! The science teacher who used to also look after all the computers at my school was a big fan of the Acorn Archimedes/RISC PC (quite standard school computers in my day due to the BBC computer literacy stuff, where Acorn won the contract for the BBC Micro). We had a couple of PCs (RM Nimbus) which didn’t get as much use. I believe the plan was to switch over to PCs running Windows (95 had been out a couple of years) and because of that he left. I wonder if there was a viable alternative at that point, such as Linux, that he would have stayed.

Aha! I turned the notification volume off, not the ring volume. That works, thank you. Still shouldn’t be necessary but at least I can shut it up now!

Unfortunately that doesn’t help on stock Android.

My workaround is to ask Gemini to take a screenshot. It’s ridiculous but it works.

I just want to take a screenshot without the loudest possible shutter sound which makes it appear that I’m trying to take covert photos.

I mean, surely a toggle to get rid of that nonsense should be easy? I’m sure it never used to happen a few versions ago.

See W. Reginald Bray

There’s also Free95

Yellow Dog in early 2000s, and I think I switched to Debian PPC not long after. My memory of back then is quite hazy. A way while after that I had an Eee PC which I think I put Ubuntu on initially (the desktop was dog slow) and then changed over to LMDE. Have a feeling I had something else on it before Ubuntu… may have been the default Eee distribution, which I forget the name of (think it began with an X).

For the record, that’s exactly what I used to do as a child. It’s only recently-ish that I’ve started eating them upside-down - and that’s mainly to stop getting chocolatey fingers.

Had you been watching Wallace & Gromit?

I’m not sure I believe in past lives, but that sounds very much like the sort of thing which would be used as evidence for you remembering a past life.

I think you’ll find that’s the recommended spec, not the minimum requirements.

My work laptop always complains that it can’t shut down the “Shutting down” app when it tries to shut down.

It supports touchscreen, which works really well, and motion on the controllers - which works very similar to the original on Wii.

I wouldn’t use the analogue sticks, it didn’t even occur to me that was an option. Maybe it’s because it’s a pirate version? Perhaps try supporting indie developers?

PS5 will probably be stuck with using analogue sticks? So that’s likely a miserable experience.

I was going to draw the line somewhere between Europe and Asia 🙂. But some sort of customisation of countries/regions sounds like it might be a better approach.