Or do a little more research and find somewhere that the infrastructure was so trashed by war or natural disaster that some records are completely gone. Happened a lot in WWII, and it must have happened in other places since.

Three meetings, mostly informal, this time.

We could turn that into a drinking game.

The greatest sin in anime is the texture of clothing. This is most obvious in the Count of Monte Cristo anime due to the art style.

Gankutsuo, if that’s the one you’re talking about, was also a very early (possibly the first) use of the technique. I can forgive a pioneering show for getting things wrong. Its successors aren’t always as easy to forgive.

Much worse than messed-up clothing textures is the occasional show that puts a texture over the entire picture (the most blatant example I’ve ever seen used a watercolour paper type one, but damned if I can remember the name of the show), but binds it to the viewport rather than the background, so that when the camera pans or zooms, the texture moves with it and completely destroys the impression I think they were aiming for.

Ugh, the main character being honest wouldn’t be a problem if she weren’t also trusting and naïve to the point of ridiculousness. This may end up being my third drop of the season.

If you use Windows, you agreed to the TOS.

If your employer is forcing it on you, chances are you never even saw the TOS.

It’s a decades-old name. I believe the original idea was that the party would be socially progressive and fiscally conservative. The combination doesn’t seem to work very well, though, because the two often pull in opposite directions, and when they do, it’s always the “socially progressive” part that seems to get thrown under the bus.

There is one other possibility. Poilievre has been an asshole to at least one other Conservative MP. Perhaps he did something to her behind the scenes that she decided she wasn’t going to tolerate, and she crossed the floor as a form of revenge.

Either way, I doubt we’re ever going to find out exactly what the carrot and/or stick was.

I didn’t think this season was going to produce anything more batshit than Niwatori Fighter. Evidently I was wrong . . .

Calling Israel’s official military a terrorist organization is right on the edge of saying they’re not a state at all, and that isn’t going to happen no matter how justified it is. After-the-fact war crimes trials are at least realistically possible, even if far from ideal.

I suspect this is one of those cases where something that looks like a simple solution to a moral dilemma actually opens up a big can of worms. I believe the current way of thinking is that we don’t have any say over who another country allows to serve in their military. So a citizen who is eligible to join a foreign military just has to jump through the expected bureacratic hoops at the Canadian end for a long stay abroad.

We’d either have to bar all foreign military service by Canadians (which will cause some dual citizens to lose their foreign citizenship through no fault of their own), or somehow put Israel in a special category, which I don’t see happening.

It might be possible to have people who have served in the IDF arrested and tried for war crimes upon return to Canada, but it would require some work to make the charges stick.

Best way to figure out which one you’re happiest with is to try them out yourself, or look at an existing comparison list. Or else pare things down to a more specific question, because I doubt anyone is going to do a lengthy comparison here.

I’m recovering from a bout of bronchitis, but maybe this weekend I’ll be in good enough shape to wear my dust mask for long enough to finish up the shooting board I need to help straighten the 1x2s for the next shop furniture project. (The longer-term project of curing my miserliness so that I don’t feel obliged to straighten cheap lumber that’s bowed instead of buying new is . . . a work in progress.)

I think this community is doing okay. Could use a few more posters, but that’s the kind of thing that will only come with time.

Perhaps of interest to other posters here: Humble Bundle currently has a bundle of woodworking ebooks from Taunton Press available. I have paper copies of a couple from this lot already, and they’re pretty good.

And the moral of the story is: always be careful to put proper signage on your clam. 🤣

Depends on what you’re doing. If you’re okay with very limited Web use, even 2GB is viable (or was about a year ago when I retired that machine). More normal levels of Web use, you’re going to need more RAM. Not sure about GPU-constrained loads like 3D modeling, as I never tried them on that machine. But other than those and some games, nothing on Linux should require even 8GB. Server systems can make do with even less.

Or, you could just use Gentoo, which offers you an even wider array of possibilities for getting into trouble on the command line.

Easier ≠ better. Granted, most amateur-written UIs aren’t that great, but I find anything created specifically for the web is almost always worse. They’re massively bloated, they reinvent wheels all the time (and ship them out while they’re still egg-shaped with off-centre axles), and they don’t adapt well to systems with non-default settings.

As for Java UI coding, well, I did enough of it, back in the day. Tedious, sometimes nitpicky, but far from the worst thing I’ve ever done, codewise.

There are other options for that, though, and I’d rather have Java, with all its issues, any day.

I think it’s more “people who trained only in web development can produce what they fondly think is a desktop application”.

Exactly. Justice is not fast food. It takes more than a few weeks or even months to go through the steps.

Still using Aqualung. However, my only requirements for a player are that it handle local files, handle m3u playlists, and not try to force a “music library” system on me (Aqualung offers it as an option only, which I’ve been ignoring for something like a decade and a half).

The TDE version of amarok still has vizualizer support. Not sure how it is on modern streaming, though.