Feels like another hate-pushing cesspit to avoid.

Now we’re getting there!

Rubber Duck debugging.

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Nice analogy, except you’d check the script before you tried to use it. Computers are really good at crc/hash checking files to verify their integrity, and that’s exactly what a privileged process like antivirus should do with every source of information.

Remember when Word and Excel Autosave did what you expected it to?

Very poor title, like someone’s just got their “Big Book of Clickbait”

Everything is under attack all the time, and everything is never-before-seen until it’s seen.

Same. Even when I have a sub for something I want to watch (like Prime), it’s just easier to let *arr sort it out and tell me when a new episode is ready.

Because it was also the best show of 2023?

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If they do think that - and I absolutely do not claim you are wrong - Then it’s through ignorance. Developers can just as easily distribute compiled binaries for linux as they can for Windows, and even encrypt them if that’s what they want to do.

Because linux itself is free and open, it doesn’t mean you can’t run commercial software on it without it being ripped off. I mean, my work pays many tens of thousands of pounds for commercial software running on Linux, and it’s not just licencing that stops it being spread.

Nah, changing email address is the hardest of services. Gmail has been my main address for about 15 years. Every single online account I have uses it, and that’s in the high hundreds. Maybe if you’d used your own domain with gmail when you started you could hop around some, but not so many people do that.

Don’t think it’s generational. I’ve had a gmail account for about 15 years, and use youtube a lot, and I’m in my 50s. I watch a lot of repair, will it start, restoration and motorbike videos - there’s some amazing content on there, far better than anything available on my tv. And as an educational tool - need to repair something in your home, or change the brakes on your car? Within seconds you have multiple instructional videos of real people actually showing you how to do that exact thing - the world’s never known such a thing.

Same.

The anti-adblock warnings only lasted a few days for me too, not seen them for a couple of weeks now.

Here’s one that annoyed me this week. Juniper - the enterprise router people - require you to have an account to do their training. That’s a web account that won’t let you use more than 20 chars in your password, and won’t let you paste a password.

Not 2fa, I’ll grant you, but it’s from the same bucket of dumb insecure shit that you’re talking about.

It’s something I mean to do, but learning video skills is something I haven’t yet put time to. There’s loads of people on Youtube already who have done exactly that, so whilst I do intend to do a blog piece at some point, I’m not sure it’s good enough to compete with them. (Or rather, my presentation skills aren’t).

But anyway, have a picture. :)

Um, how? I’ve strapped physical electrocal devices and petrol powered motors together. Nothing I’ve done is unique, I hold no IP or copyright and anyone can copy it.

If you mean show others - then sure, I’ve done that!

Well, yes - but only if you don’t cost time and mistakes… (Actually, I don’t, it’s been a lot of fun and I’ve learned heaps)

Amusing to read this as I’m in my 50s and my wife’s in her 60s. Along with almost everyone in the UK we drive manual, and in very narrow and steep lanes like your aunt. Reversing for a long distance when you meet another vehicle is normal - most roads here (Devon) were made from sheep tracks and follow contours. We both also drive larger vehicles like a 3.5 ton horse lorry and big trailers around here. I say it’s amusing because… everyone does it, it’s normal.

As for why - I think it’s because Americans (and maybe Canadians?) always have had cheap oil so have adopted very large engined cars. Automatic gearboxes on small engines like we had, especially before the 80s, are painful - always hunting for the right gear and tend to be uneconomic and high revving. Drive a 1 litre mini automatic from the 1970s and it’s just horrible compared to manual.

Getting fed up strimming our 4 acre, very steep field.

I looked at remote control mowers. At the time they were all well over £6k, so I thought I’d try building one. Well, I’ve done it and it works well, but it’s taken three years and cost over a grand so far in parts.