qupada

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[–] qupada@fedia.io 43 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I don't want to get into a text editor war - because these are all good options - but it's definitely also worth giving the "Kate" editor from KDE a go, it's available as a native Windows app from the MS store and everything:

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NWMW7BB59HW

I personally find it considerably nicer to use than Notepad++, and it means I don't have to give up 25 years of muscle memory for keyboard shortcuts when I have to switch to a windows machine.

Also some crazy how, it uses less RAM than Notepad‽ (With no files open, 61 vs 71MB) Not sure what Microsoft are up to, but it's definitely something strange.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 19 points 3 months ago

I made this joke to people who work for AMD. I was a bit shocked that it hadn't occurred to them :D

[–] qupada@fedia.io 4 points 3 months ago

Oh yeah, great purple colour when baked or fried.

Boiled, not so much ;)

[–] qupada@fedia.io 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The potatoes never stay as purple as you'd like.

We have these in NZ: https://www.tepapa.govt.nz/discover-collections/read-watch-play/maori/maori-potatoes (last image on the page).

They start out the bright royal purple in the image, but by the end of boiling they turn a blueish-grey colour, and the water will be a delightful maroon-crimson shade.

If you want it to look like you've blended up Barney the Dinosaur, you're going to be colouring them.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 2 points 3 months ago

I have a bunch of driver bits for these, but never knew what they were called.

I don't think I've ever encountered a matching screw in the wild though.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Funny how if you don't cram 10,000 chickens into tiny cages all stacked on top of one another...

[–] qupada@fedia.io 1 points 4 months ago

My general advice to people when shopping for used printers is if it's new enough to have a colour LCD, it's too new. Ones like this with a 2x 16 character display are predominantly safe.

This rule holds for more manufacturers than you might expect.

For my sins, I did end up with an HP. But it's a 2012 model (my specific one was built in 2017 however), well predating HP's bullshit. It's a colour A3 laser with Ethernet and automatic duplex, so I'm happy enough with it.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 3 points 4 months ago

More importantly, how much butter are we going to have to steal to make enough hollandaise sauce?

[–] qupada@fedia.io 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That wasn't my point, even remotely.

It was rather that they likely can't just ignore this bullshit and carry on doing the right thing, no matter how much they should.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 8 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Sadly, as a traded company they would appear to have to at least respond to a "but but but muh shareholders!" argument, no matter the source (or how pathetic it is).

It's not that they seemingly can't (rightly) tell them to piss off, but it probably has to be done a lot more carefully.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 3 points 4 months ago

Here's a previous post with a video of one in use: https://sopuli.xyz/post/18922497

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