The Learning Channel changed their name to TLC when they stopped carrying educational content.

Does putting a waterproof label sticker on the top of the disc prevent this sort of decay?

Says who/what?

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead Battle for Wesnoth OpenTTD Doom

And the spec says plaintext usernames should be rendered as links?

I think you ended up in the wrong subthread. Whether they quit or not, stay doctors or not, has no bearing on whether their actions are HIPAA violations.

There’s a HIPAA exception for actions that cause a person’s death. And, wrong as they may be, some of those people actually believe the fetus was a person.

Finding women for whom my appearance isn’t a dealbreaker. I have moderate to serious rosacea and acne on my face. That filters out 90%+ of women before we even speak to each other.

Instant messaging.

20 years ago, there were half a dozen competing major platforms (AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, MSN, etc), like today.

The difference is that you had your choice of half a dozen clients that could each talk to ALL of the platforms. Adium, Trillian, Kopete, etc.

Today’s kids have no idea what we lost to the god of profit.

If you’re at least a 4/10 woman or an 8/10 man, they are pretty effective. For the rest of us, not so much.

Who runs their email servers? You can outsource fediverse server hosting too…

Yes. It’s been disappearing since before I was born in the 80s, and is mostly gone now.

Some day most people are going to understand that “I want to post something visible to everyone in the world EXCEPT these specific people” is not a viable or reasonable or even possible approach to communication, and any attempts to make it work are doomed to failure.

I switched to Arch[-based distros] when I realized I had been getting 90% of my support from the Arch wiki for years

most applications on Linux are design / depend on [GNOME’s] components

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On a film set I would expect anyone in ear protection like that to use the kind with either external sound amplification (mic on the outside, speaker on the inside, so they are headphones) and/or with wireless audio transmission (bluetooth/etc, speaker on the inside, so still headphones)

e.g. https://www.amazon.com/PROHEAR-Electronic-Protection-Bluetooth-Amplification/dp/B07YSM7N97

Since… about a decade ago? Noise cancellation/reduction has been an available feature in earmuffs marketed to firearms users for a while now.

The same way anyone else for whom English is a second or third language function in society.

And, since we don’t own or use any Haier appliances, we aren’t subject to their TOS.

There are a few results, but not the one I’m looking for, and none like it.