Right, but the person I replied to said it was for stress relief [only] - as if to invalidate by omission the original assertion that it’s for controlling fill level.

I pointed out the article supports both positions, and I did that for the benefit of people who might not read the article to see as such, and would otherwise take the comment to mean the article is in complete contradiction to the OP rather than partially contradicting and partially agreeing.

I don’t really have any personal stake or care about who as individuals are right or wrong in this, but I would like to get to the bottom of the milk dimple mystery. On that basis I’m not sure I know the truth even after reading the article, because it seems to be one of those things with a lot of myth behind it and not a lot of definitive sources.

That very same article also does say however:

On top of that, the indentation allows the manufacturer to precisely control the volume that the jug can hold.

Perhaps the most successful attempt at convergence so far has been the Europlug, but only because it’s a weird compromise. Did you know the europlug prongs aren’t actually parallel? They angle inwards slightly and have a little flex, so they can be accepted in multiple European countries’ sockets that actually have slightly different dimensions! It’s a cool design, but you wouldn’t intentionally design it that way if you had the opportunity to standardise the world from scratch.

What happened was centralisation.

We moved from a web made up of lots of tiny websites hosted by individuals, to one of corporate-contolled mainstream social media.

And yes - those sites don’t want any objectionable content because that’s not good for revenue.

It’s censorship, but only made possible because we all collectively decided we would spend our entire Internet browsing time on the same five massive websites, and let them control what we see.

That makes it sound like these startups have no choice in the matter. The funny thing is, you don’t have to sell your company to an enormous evil corporation if you don’t want to.

I backed the original Oculus Rift, and felt massively betrayed when they sold to Meta. :(

For years since I’ve been waiting for A VR solution that plays nice with Linux and is at least somewhat privacy-respecting, and I have been absolutely unwilling to buy a Quest device or anything else. I want to play VR but I’m not willing to sell my soul for it. So it’s been an unhappy but conscious boycott from me.

I too then am super looking forward to the Steam Frame because it’s the device I need to get back into VR and feel happy and excited about it, rather than disgusted.

For me back in the day, the solution was a third-party add-on which patched the Messenger client with a bunch of improvements - one of which was the ability to set a custom alias for a contact. So you could set any name you like and for you, they’d show up as that.

Discord actually has it too, but ONLY for friends, which in my opinion is a massive oversight, but I guess they were worried about the possibility of abuse or something, so there we go.

Back when I was a kid on MSN Messenger, a bunch of my friends had names like this:

☆꧁✬◦°˚°◦. ǟɮɮɨɛ .◦°˚°◦✬꧂☆

I disliked it even then, because it’s not really about personal expression or style, it’s more about wanting to stand out in other people’s contact lists and look the most special and get the most attention.

It’s an arms race that leads to a user list that’s impossible to find anyone in, and when everyone is special then nobody is.

The whole “discard if damaged” is likely just standard cover-your-ass legalese which the lawyers will copy-paste on every single product they sell, including this one.

Drive letters feel obvious from a user perspective, and I presume that’s part of the reason for their invention - each physical disk (or partition) gets a letter, and we’re done! Problem solved.

The Linux paradigm is pretty different in that every device is a file, and files can mount anywhere. (And that really does mean every device, not just disks. Even your mouse is a file and you can read mouse events via the filesystem)

The approach has a huge amount of flexibility. Most obviously, file systems can logically mount anywhere in the directory tree, so you can organise disks and network mounts anywhere you want them and never run out of letters.

It’s a perfectly reasonable pattern for example to want your OS files to be on one partition, and your user home folder where you store your files on another. On Windows that would mean ignoring all the default Documents, Pictures etc folders, trying not to use them (and making sure other apps and programs which like to don’t) and using D:/ for files. On Linux you can mount your storage right in your home folder, and everything still works just as it would if it were a single disk.

I can see why you miss Windows, but the unix-like approach is a powerful abstraction when you’re used to it - just quite different.

Exactly :) The dial-up era was when a lot of people first got online and experienced the Internet, so of course it was an exciting time.

The sound of dial up triggers a nostalgia in some people, but not for dial-up itself - rather for the Internet as it was in that era, an undiscovered country full of possibility. Sure, things took longer to load and that sucked, but at least most of what you were loading was real content, not ads.

A lot of sites were small communities and forums run by the people, for the people. Companies hadn’t yet figured out how to exploit the web. Social media hadn’t been invented yet, and the modern nightmare of service enshittification and subscription paywalls on your kitchen oven were an unimaginable fever dream.

That’s what was better then. Not the dial-up.

Calling it a “car” as well I’m certain pisses him off. Beautiful.

Horny is basically evolution’s way of overriding shyness (and overriding a lot of other logical thoughts) to get the job done.

Marginally less environmentally destructive than the previous version

This always amuses me watching true crime documentaries.

The criminal’s mugshot comes up and they look like absolute shit, and then the guy playing their part in the reenactment is a total looker.

I guess NOT being pretty is a very difficult and unconventional start to a successful career in acting.

This is a defence only until it isn’t - although thank you for the tip.

That’s how Windows has been going for years - adding more and more crap and make it all default enabled, and people are like “Oh just turn it off bro.”

Then every update adds more unwanted options that get increasingly difficult to turn off, or randomly turn themselves back on, and before you know it we’ve reached a point where every new install soon needs an entire checklist to go through to make things actually usable again.

That is not how life should be. I want something that respects me by default, and if it wants me to try a feature I might find even slightly objectional, I should have to explicitly opt-in and say YES.

Firefox is setting a precedent by moving in this direction, and they’ve showed their hand. There’s only more where this came from, and I won’t tolerate it, even if I can turn it off.

When the Firefox terms and conditions drama happened some months back, that was the push I needed to switch to Librewolf. It’s a Firefox fork with privacy-respecting settings out of the gate, no sponsored content, no ads, uBlock pre-installed, and absolutely zero AI. If you’re a Firefox user, I recommend you try it too.

And HDMI port came back. And shitty butterfly keyboard went away. And physical escape key came back. And touchbar went away.

A whole load of mistakes that had to be fixed.

Children’s carols aren’t obliged to make any kind of sense, but I always imagined it as an aristocratic lady with a huge country manor getting lovebombed with outrageous gifts from her suitor, just because he can.

Endless birds is less annoying when you can be like:

claps hands “Sebastian, put these in the dovecote with the others, would you please?”

“Certainly ma’am.”

The one that really stuck with me was COCKFAIS

It’s an office though - not as if one person is sitting on all that RAM.