Golden rule is to never use a computer with the OS that was preloaded. You’ll never know what they put in there.

I used to think that there was a country called Cyclopedia, that was full of all kinds of fascinating things. I had a book all about it called “In Cyclopedia”.

We might say December the 11th as well but that’s definitely the less common of the two.

Where did you get this idea from? In British English 11th of December is more common. I’m open to the idea that American English does it differently and that’s fine but to assert that the entire English speaking world does it like that is incorrect and ignorant.

So you wanna play some basketball?

https://youtu.be/UPv3KV1pIzA

My school in the 90s had to ban watching the Encarta Basketball video. We’re in the UK and don’t really have much of a basketball culture but students flocked to the computer room every day to watch it because of the novelty of seeing a video play on a computer monitor.

I also think I remember the earthquake video, I think Encarta 95 had about 6 videos…

Yahoo is legitimately still a big deal in Japan, I was surprised to find out recently

Yeah, I think it’s a completely different company that owns it now. What’s strange is that it looks a lot more like the 90s Yahoo than it does in the rest of the world.

It’s on Flathub. It’s open source C++ so what ever you can compile it for.

I totally get people saying things like “I couldn’t live with GNOME because it’s difficult to customise” because I used to be that guy. It took a significant shift in my mindset to come back to GNOME (having moved away from it previously when GNOME 3 was first released).

Mr Clegg, who is now the president of global affairs at social media giant Meta,

So, Tory enabler and now Facebook enabler, what a guy.

Out-of-the-box GNOME, with no extensions or tweaks.

I used to be a customise-everything kind of guy. But I’m not naturally efficient, so any workflow I designed for myself would always end up being inefficient. With GNOME I see it as a kind of off-the-shelf workflow that I can adapt to, something I wouldn’t have come up with myself but it makes me more efficient.

To be fair Tokyo (where this is) is pretty cycle and pedestrian friendly in general.

Yeah, I don’t disagree there, as somebody primed on Esperanto, familiar with the -ejo ending, it looks like an Esperanto word to me so my original instinct was to pronounce it in the Esperanto way but with the ‘hard-g’. I guess to be fair they would have more problems if they asked everyone to write ‘ĝ’.

It comes from the Esperanto forĝejo meaning forge (noun, literally a site, ejo, where forging takes place). So soft g, and j as English y. /forˈd͡ʒe.jo/

https://forgejo.org/faq/

Not many names come from Esperanto so that’s interesting. :)

I was Time Person of the Year in 2006.

The thing I like about the original Star Wars trilogy is not that they were great stories, but just that they had really, really good pacing. The characters and scenarios were introduced at just the right rate so that when the big action scenes came around you really cared about them, especially in the first one. That’s also where the later films fell down. I don’t consider myself a huge Star Wars fan, but I would say it’s worth appreciating for the art of it even if you already know the stories.

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I couldn’t care less what they think of us to be honest.

Can my current drives be placed into storage and returned 5 years later, or do they have to be destroyed? That makes a big difference.

First thing would be to seriously look into data compression, and live with heavily lossy-compressed media (my music collection would be ring-fenced though). Throw out backups of physical media (take the chance on disc-rot); I guess any backups wouldn’t be possible in this universe anyway so it will all be left to chance. And then see what’s left.

Is it 100 GB in addition to what I already have saved or 100 GB of total storage? Because if it’s 100 GB of total storage then I wouldn’t be thinking about downloading, I’ll be thinking about what I want to keep.