I have to have covers, absolutely hate my back being uncovered if nothing else. Some sort of blanket or sheet is essential to get to sleep.

It’s like that Trump watch with the T missing. “I was expecting something with the integrity of the President”. Yeah, you got that.

The Zero 2W is cheaper and pretty much the same spec as the Pi 3.

!lemmings@lemmings.world

Yes, you only know what you’ve experienced. If everything’s blurry, that’s normal.

I know when I got my glasses, the optician said to look across the road with my glasses on. There was a brick wall the other side and I could see it clearly. I was amazed and said as much. I don’t think my sight had always been bad but it must have been bad for long enough for that to be a revelation.

You should be able to use the Compose key on Linux for easy typing of accented characters. eg. Compose ’ e = é

Note that the QL core is already available (although an improved version is in the works), and the C64 core will also be available to KS1 and KS2 machines.

I found this handy snippet to enable these keys in GTK 2 and 3 (not sure of the equivalent for GTK 4 but I guess that’s the one which has been updated anyway): https://forum.colemak.com/topic/1438-dreymars-big-bag-of-keyboard-tricks-linuxxkb-files-included/#p10012

Unfortunately I’ve found this whilst I’m not at the right computer so I haven’t been able to test them.

Edit: I tested this and it doesn’t appear to have helped.

In English I think it was commonly written as “y”. Hence the shops with “ye” on them.

Nope. Some people do care though. I’m more concerned with the interest rate as it makes a big difference to my mortgage.

MacOS should use CUPS - I believe Apple developed it or at least did some major work on it.

Yep, I’ve never needed to ask a question on Stack Overflow as everything I’ve searched for has been answered already… or I’ve looked elsewhere for the answer as I’m not allowed to upvote, downvote or ask questions on it anyway due to lack of karma (or whatever they call it). No wonder it’s in decline if nobody new is allowed to contribute, and every new question is closed as a duplicate.

Yep, SANE is great.

As a non-free alternative, VueScan is pretty good too.

Are we sharing pylons?

Muon.

Does SSH, SFTP and other stuff.

I am old.

This is great! The science teacher who used to also look after all the computers at my school was a big fan of the Acorn Archimedes/RISC PC (quite standard school computers in my day due to the BBC computer literacy stuff, where Acorn won the contract for the BBC Micro). We had a couple of PCs (RM Nimbus) which didn’t get as much use. I believe the plan was to switch over to PCs running Windows (95 had been out a couple of years) and because of that he left. I wonder if there was a viable alternative at that point, such as Linux, that he would have stayed.

A Short Hike is ace!

Florence - it’s short and sweet.

There’s also Free95