Notices by Thomas (tfb@functional.cafe), page 4

@kaia This is the highlight of my day!

@clacke A UK pint is 20 oz yeah. A US pint is 16 oz, to mirror the 16oz to a pound. Also the size of their oz differ :blobcatdizzy:

@clacke I'm gonna start selling lemon-flavored iced tea, call it Mister Gray

@clacke EurKey looks interesting, but yuck to the ANSI physical layout. And it's definitely very germanic in its choice/position of the precomposed accented letters. Which obviously isn't bad per se, but is also not going to ingratiate itself to Southern Europe

@valhalla @hypolite

@hypolite @clacke A situation that antedates computers. There's a long history of intellectuals complaining that majuscule letters should be accented too, and French people collectively ignoring them, except sometimes not.

@clacke all caps makes a difference though; très cool and TRES COOL are both acceptable spellings (-;

@clacke @borup Or Babylon Berlin, there's quite a bit of it by now!

@clacke > Yin Hua Xiang

Nice try, Tea Association marketers, but I've never actually seen it sold under that name. That one of the better teas that exists is named Ya Shi Xiang is also undoubtedly part of its appeal 😹

@clacke @loke Weird, because we're using O365 at work now ... perhaps my use of Evolution screws it up

@loke @clacke As the frequent recipient of "Lorraine Ipsum would like to recall the message..." emails, I don't think it works as well as its users believe it does

@loke @clacke Oh! Since I see both deleted emails and "recalls" from the same people, I'd assumed they were the same feature, and it just did the dumb recall thing if it couldn't delete the mail on the server

What I hadn't considered is that they're two different features, and probably the users are confused as to which they're using

@clacke Oh lucky you, you get to see both for the first time!

@clacke > "maple-flavored syrup"

moderately offensive

"maple-flavoured syrup"

properly upsetting to Canadians

@clacke I buy used notebooks , but if I were to buy a new one, I'd either get something that ships with Fedora or Debian (so you know the drivers are all upstream) or from a Linux-only vendor like Tuxedo

@mcc

@clacke My head-math is each 100 HKD is 12€, which is also pretty easy to keep in mind. But as a semi-regular buyer of tea from HK, I need a better heuristic than 10-to-1 (-;

@Coffee So were mine, but then I relearned how to type after a near-miss with RSI, so my programs are all carefully typed

@bkhl @clacke And to be clear, I think CentOS Stream is a great project, and is the correct choice for most conservative uses. It's usually a better choice than RHEL.

But if you're in one of the situations where RHEL or SLES are good fits for your needs, you'd need either a perfect rebuild, or something that is similarly certified and tracked.

@bkhl @clacke It depends on what sort of compatibility you're after. Are you looking for binaries that link and run? Are you looking for a stable, slow moving "enterprise" platform? Then it's perfectly fine!

There can be bugs. I've found bugs running software on CentOS Stream, which sure enough showed up in the next RHEL point release.

If you're running a shop with ISO QC requirements, that would be a problem for traceability, in a way that recording a RHEL release number solves for you. In particular, if you're such a shop, and CIQ or CloudLinux has sold you a cheaper support contract than RedHat would, with the promise that their RHEL rebuild should qualify for the same certifications, this is relevant.

@bkhl Stream is upstream compared to RHEL, so eg there's already been a case AFAIU where a bug or security fix was back ported to the version of a package* in RHEL, but Stream got the next version of the package, which is what went into the next point update of RHEL.

So if what you're trying to do is rebuild an exact RHEL copy, you may have extra work to do.
@clacke

*I think it was Python

@clacke I first played A Link to the Past in Japanese and let me tell you, it's a much better game if you can understand what's being said