Notices by Mans R (mansr@society.oftrolls.com), page 3

@trianero @fanta Panem et circenses.

@vaurora The location will still be made-up though.

@cwebber Because laptops don't usually let you install RAM at all beyond what they are manufactured with, let alone lots of it. Repairing is also mostly out of the question. A notable exception on both counts is the Framework laptops, at least on paper. Maybe one of them fits your needs.

@rallias @cwebber It is obviously possible to only buy the rare laptops that can be upgraded, and you've obviously done that. Stop pretending your choices are representative of the market at large.

Also, 64 GB isn't exactly a lot these days.

@cwebber Most of those requirements point towards something that isn't a laptop.

@clacke Sorry, I can't think of anything that comes close to the two you mentioned in terms of mainstream disdain. The "Algerian" font that came with MS Office 95 was certainly overused (and almost always looks ridiculous), but I don't think it's as widely recognised.

@clacke Trebuchet MS is horrible but in more subtle ways than those two. The longer you look at it, the uglier it gets.

And then there's Arial, obviously. The capital R is just hideous.

@clacke Could accuracy be improved by linking two phones with the promise that they will be within, say, 1 m of one another?

@clacke @bonkers It gets EVERYWHERE.

@bonkers @clacke Dessert can be eaten or not, simple choice. With glitter, there is no opt-out.

@ryanc Why does a heat pump need a Gmail account?

@alextecplayz @fesshole It would be a problem if the contractor was billing multiple clients for the same hours. Doing multiple part-time contracts in parallel is of course perfectly normal.

@neil There also needs to be the freedom, for the author, not to accept unsolicited contributions, no matter how well intentioned.

@clacke Oh, you have an actual Flash thing, not just a video wrapped in a Flash container because that was the style at the time.

Maybe you can find some tool from the same era able to pick it apart. You'll probably need an equally old copy of Windows to run it on, of course.

Are you sure it's worth the trouble?

@clacke Have you tried VLC or something adjacent?

@clacke It's always the Greeks.

@clacke Oh dear. Once again, I'm glad I left Sweden. It's only going to get worse.

@clacke What‽

@clacke Find out which day of the week has the most holidays on average, then schedule recurring meetings on that day.

@civodul Matlab comes to mind. I know it's not open source, but that's beside the point here.