I am a huge fan of lire (lireapp.com) - wonderful offline reading abilities. Great for long airplane rides!

De-clickbait - as a stain for biological samples used in electron microscopy.

That’s odd. I tried the URL in a couple of different browsers and it loaded correctly. Anyone else have problems loading it?

I’m decent at math, versed in PEMDAS / BOMDAS, and confess that I arrived at 1 until I read this mathematician’s take on the topic: https://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/2019/07/31/what-is-8-÷-22-2-the-correct-answer-explained/ (hint: it’s as much about typography and changing interpretations as it is about math).

When did the New York Times debase themselves by using clickbait headlines?

Fair enough! I stand corrected. The text, “Fireline” is readable in the Coulson press release. Is this your site? Please accept my apologies - AI has made me too para noid.

Ai slop picture in the article? Says 967, not 767 on the tail, and there appears to be AI mangled writing on the fuselage. A firefighting tanker also seems unlikely to have hundreds of seats between what appear to be large tanks…

Very useful info, thank you for posting this. I don’t yet see iOS 18.7.3 available in the device software update section (perhaps it’s a staggered rollout), but I do see iOS 26.2.

Ah, righto. That was an old rule in many subreddits. Seems to vary a bit by Lemmy community, though. I just cringe at clickbait!

A friendly request - please de-clickbait your headlines and say what the material is (although you do mention it in your summary).

That was a rule in some subreddits. I’ve found that, on Lemmy, de-clickbaiting headlines is generally appreciated.

Thank you both. I’ve never had the honour of having a comment downvoted so many times on Lemmy, so I presume that I raised some Gen Z hackles with my response. I know what an aura is, of course.

I’m an accomplished native English speaker, but suspect this may be written in a foreign language. strokes beard adjusts bow tie .

I’m not anti-capitalist, I’m just content with the things I have.

Perfectly happy with my iPhone 14 Pro Max, which has better build quality than the current offering, and my half decade old Surface Book Pro (running Linux, naturally) – also built like a tank. When I need extra compute or storage, my NAS and home server await. For really serious stuff, I can always fire up an EC2 instance. Propping up the economy through consumerism is not my concern. This feels like a sponsored piece, akin to all of those articles after COVOD exhorting us to go back to the office full time.

Easy to analyze:

• Steeply increasing costs
• Expensive real estate
• Sluggish wage growth
• Mass layoffs
• Economic and geopolitical uncertainty
• Structural change in employment (AI, etc)
• High interest rates / borrowing costs

May I have a job as an AI summarization bot or a highly compensated speaker in Davos next year?

I’m heartened to see a younger person taking an interest in vintage computing topics! *nix / Linux window manager customization (a la Enlightenment) is still a very active space (for instance, on Lemmy, look at the “unixporn” communities - SFW despite the name, featuring user WM customizations). I hope you’ll continue writing!

Nicely done. I was charmed by the perspective in this article, which struck me as at that of a systems archaeologist rather than someone who was there at the time using the interfaces. I cut my teeth on twm and CDE, eventually moved to fvwm, and then turned pro by becoming a SGI IRIX admin.

The diversity of window managers at the time was impressive; I’d liken it to cars in the 1950s and 60s with chrome, vents and fins in every possible configuration in stark contrast to today’s bland automobile designs. The Enlightenment WM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_(window_manager) ) was a particular favorite due to its customization possibilities.

This is the standard of headlines that Ars Technica has descended to? Will they be advising the sanctioned lawyers to use “one weird trick” to get off scot-free in the near future?

Bravo for de-clickbaiting the headline!