If you want a really interesting look at the Narcissus story I can’t recommend highly enough a podcast called Alex Andreou’s Podyssey, which covers the story in it’s very first episode. It’s a fascinating deep dive in the story, and the podcast as a whole is excellent. Well worth a listen.

Confusingly there is also a podcast app called Podyssey, so you could listen to one on the other if you wanted 😁

Carpet Installation by Wonko the Sane.

Well, not rabbit, anyway.

As a UK right hander, shifting with my right hand would be super weird! Completely used to doing it with my left 😁

Soup is Good Food 😁

Seconding this - batch cooking is the way to go. Sometimes on a Sunday I’ll just spend a day making large batches of 2 or 3 meals like this, almost all of which will be frozen and then used over the next few weeks.

Not who you were replying to, but thanks for this. I’m hoping to give Linux a go this year, on an old laptop that isn’t needed anymore, and this makes me feel more confident about it!

They only run Miaowcrosoft products.

No problem 👍

Thanks! 😁

Yeah, I doubt I’d go to all the trouble if I was starting from scratch now. But this is more or less what I had back when Nova was king, and I’ve just replicated it because of muscle memory!

Not sure about the latter part, but Total is another launcher allowing 4-way swiping for shortcuts. Absolute godsend.

Using a non-default launcher gives you more options to customise your home screen and any other screens off to the side.

For example, Pixels always have the Google search bar right there on the home screen, and it’s not removable (or not last I checked). But what if I don’t want it there? A 3rd party launcher will usually give me that option.

Or another example - some launchers allow the use of gestures to activate certain things, eg open app A, start an email in app B, call a specific contact, etc. This can be gestures on empty parts of the screen or swipes on icons.

On my phone, on which I use Total Launcher, it looks like this:

Tapping each of those 12 icons opens a folder. But I can also swipe each folder icon up, down, left or right and have certain apps or activities open without ever needing to go into the app drawer.

So, if I want to make a call, I swipe left on the communications folder (top right). If I want to open Lemmy, I swipe right on the Internet folder (blue, bottom row). If I want to open my phone settings, I swipe up on the Tools folder. And so on.

That way, I can activate 48 different things while only having 12 icons on screen, keeping it quite neat and tidy, and leaving space for my little collection of widgets at the top.

I’d go with:

Mercury - Who
Venus - What
Earth - I Dunno
Mars - Why
Jupiter - Because
Saturn - Naturally
Uranus - Tomorrow
Neptune - Today
Pluto - I Don’t Give A Darn

https://youtu.be/kywqudj4dfs

If that was genuinely a typo, it’s brilliant!

Chicago is in Illinois, whose 2 letter code is IL 😁

Haven’t seen Warfare, but would definitely second Tora! Tora! Tora!, it’s a magnificent film.

Drama - The Wire
Comedy - Arrested Development
Mystery - Twin Peaks

Those should keep you going a while 😁

Wow, turns out Einstein was pretty smart! 😁

Indiana Jones.

Probably.

Sorry to hear that, gramps!

(Am also Gen X. Sigh…)