The main reason I didn’t move to Windows 11 when it was new was it being picky and refusing to install on a processor that was only released two years before the OS (my setup itself being only a year old at the time). Since most things I’ve read about it since then act as a deterrent to upgrading instead of an incentive I now have no real inclination to try and update from 10 until I’m forced to by software requirements.
Looks to be shallow enough to (at least mostly) avoid getting wet feet and the bottom looks firm, I’d give it a go without worrying too much. Could be awkward with the skinny tyres of a road bike but I’m assuming from the lead in and out being dirt that this is a track where one has at least brought a gravel bike.
LMFAO at Apple inventing laptops that don’t have weird keyboards
They weren’t saying the keyboards themselves were particularly good, they were saying Apple’s keyboard placement was a step forward (and it was). This page has a couple of pictures of early laptops - note where the Powerbook keyboard is compared to the others.
Say that to start off with then rather than “there’s no way to drive safely above the speed limit on a public road”, because there clearly are roads where it can be safe to drive above the speed limit.
Indeed, at least for most modern speed limits. That was intended as more of a rhetorical question to lead the person I was replying to towards noticing speed limits are typically set with a wide safety margin, and not actually at the limit of what can be safe in good conditions.
If speed limits are indeed set at the true safe maximum for all vehicles and all conditions then how can you travel safely at said speed limits in your car, which I would wager cannot corner as well or stop as quickly as a top end sports car?
There’s no way to drive safely above the speed limit on a public road.
If you’re driving a well maintained regular car in good conditions you absolutely can drive safely above many speed limits. If the speed limit was set at the true limit of safety nothing but the best handling vehicles in the best of conditions could drive at said limit safely, and this is clearly not the case for the vast majority of speed limits. Instead most traffic can travel safely at the set speed limit in less than ideal vehicles and in less than ideal conditions, so logically there are going to be situations where it would be safe to drive above said limit.
Consider too speed limit changes. In my area there have been a few roads recently which have been lowered from 100km/h limits to 80km/h. Nothing changed about these roads except the speed limit signs. Why was it possible to drive safely at the 100km/h limit one day but not possible to drive safely at the same speed on the next day? Another road several years back had its speed limit changed from 80km/h to 90km/h. Again only the signs changed, so why would it be unsafe to drive 90km/h there one day when that would be the speed limit the following day?
I’d consider it a normal phrase and I’m Australian, so it’s not just a British thing.
No, it’s thanks to no one else really begin in the tablet market
It’s not like other manufacturers haven’t tried (and some still are trying), people just tend to buy ipads instead.
Currently reading Van Diemen’s Land by James Boyce, covering the early history of Tasmania (as a European colony). About a quarter of the way through and interesting so far.
Before that I went through:
A LitRPG series called Apocalypse Tamer by Maxime Durand - standard LitRPG stuff with people gaining game like powers and the end of the world approaching. Wouldn’t say it really stands out but easy reading and doesn’t take itself too seriously.
Un Lun Dun by China Mieville, a young adult aimed urban fantasy story about saving an alternate London from a self aware cloud of pollution. Plays around amusingly with various chosen one and saving the world tropes, pretty quick read.
Reread Brass Man by Neal Asher - part of his Agent Cormac series in his Polity sci-fi universe. Interstelllar agent tracking down a criminal who has gained various powers, along with a few side stories. I find the Polity universe interesting, albeit somewhat grim for sci fi universes.
Through the Storm by John Ringo and Lydia Sherrer - another one aimed more at young adults, a continuation of a near future sci fi series about teenagers playing a augmented reality game that is turning out to secretly have real world implications. I like the premise but it did seem like this book focused more than the first on inter character drama rather than action or progressing the behind the scenes story.
Reread a few Discworld books, they’re basically all worth a re read every now and then.
Curiosity I guess, it’s not like I’ve done it often.
If you take the bag right out of the box it tends to be difficult to put back into the box, having seemingly become larger like the rabbit in the OP picture.
The pretty important context to this video is that the boy in question had allegedly just broken into the mayor’s house and he was waiting for the police (see here for a news article about the event).
I still retain a Windows install for games, and eventually things stop working easily. I kept running Windows 7 up until around when I built my current PC (2020) and that upgrade was due to some compatibility issue - I can’t remember whether it was hardware compatibility with the new setup or a game/launcher requiring Windows 10 before I upgraded. I expect that I will eventually get something that wants 11 to work.
Mind you I spend a lot less time on games these days and I will probably get a few more years out of that computer - it might be a good while before compatibility/security becomes an issue and I’m required to consider moving on.