Windows 11 ended support for vertical taskbars and the default setting is along the bottom with the tasks centered. You can change the “taskbar alignment” setting to “left” but that just aligns the tasks to the left side of the bar. There apparently was a registry hack that allowed you to move the taskbar, but that got patched out by the time my work updated my workstation

Hey Windows, set my taskbar to run vertically along the left side of my screen. 🖕

Yes and no?

Stuff happened in the early 10’s, and the community forked LibreOffice which became the spiritual successor to OOO, while the OO trademark got transferred to Apache.

Is that a pangolin!

What is it good for?

Is there a cucumber nearby?

Boring everyday stuff like reading notifications without pulling out your phone, watching videos on public transit, watching a tutorial while working on a project, reading a recipe while cooking, navigation, watching whatever people watch when they get high, text magnification for folks who need it…

Podcasts, all running at 70% speed:

• The Empty Bowl
• Sawbones
• Bake On
• What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law
• Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me

Bonus: I created shortcut that runs this playlist, sets the volume low, turns the speed down, and sets a sleep timer. I also have an automation that runs the shortcut whenever my phone connects to my Bluetooth speaker and my phone is in sleep focus.

Those seas in particular? Because they are bounded by narrow straights.

A gulf has a more specific definition. A sea has a very broad one.

A gulf is mostly enveloped (engulfed) by land, but fairly open to its parent waters relative to its size on one side. Like a reverse peninsula.

A sea can be just about any large, salty, body of water that is between bits of land. They can have very finite bounds such as narrow straights and rivers mouths, more porous bounds like an archipelago, or broadly open to the ocean / other seas between islands or other land masses.

The question for me is “why is the Persian Gulf not a sea, but the Adriatic Sea is not a gulf?”

I guess part of it is that language changes over time, these things got named by different people over the millennia before they were well mapped. Some are translations from other languages, some are political decisions.

The idiom “a lemon in the hand is worth the boat you rode in on” conveys a similar meaning to the idiom “a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush”. It emphasizes that it’s better to appreciate what you have and avoid unnecessary risks or changes, as a loss of a current advantage may not be compensated by a potential future gain. The “lemon” represents something undesirable or less valuable, but the “boat” represents something that could potentially be better but is not guaranteed.

In Japan, they are selling a Japanese language only model that is cheaper than the international version. Any Americans that don’t understand that and try to get around the tariffs are likely to be disappointed.

I’m going to set aside my dislike for pod machines and coffee in general to point out that warm moist environments encourage microbial growth. It is best to open and empty the machine so it can breathe between uses; especially overnight or over the weekend.

Fun fact! Pizza is already plural. The singular is a piz, which is where we get the English word “piece”, because pizza come pre-portioned. The word “peace” also comes from the same derivation, because it is impossible to go to war while enjoying a piz of pizza.

/s

What if the singular of Kleenex was a Kleenek.

My eggos

It’s nice to have a fallback pool of long run shows you enjoyed once. Things you can put on until something else catches your fancy. For me there’s ~90’s era Star Trek, Stargate, Parks & Rec… For someone else it might be The Office, Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, Cheers, etc. There are plenty of 100+ episode anime out there…

There is something similar but not quite. Masa is made from nixtamalized corn, but the process to make fresh masa means pulverizing the moist kernels into a dough. Then, to store for later use, the dough can be dried and ground into a flour: masa harina (literally “dough flour”).

599 almost 20 years ago (or about 950 in today dollars).

Small children who don’t know any better.

I’ve been waiting years for 8bitdo the make a fully functional clone and they haven’t yet.

The closest they’ve come is a retrofit electronics kit for the OG shell last year.