‘There Will Be Blood’ depicts those early days quite graphically.

As it happens, China does have dual dating since 1912 (with some fluctuation), using the Gregorian calendar for most things except traditional holidays, which are celebrated according to the Chinese calendar.

The Gregorian calendar is generally one of the safer things to bet on, in this day. What could be that person’s thinking with the languages, however, that I don’t know.

TBF it’s kinda true for pistachios. The seed itself, excellent. But the thin brown skin that’s left in the shell? Outstanding. It seems to absorb all the salty flavor that’s bestowed upon the pistachios.

I sympathize with your brother’s sentiment, because I hate the texture of dried fruit, especially currants/raisins.

In the olden days oil reserves were discovered because oil was straight up seeping out of the ground.

What’s the defining good quality of cabbage when it comes to the texture? Because the watery taste is nothing particular to write home about. It’s rather the fact that it’s crunchy! And it stays crunchy when marinated! Unlike the spongy mess of boiled cabbage.

It also takes on the flavor from carrots and beets, turning the whole thing into delicious sour-sweet crunchy cocktail.

I once ate some canned olives that smelled like something gasoline-adjacent. Those were the most outstandingly tasty olives I’ve ever had, by far.

Boiling cabbage is just ruining the product. The only good way to prepare cabbage is to marinate it with vinegar, shredded carrots and beets, optionally adding some coriander.

TBF I for one want to code to install an app. By which I mean use Ansible.

Wine has some compatibility differences between its versions — I’ve had to downgrade it before because the newer version didn’t work with the app I wanted. So, if you’re ever in the mood to try again, you could check out an older version, and perhaps try launching a simpler app like notepad which is iirc supplied with Wine.

Also, Wine launched from the command line, with the exe as the parameter, usually prints a lot of stuff some of which may say what libraries weren’t found, and winetricks allows installing those libraries easily (if it’s still around, I haven’t done this in a while). Typically something like ‘MS C++ redistributables’ or the .NET framework is necessary.

What are you gonna be improving in fifty-year-old classics?

Not only we had compilers to z-code for a long time, but in fact first third-party languages for the z-machine were better than Infocom’s own, which was discovered from their leaked code. So I’d guess reversing the bytecode isn’t a problem either for a while now.

Considering that afaik they were shipped in Z-code, the game code was already visible to any Z-machine implementation and to whoever wanted to fiddle with raw Z-code.

Thanks again! This is very comprehensive and much more comprehensible.

Thanks, but as a non-quite-EU person I’d like you to know I understood your comment fine until a bit after the second comma in the second sentence, following which my grokking declined sharply to just the surface level when met with a bunch of peculiar terms forming a mighty wall of obstruction to my comprehending.

Just FYI, take a look at how YNAB works — which is a paid app, but with a great approach: you track your spending for a while, and then basically always know how much you can spend on various categories of things. Idk what the workflow is in modern budgeting apps, but back in the day YNAB was rather different from the more typical accounting-type software like GNUCash. One of its tenets is that you don’t spend money which you don’t actually have, i.e. the credit card dept.

Regarding email, consider buying a personal domain for your email address. You specify the ip addresses of the email provider in the domain’s DNS, and on the provider’s side specify that the domain is for your email box. This way, if the email provider doesn’t work out, you only need to change the DNS records to another provider, instead of changing the email address on accounts (which is often impossible).

However, not all email providers support custom domains, and some only do that on paid tiers.

Thanks for the explanation. As it happens, one of my irks about the Windows version of Transmission is that it doesn’t remember the position of the torrent-properties window. I want the list on the left, the details on the right — particularly since Transmission reuses the details window, essentially treating it as a pane. This worked splendidly on MacOS.

macOS are even worse in this regard IMO. Everything is just totally inconsistent

Why do you mention macOS if you haven’t used it?

Hold on, so I can’t run Transmission that has the torrent list in one window and torrent details in another window? Only one single window per app? What insanity is this.

Every app I know opens a window for the preferences, how is this solved in Wayland? Even just the typical Explorer-style file manager requires multiple windows to function. And of course, I always have a dozen Firefox windows open.