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The story is too long, and too off-topic, to share here. Basically, I'd recently retired. I bought an old Honda just to drive it more or...

New lenses installed here to replace the cataracts. One each in both eyes, installed a week apart. Research suggests the operation is...

As the thread is 'solved', I'll tuck this in here: I started wearing corrective lenses as a child. I'm so acclimated to it that I am...

Yes, I didn't mind that one, too. I have to see me an optometrist before long to get updated on how long before I may need cataract...

I saw this yesterday, but it wasn't on this site. They'll keep their main browser around. That one gets funded by agreements with other...

Thanks for that X11 reminder! After so many years configuring and manipulating X, so much accumulated knowledge becoming obsolete is...

I don't think I'm ready to go back to such a low resolution. I can accept the colors, but not that resolution.

I had linux on a 2015 computer just so I could use the internet, but now I'm wanting to learn. Could anyone recommend any free classes?

KDE developers continue to be quite busy in preparing additional Plasma 6.7 desktop features ahead of the stable release due out in...

I didn't respond yesterday, for a couple of reasons. Mostly, I only have a 'stab in the dark' and that only works on X11 systems. Plus...

Using multiple keys to do something. We use it all the time, but probably not to the extent of Emacs. For example, press CTRL _ ALT + T...

I admit that I do more noodling on my guitars than directed practice these days. I prefer to play tunes, and it's not unusual to drift...

Absolutely. If my brain were a Windows HDD, I'd say it could use a defrag now and again. I was told (at a fairly young age) that the...

I once had a fancy monitor. It had TWO colors! I had green OR amber! No, you couldn't use both at once. You had to flip a switch on the...

I thought I might have remembered something like that, but it was so long ago I can't be sure. Sometimes it's hard to tell which are...