Well, i haven't neen much of a gamer for years (got too adicted to WoW), but just started again this year. I am amazed by Skyrim, and am now modding it up.

I also just got Cyberpunk 2077, and will get into it soon.

I second this. I discovered it a few weeks back, and it's impressive and fast.

Well, I just ripped a few of my old DVDs with handbrake, and I upscaled by setting the resolution to 720p and ensuring the "upscale" cjljeckbox is ticked.

Tovmy eye, it looks pretty good on my 55" 1080p TV, and I noticed in my voddeo player it scaled to my display size appropriately. If I imply ripped it, the video would have a hugee black box around it ony high red display.

I'd say using handbrake is fairly effective once you get it off the disk, for which I used a rip to mkv app in Linux.

The reason you can't find addresses is likely because the data is not added to the maps in your region. I have similar problems here, though my state got much detail from batch updates last year.

I found a resource that merges addresses into osmand maps monthly, for north america and beyond. Even better, it does so in a way that normal address layout for north Americans can be used when searching.

Here in north america, we search by typing "255 maple street, some town 01234", while osmand expects something like " USA some town street 123".

You can download merged maps from opensupermaps.com, and find almost any address you seek, then you can navigate. Osmand is pretty good with directions, but sometimes messes up. Magic Earth is better at navigation, and has similar features to Waze. OSMAnd has much greater map detail, where people have uploaded it.

A fellow old-schooler, I see! Me too!

This is my view. I went the privacy route. The result is the addictiveness of the service went way down. For me, that's a win.

There are other ways to give us content we might like. For example, have a list of topics and categories we can select. This reduces invasiveness while providing some benefit.

The problem is that does not give Google what it wants out of the relationship.

Lower level languages are definitely helpful in learning how computers work. When I was in college, I was not taught C, but our algorithms course was in C. We were expected to learn it on our own.

lisp and Prolog were used for AI - those we learned in class. Assembly was the ultimate "get intimate with the machine" language, and we wrote a simple compiler for VMS.

All of this is meant to help us understand how to work with machines. It doesn't mean that that's how we should work with machines. Sometimes the higher level language is the better choice. Sometimes it is not. We are expected to make that decision based on the situation at hand.

Brilliant! I'm stealing that idea. I love it when I learn useful tricks!

I'm curious - why use a VM ? What is the context here? Are you using a Linux phone and need Android apps to fill gaps, or are you running this in a laptop and use Android in some way I don't understand?

Plus, it is idempotent, which means you don't have to change it before pushing it to an existing infrastructure. If you do change it, the infrastructure will be updated to match. It ends the need for custom deployment scripts.

I second the vote for cheogram. As for the pending conversations ui overhaul, of which I know nothing, that should automatically transfer over to cheogram once it goes public. Cheogram extends conversations, wndci don't think they changed ui code.

Humanity as tools.