US doesn’t use imperial anymore.

They never did to begin with. US customary units descend from older English customary units. During the 19th century the British government redefined some things in some weights and measures acts and that was called the Imperial system because of the British Empire. US never used Imperial as they were happy doing their own independent shit.

US customary and Imperial units differed a bit until the 20th century. In the 30s there was an ‘industrial’ inch agreed upon, the 25.4mm as you said, but weights still differed. In the 50s there was a conference where the US, UK and some commonwealth countries agreed upon a standardised international yard and pound, the international yard being 0.9144 meters and the international pound 0.45359237 kilograms, defined in metric as you said. Liquid measures were not standardised for some reason so US and Imperial gallons still differ.

The formal definition of Fahrenheit is based on Kelvin these days.

That’s the proper name of it. The Ukraine isn’t the proper name of Ukraine.

Yeah there was an official leave campaign which had Boris and co. and turn there was Farage’s unofficial side campaign. It was the official campaign that ran the 350 million a week for the NHS on the side of a bus ad, not Farage’s. Farage’s campaign was mostly focused on racist fear mongering about immigrants.

It’s per se, not persay. From the latin ‘per’ meaning by and ‘sē’ meaning itself.

The ‘Don’t be evil’ era was quite a long time ago now. Google’s been greedy scumbags for quite some time now so this really isn’t that unexpected.

But what the real cost to Google is here is that they have evaporated my loyalty and good will. I now see them as a company that will squeeze me when they know they can get away with it, and that my loyalty and being an early adopter means nothing to them.

You really expected more from Google?

Yeah, well maybe a better quality pic on the right as it looks quite raw lol.

It annoys me when people leave a review because what they bought arrived damaged. That’s a review on the shitty delivery, not on the item itself. Just send it back and get a replacement.

Had to scroll down so far to find an actual hot take.

A better comparison image would’ve been sonic the hedgehog with the waterfalls. Such a huge difference without the crt dithering type effect.

Metal, the anime of music. Currently in a stoner and sludge phase.

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.

Remember the shareware days when up to a third of a game was given away free? Good times. I still copied those floppies though.

I haven’t checked that place out for a while. Looks like there’s a small handful of other roms people have ported to my model so I’ll give them a look over. Might be able to extend the life of this thing for a bit longer. Cheers!

Yeah you vastly over estimate how much I can afford lol. I’ve had this cheap ass piece of shit for almost three years now. I’ll get another cheap ass piece of shit at the end of this year or maybe next. You really gotta make shit last when you’re perpetually broke.

The top of the range phone camera megapixel and ai processing arms race is just pure masturbation.

On most rss readers you can just paste in the url of a youtube channel and it’ll find the rss feed for you, no need to dig about in the code. Worked for me in everything I’ve used over the years.

I only ever buy some cheap shit when my last shit bucket phone starts packing in and hasn’t received a security update in a while. I try to drag it out as long as I can but the budget phone makers seem to be getting more scummy and supporting their phones for shorter periods of time. For the first time in my life I’m getting tempted to buy an apple product.

As to why people buy new every year; from the adverts it all seems to be about more megapixels and ai image processing as phone makers rarely ever seem to boast about anything else anymore, apart from the occasional gimmick. Dunno why anyone needs an extra billion or so megapixels, especially as phone lenses are kinda shit in general.

Lineage isn’t compatible with every phone. My shitty realme has no images there. It always depends on if there’s someone willing to actually make images for specific phones.

Lesson here is to never buy a realme.

It’s bloody great. I love the absurd humour and wordplay, the weird non linear plot, the black humour and satire of bureaucracy. Then you get hit in the guy with some really dark depressive shit. It really isn’t for everyone, though. There ain’t nothing like it. Well Kurt Vonnegut kinda has the same vibe in some of his books, but I love his books for other reasons.

I’d probably put a Vonnegut book in my favourites list as well but I couldn’t decide which one!

Well it’s kinda complicated lol. It’s not really one giant series that has to be read in order, it’s a bit of a shared world type thing with various sub-series focusing on various characters or places and some stand alone stuff. Some characters will kinda float in and out of the various sub series as well, and a lot of the books are centred around the city of Ankh-Morpork. The later books kinda got more connected with various plots about technological and social progress across the world.

Night Watch is the 5th or 6th (I forget which) Watch sub-series of books which focus on Ankh Morpork’s city watch, ie coppers. It focuses mostly on their Commander Sam Vimes. I’d rate the watch books as some of the more inter connected ones, so reading the previous 4 or 5 watch books at the very least before Night Watch would most certainly enhance it a lot.

It’ll probably still be quite a good read without knowing the background of the characters and city though, Pratchett’s satire and social commentary would still shine through, but you’ll probably miss out on a bunch of subtext.

The Discworld books are some of my favourites, started reading them in the late 90s as a teen and they’ve been with me through some tough times. I recently had a big re-read of almost the entire series over the past few years and I’m still finding new things, new jokes and puns and new meanings after all these years. I still haven’t read the final 2 or 3 though. Kinda makes me sad thinking they there will be no more to read after those so I’ll hold off for a few more years. First couple of books are a bit meh though.

GNU Terry.