Owning a domain name is still a reasonably good idea, but it was never a path to fame, even back then. A stepping stone, maybe, but even then, not strictly necessary.

Yahoo mail still exists - you can even set up a new one - but they got rid of the forwarding feature for free accounts a few years ago, so you actually have to make an effort to log in to the site and check. There’s no way to access free mail accounts other than doing that. Of course, if you’re willing to pay something, you can get forwarding back and maybe something like POP or even IMAP.

Of course, if you do pay, you’ll be supporting some of the more questionable decisions made by Yahoo management.

Yeah, but it’s those politicians who’ll send their compatriots to war.

If instead they’d started walking the propaganda back rather than lighting fires under everyone and getting everyone mad, it might have averted this. (Past tense because it might already be too late by the look of it). And one way to convince blood-thirsty ivory tower dwellers that war is a bad idea is that room I mentioned.

I mean, I saw a video the other day of children at a kindergarten or primary school where a little boy declared that he wanted to see the destruction of the other country. I forget now which country the boy was from, but it doesn’t matter. The politicians on each side have been fomenting hate for decades when they could have been doing the opposite, and that, unlike money, actually does trickle down.

Gina, you’re a woman (apparently), and in Trump’s world order, women are second-class citizens who should keep their mouths shut. As a fan of his policies, therefore, you should do just that.

Here’s a song from the '80s about that sort of Afrikaner

Here’s an idea: Let’s take the five or six middle-aged male politicians (because it’s almost always middle-aged male politicians) from each side who want to send their own people to war and put them in a big room with baseball bats.

My bet is it will be like those viral videos where dogs bark at each other when there’s a gate in the way, but if someone opens the gate, they just stare at each other and look nervous.

Whatever happens in there, it’s to have absolutely no bearing on their countries or the rest of the world, but they’re not allowed to come out until they all need a hospital.

And if they still want war after that, they go back in the room.

Can’t vouch for any other distro, but aplay is alive and well on Mint. The package that contains it — alsa-utils — seems to be a core dependency for Cinnamon, even.

So basically, your example runs fine on my machine, screechy sounds and everything.

Unfortunately, from the outside it looks very much like the anti-Zionists are taking the position of “once the Zionists have done all the Zionism, we’ll give them a very stern telling off.”

This may not be how it actually is, but as long as Yahoo and people of his mindset are in charge, it won’t look any better than that.

Too cheap. It needs to be “the immediate resignation from office of anyone in the US who would want to purchase or otherwise take control of Canadian territory”.

Turkish has (and maybe related languages have) genderless pronouns, but I don’t know whether that context shifts elsewhere in the sentence structure or not, and how necessary it might be in legal contracts.

Find a way to call the authorities. I don’t trust my brain at the best of times, and for all I know, I’m the murderer despite no recollection. Because of no recollection. That’d be a sign of some kind of mental problem, right? And if I’m otherwise fine and not responsible, there’s still a whacking great gap in my memory (for how I came to be there) and there’s a murderer on the loose.

I’d also try not to contaminate the scene any more than I had to.

Knowing my luck, the police would pin it on me anyway, but since, as I said, I don’t trust my brain, as far as I know, they might well be right and it might be the best thing for everyone if I am put away somewhere.

There’s another, more DNS-related, reason why it was usually preferred to have something before the domain part. It’s possible to alias a subdomain to another subdomain, but not so with the root of a domain, which must point directly at a single IP address.

If your IP addresses are more subject to change than your hostnames, or your site was hosted on a third party service, then it made sense to point www at a particular hostname rather than its address. e.g. you might point www.your-domain-here.biz at a-hostname.the-hosting-provider.tld. That’s not possible with a root domain. IP address or nothing.

Similarly, it’s possible to point a subdomain at multiple IP addresses (or multiple hostnames) at the same time, which was a cheap way to do load balancing. i.e. For a site a user hadn’t visited before, they’d be basically told one of the listed IP addresses at random, and then their local DNS cache would return that one IP address until it expired, generally giving enough time for the visitor to do what they wanted. Slap 8 different IPs in the www subdomain and you’d split your visitors across 8 different servers.

Root domain has no such capability.

Technically it would be possible to do all of that one level higher in DNS where your domain itself is the subdomain, but good luck getting a domain registry to do that for you.

I haven’t done DNS in over a decade at this point, so things may have changed in the intervening years, but this was all definitely a thing once upon a time.

Preposterous!! Whoever heard of a president’s son being elected president?

Me? Probably the leaflet delivered to my workplace that said “Missing a package? Call this (premium rate) number.”

In retrospect I have no idea what I was thinking by calling it. Gonna blame stress, morning brain and the fact I’d been waiting an unusually long time for an international delivery, but I should have seen the big red flag.

Once I went through proper channels, it turned out the seller hadn’t even got around to shipping it. “Stuck in their system” or something like that. Thankfully that in itself wasn’t a scam (seller was a well-known web store) and my item turned up a week or two later at no extra cost.

Calling the number wasn’t a million pound mistake on my part, but over a handful of similarly gullible individuals, the scammers probably made a few thousand profit over the price of a few leaflets.

Someone else? Probably a slick mobile phone salesman signing an elderly relative up to a contract rather than sticking with pay-as-you-go. The mobile phone companies really don’t like PAYG customers because they’re not a guaranteed constant drip-feed of money.

Said relative is usually pretty sharp when it comes to scams, and frankly it’s not that expensive a contract, but still, I’m annoyed about it.

You do realise that even though it’s not one of the official Mint variants, it’s still possible to install Gnome on Mint with minimal fuss?

There are people that still install and run KDE and that hasn’t been a Mint variant for some time now.

Or are you saying that Gnome should be the default variant because it’s “modern”?

The monkey’s paw curled a finger when they took off in that direction. Most old Linux/X applications will run fine under any window manager / desktop environment and, by and large, inherit the look and feel of that environment. Modern Gnome apps say “no” to that and look like Gnome apps wherever they are.

Since the Mint team are forking Gnome apps precisely to avoid that behaviour, I’d say Mint isn’t going to adopt Gnome proper any time soon, but as I said, you can install it if you really want.

They write in Finnish in other comments, but I don’t seem to be able to confirm or deny the law there, at least not with a quick search.

I did find an article that suggested that it’s been ruled legal in Italy, but only if you’re homeless and hungry. I can imagine that if you tried it and had any assets whatsoever, they’d find a way to put a lien on those assets rather than let you get away with it.

Because that would require the two nations to stop acting like children. They’re both more than capable of it, but as soon as they get together, they act like siblings reverting to childhood rivalry.

And when slap-fights and arguments over who gets the teddy bear escape the metaphor to nation size, people literally die.

Bad news for you: Spez loves Elon and his business ethos.

You remember how at one point Elon was beloved among nerds? A lot of that was fomented on Reddit, and a few haven’t grown out of it yet.

“A 'ISO” where that apostrophe represents hard attack on the vowel sound.

As for what that is, consider the phrase “Paula asked a question.”

If enunciated clearly there’ll be a hard attack between “Paula” and “asked”.

(In this example, some — chiefly British — people will put an R sound between them if they don’t enunciate clearly. The R wouldn’t show up in “A ISO”, but this is to demonstrate hard attack, not get into those weeds.)

There was a whole show about Raccoons in the late '80s & early ‘90s. I still remember Bert Raccoon’s name so he must have been at least somewhat famous. I admit I didn’t remember the other raccoons’ names without looking them up, but it has been a while.

Looks like many episodes are up on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@runwithusproductions/videos

Also, I’m surprised no-one’s said Tom Nook, even though he’s technically a tanuki, not an actual raccoon.

¯\(x_x)/¯

Pedant mode rising. “A ISO” is only valid in a few English dialects and this doesn’t read like any of those everywhere else. Also, there’s the missing apostrophe in “lets”.