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I’ll be that guy.

“lose” / “loses” are the words you’re looking for.

This is one of those situations where English doesn’t make sense. “loose” doesn’t rhyme with “choose”, but “lose” does, yet all other “-ose” words rhyme with “nose”.

“Lose” is the opposite of “win”. “Loose” is the opposite of “tight”.

Even as a relative youngster I remember visiting previous schools for some reason or another and being astounded by just how tiny the chairs and desks were.

Firefox. Considering moving (back) to Waterfox, but unwilling to make the effort right now. I last used Waterfox back when they beat Firefox proper to being a true 64-bit browser.

But here’s the interesting one that I’ve mentioned before: MiniBrowser. It’s a bare bones browser that’s included with libwebkit* packages on Linux, which are, in turn installed by various other packages that might need some kind of web-like parsing.

I wouldn’t recommend it as a daily driver, but it’s useful as a troubleshooting tool when I think there might be a problem with Firefox or between Firefox, my config, and some site or another.

Call me cynical, but I think you’ve put quotes around the wrong part of your title.

Try around “accidentally”.

“120mm optical media” is better, because that’s the official measurement, but it has its own problems. There’s the “mini” form factor at 80mm and the credit card form factor as well, and those still qualify as CDs, DVDs, etc., even though they’re not 120mm.

“Optical media whose most common form factor is a 120mm disc” fits, as does “CD-like media”, but the former is wordy and the latter comes with the potential confusion that the others are CDs, when they’re not. Which I admit to deliberately avoiding for precisely that reason.

My computer, in full working order, with Internet access.

If any of that goes wrong, I’m in a very bad place.

If it’s owned by a corporation, then fair use and/or non-commercial use may come into play, depending on local legislation. Basically, use it until you get told to stop. It’s effectively free advertising until they take exception to you.

For a smaller creator, they’re usually more receptive (and responsive) than a corporation, so consider asking permission.

You could go full Weird Al and ask permission of a corporation if you’re that way out. But they’re more likely to not respond or say no if they have no idea who you are.

Of course, a thing to watch out for is the unlikely occurrence of becoming famous while using that avatar. It can’t be your brand because it’s someone else’s.

So, you might consider pulling a Ray Parker Jr. and (commission someone to) make something that’s almost but not entirely unlike the artwork you’re trying to use. That said, RPJ did get sued anyway. Maybe take it a couple more notches off similarity.

… oh and try to avoid using AI to clone something.

The pedant in me cannot let slide that your title talks of compact discs but the image is of write-once blank DVDs.

But no, I don’t use any form of 4.7" optical media very often. The last time I used the optical drive in this computer was to watch a DVD that I didn’t want to go downstairs and watch on the TV. That must be a good few months ago now.

As to why I even have such a drive - long, boring story. I had assumed that if I ever had need of one, I’d just take the one out of my old PC. When that time came, the newer PC refused to boot with that drive installed. (Imagine, if you will, being in that situation, and the ensuing horror and frustration.)

It then made sense to buy a different one to troubleshoot and cover that potential need. And I haven’t bothered to uninstall it after “testing”.

Edit: Sometimes I a word.

DDR4 is cheaper than DDR5, sure, but retailers have jacked the price of both by the same percentage, so it’s not really all that much of a rescue.

I expect people will need a full mortgage to pay for DDR6 when it comes out next year.

Those who dehumanise are the true subhumans.

There are groups with “humor”, “comic” and “meme” in the name, some of which have a decent amount of traffic.

Use whatever search feature is available to you (pretty sure this varies by app and platform) to track them down.

That’s not even hard to prove. On one of my accounts, they’ve been popping up little notifications oh-so-innocently asking the user if they’re having problems. They contain a link telling the user to turn off their ad-blocker or whatever other browser add-ons might be interfering with Google’s ad delivery platform. I paraphrase slightly, but it’s what they mean.

But to answer the question, while remaining somewhat vague: I know of someone who is said to have died of a specific ailment, but they’d hit very hard times and were of a religion where taking one’s own life is, or was, considered incredibly taboo. My lurking suspicion is that they might have done the unthinkable and it was covered up for the sake of appearances.

That’s not something I think I’d ever be able to prove and trying would cause more harm than good.

I’m surprised those signs don’t include sinistralité. Those left-handed f–kers are up to something even worse than the gays, I’m sure of it.

(/s is for satire and that’s good enough for me)

Interesting. And yet it’s still incomplete. F6 and Alt+D both do the same thing (focus the address bar), so there’s at least one line missing and definitely at least one column.

This must seriously be messing with the heads of people high up in insurance companies. On the one hand AI is something that no C-level can resist, but on the other, that’s an expensive way to say “no” to every request for money.

I saw a documentary about this. I think they called it Caprica.

“Don’t be silly, they can’t do that. That’d be antisemitic.” – Bibi Utteryahoo

Literally: https://www.youtube.com/@Amateur.Chemistry

I guess no-one else thought to take the name before he did.

If you want some idea what it might have been like, it would probably be about as close to Welsh as Welsh is to Breton.

… which might not be all that helpful as a factoid, so here’s Wikipedia’s Swadesh list for the Celtic languages: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Celtic_Swadesh_lists

(In loosely related news, you know you might have been reading too much about linguistics when, while scanning the above, you recognise the Welsh word “benyw” as a cognate for the English word “queen”, (but with a meaning closer to Norwegian “kvinne”). That was a kick in the head for sure.)

One thing is certain: Your distro’s repository’s version of yt-dlp - even on bleeding edge distros - is likely out of date, and you’ll have to find and run the appimage version from the devs.