This is an established phenomenon in linguistics, called betacism! There are several languages that have gone from V to B or vice versa over time.

Pretty much all V sounds in modern “native” English words would have been B sounds in its Germanic predecessors.

This is C#, isn’t it?

This is so eerily dystopian. It’s Sherwood Village, formerly the Sheridan Center, in Mississuaga, Ontaria, Canada.

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There’s a non-obvious freeze function in the Task Manager - for as long as you hold the Ctrl key, it’ll stop updating the list. I have no idea why this functionality is hidden, but I guess Dave Plummer had some unusual ideas about UX.

When you install LibreOffice now, the set-up guide encourages you gently to use the newer, friendlier tabbed interface. I don’t know if the same is true for in-place updates.

make sure the paint is DAMP and the paper is DAMN

I only have DARN paper, will that work?

What are chickens? We just don’t know.

Also addressed in the video! Neither I nor the video creator has any stake in what you choose to do, and I’d prefer not to rehash the whole video for you since it’s right there for you to watch if you’re interested in this topic, but the main points were generally about reducing subscription costs and gaining better control of content (e.g. no surprise removals of music, videos, and ebooks).

Persist with the video! The text-to-speech is only for a couple of quick screens - the rest is very personal, and they cover a bunch of use cases.

If you really don’t want to, the server OS they recommend around two-thirds of the way through is YunoHost, a beginner-friendly way to run services as containers on any capable spare computer. The YunoHost website has a bunch of use cases that are also covered in the video.

Solid response, thanks. FWIW, I wasn’t trying to suggest that the US is doing well in this regard, just that someone could read the headline and assume that China could reasonably be considered a green country (so to speak).

Regarding the UK, it’s certainly true that domestic manufacture has nearly vanished in the last 50 years, so while a reduced dependency on coal, stricter rules on vehicles, and other similar factors are probably important, I agree that they’re also likely not the only type of change that affects this – and if so, that really represents the carbon pollution moving elsewhere, as you’ve mentioned.

I’m not sure who downvoted you, but China’s carbon emissions p/c have more than tripled this century, and for only two years (up to 2022) in that period have they been less than the year prior, and even then, by tiny amounts.

Plenty of countries have worse figures (including the US, Canada, and Australia), but unless the trajectory has changed notably since 2022, it doesn’t paint a pretty picture. The US has dropped by a third in the same period, though it’s much too high.

The Start menu is C++/XAML, but the “recommended” section uses React Native for Windows. That still means a performance hit, but it’s got nothing to do with Electron.

It’s Hamtramck, Wayne County, Michigan, USA, since the title is clickbaity. It’s just outside a city within Detroit, and the population is around 28,000, though it was historically more populous.

It’s has a lot of immigrants settle there from Yemen, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and south-east Asia since the town had a financial crisis in the mid-2000s stemming from factory closures. The council has typically had a Muslim majority in the past two decades.

I really hope that this is the answer, purely because adding more tape to fix an incredibly tape-heavy setup would be hilarious.

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What’s the first image? I can’t remember how ROTK portrays the hobbits’ return to the Shire, other than general disappointment, but this looks a little like they might have filmed the Scouring of the Shire and then scrapped it.

Center right is Idris Elba as DCI John Luther in Luther, not as Stringer Bell in The Wire.

Happy Indepedence Day! Because you can write “independence” without three Ns!