If you want to open Edge without actually wanting to open it, just accidentally click on one of the advertisements in the main menu or any info area widget. Those ignore the default browser and always open Edge.

Well—that is certainly a meticulous observation 👍

We should make it more clear, that it is not “Mastodon is the thing” but “ActivityPub is the thing, and Mastodon is just one of many implementations”

Google decided we need to be fed more algorithm crap instead of actually useful (i.e. most recent) results.

Oh, cool. I have both installed for different reasons and discovered it by accident.

My largest issue right now is that you cannot order search results by date anymore.

You can give mpv an URL from YouTube and it will play that video.

No, get a ladder.

Malicious compliance is the best form of compliance.

Can you ELI5 why water has no calories, which is also a unit of energy?

Calories are a very specific type of measuring energy, especially when used in the context of nutrition. When nutritionists say that water has 0 calories, they mean that water has no nutritional energy.

But when looking at it from a non-nutrition perspective water has calories.

When you say, “something has X calories”, it’s a shorthand of saying “something has an equivalent of X times the amount of energy that is needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1°C.”

From a physical point of view water ALWAYS has energy (that you can express in calories) because something with mass can never have no energy.

But I’m not sure that all matter has energy.

It has. If it has mass, it has energy, that is a core principle of how matter is defined scientifically.

Calories are not “a thing” but a measurement unit for energy. So yes. everything “has calories”.

You can easily remap it to something useful.

At this point I wonder if the last few months of systematically destructing the rest of Microsoft’s reputation is a false-flag action by Linux users who infiltrated the company.

AI bro’s “won” again.

If someone has the “ultimate solution” to something, they wouldn’t give it away in the Internet for “just $29.99”.

Well—that is certainly a meticulous observation! 🔍

TNG is also painfully old fashioned. Especially the fist two seasons are … hard to watch sometimes.

Honestly: I would start with VOY. It’s easy to watch, has a certain amount of action, and doesn’t lose it too much with society and politics.

Have we just become numb to ads?

Online I use multiple browser extensions and settings to avoid showing ads. In the offline world there is no way to avoid them but I think I pretty much can ignore them.

I also intentionally do not buy anything I remember seeing an ad for.

Please go see a doctor if you think you have skin cancer.