I had to replace mine every couple of years because they break (i.e. start leaking).

Gif is just an image format. It supports still images, too, and many if not most other image formats also support animations.

But it is true that with most displays, images are never truly still.

Join the dark side 😈

Unorganized bookmarks tend to be a lot less useful compared to open tabs once you do actually go back to them. I already organized my tabs when I opened them.

Extensions like Tree Style Tabs that display tabs as a vertical list are really good for that, especially if they also let you group the tabs in collapsible sublists. Some browsers have vertical tab bars, but it’s considerably less useful if you can’t collapse part of the list.

Firefox plugin that’ll allow me to type parts of the tabs domain or title and it’ll filter the results.

Is that different from searching all open tabs by typing % [keyword] into the address bar?

For research purposes it’s usually not necessary to keep every tab loaded, though. Extensions like Auto Tab Discard make open tabs about as resource-intensive as bookmarks, for a lot less extra work and much cheaper than new RAM.

You can search specifically for open tabs in Firefox and probably most other browsers (enter % [keyword] in Firefox’ address bar). If you tend to have related tabs near it, it’s less work than opening all those tabs back up through bookmarks or history.

Keeping them open keeps them more visible than if you only rely on bookmarks or browser history. Personally I use a browser extension for vertical tabs (Tree Style Tab) that allows you to make subgroups, which does a great job organizing the tabs - I could replicate something similar with bookmarks, but that would be additional work.

I also use an extension that automaticaly unloads tabs after a while (you can toggle it off on a per-tab basis, of course), which helps a lot with keeping down resource use.

USA during WW2: concentration camp. Only for the Japanese, though, Germans were A-OK!

Does it? OCR is still pretty bad, it’s definitely going to be more annoying than plaintext. It might be worth it, but that doesn’t really make it that much less of a pain in the ass to deal with. You might need to use symbols that aren’t alphanumeric (along the lines of QR codes) to make the conversion to plaintext more reliable. I don’t think we have something like that right now.

What if you start sending encrypted letters and don’t write your name on it anywhere? Though that would definitely be annoying for the recipient.

Oh yeah. It sucks trying to search for tips, solutions etc. when you only know the localized terms, and it’s rare that help resources in different languages are even somewhat useful and up-to-date.

Also, localized voice acting tends to be lame. For one reason or another they’re rarely as good as the original ones. Conversely, I found that German voice acting for games that were originally written in German can be quite good - it seems that localization just doesn’t have the same energy as the original.

I suppose I’m relatively spoiled as a German.

FAAMG or whatever they call themselves now) are now laying off massive amounts of workers to replace them with poorly implemented AI.

I do remember setting my webbrowser to English to avoid YouTube’s absurd automatic title translations, and that was before the LLM hype …

Fairly obvious if you grew up in a non-anglophone country. It’s part of the reason why certain kinds of people set their machines to English even if everything is localized well. And it’s not just error messages, most of the good learning material is in English, too, especially for niche or very recent software.

Makes me wonder what kind of device you’re using in the shower, though.

AFAIK, freight trucks/lorries can contact each other, through radio. But imagine how much worse road rage would be if you could shit-talk other drivers over radio. Would be funny, though.

Many (maybe most) non-anglophones are already doing that …

… depending on your definition of “local”. Where are the big anglophone servers located, anyway?

Signal had a Linux app for years.

WhatsApp might not have a Linux app, but I don’t use it on my phone, either. Fuck Meta.

When I switched from Windows to Linux, I was already primarily using open source applications, so I wasn’t missing out on much.

Do they show any kind of remorse, like “I didn’t think it would be that bad”, denial “I don’t believe [bad thing] actually happened”, or are they straight-up going “serves them right, fuck them kids”? If it’s the third option, I wouldn’t even let them into my house anymore.

Did they also pick the car rental company for, assuming there is more than one option in your area? Increasingly sounds like nepotism or similar …