I’m more into firing painted matchsticks at a sheet of glass with a toy cannon, myself.

Regardless of whatever it did or however it did it, the way Pocket was suddenly shoved in everyone’s faces by default definitely left a bad taste in a lot of mouths (including mine) and everybody just considered it more unasked-for adware. Especially since in its default configuration about a quarter of what it serves you is indeed flat out ads, when most of us are using Firefox with uBlock or similar specifically not to see ads.

Pocket provided a feature I suspect few people actually used, and in the process had an obnoxious presentation that a lot of people actively disliked. Add me to the list of people who won’t be sad to see it go.

I want my browser developer developing browsers, not other ancillary side projects and certainly not “curating content” or whatever the fuck.

I would not be at all surprised to learn that Pocket costs Mozilla a nontrivial amount of money and manpower to maintain, what with doing all that curation and all, and provides them bupkis in return.

Pocket absolutely would suggest you articles (and ads) by default unless you explicitly told it not to in your settings. This is separate from the tiles of frequently visited pages from your history.

The second slider down is your history/pinned shortcuts on the home screen. The third one is recommended junk, “Powered by Pocket.”

More info on that here, for however long this will do anyone any good:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/pocket-recommendations-firefox-new-tab

Why didn’t you post the source to begin with to avoid all of this?

I stand corrected, however OP could have avoided a lot of bickering if they’d have just bothered to post the source to begin with – especially on the current internet where 99% of everything is AI.

I’m changing this instead to express my astonishment that the artist did capture the depth of field and also motion blur; see below.

It was redundant anyway, since it was just bookmarks with extra steps. But you can sync bookmarks between devices with Firefox anyway and you’ve been able to for years, so I have no idea why they kept it around other than to use it as a vehicle to push ads (because it seemed like roughly 25% of the “articles” it suggested to you were actually ads). I can’t say as I’m too sad to see it go.

Fakespot could arguably have been useful on paper, but I have to admit I never used it because I treat most online reviews as if they’re bullshit anyway.

This is solid gold-pressed latinum.

Sort of. Polymer, actually. It’s a common end-run around calling something “plastic” outright because that in and of itself is typically a shorthand for “cheap” or “flimsy.”

Anyway, the plastic cutting boards in commercial use (i.e. the ones I use because I am that kind of nerd) are made of high density polyethylene.

IIRC all of the past ones have worked over LAN, including over a private VPN if you so desire. I definitely played pirated copies of 1 and 2 with my mates. I had no real desire to get very deep into 3 because the campaign storyline was so stupid, but I don’t doubt you could.

It’s only online matchmaking with randos that you’ll be blocked from, which if you ask me is not really that much of a detriment.

There is no incorrect way. The typical shoelace knot is actually just a square knot, but one where you make the second part out of two loops (bights) rather than the standing ends. What technique you use to arrive there is completely irrelevant as long as the end result is the same.

(You could use a traditional square knot instead if you really wanted to, but it would be annoying to untie.)

“Produce” is presumably fruit and vegetables, although that’s a pretty broad category to lump together given that so many vegetables behave differently. Consider a tomato versus lettuce or a yam, for instance.

I will add another bullet point to the list above, specifically regarding cutting boards. Poly cutting boards are also acceptable and primarily what I use. However, if I see you using a glass cutting board or a plate as a cutting board, or chopping directly on your granite countertop, I am afraid I am going to have to hurt you.

I am, as you can imagine, the default knife sharpener within the circle of my family and friends. However for quite some years I would not sharpen any knives for my sister anymore because she refused stop using her stupid 1980s glass cutting boards. (I believe they were probably actually intended to be serving trays, but good luck making people understand that.) She kept complaining that my sharpening was “no good” because her knives dulled so quickly.

I was eventually able to coordinate with my brother in law who was also sick of it, and we located all of the glass boardlike objects in the house and surreptitiously threw them away.

It doesn’t help them save on material since the knife is ground from an originally flat slab of steel. The amount of material they remove from that bar is irrelevant to their materials cost, although it does add a bit of machine work.

The scallops in the blade are effective at preventing some foods from sticking only if you are using a long slicing motion. When chopping down from above they accomplish nothing.

True, but I’ll wager most of the things people are filching for these purposes get displayed on the screen at 100% scale anyway. Unless you’re sniping a picture for large format print, in which case I figure you’d probably be under less restrictive conditions… Hopefully.

use on a locked down school computer.

Shift + Win + S

I’ll bet they didn’t disable that in Group Policy. Lasso that sumbitch right off your screen and then just paste it into whatever.

I kind of get the thing about the map even without seeing the world design of the new game, because even Borderlands 1-3 (especially 3) already had a lot of vertical aspects to many of their maps. The prevalence of paths looping over other paths, hills, tunnels, holes, inexplicably impassable ditches dividing the map, and generally the entire path to anywhere being designed like the queue at an amusement park ride made using the 2D minimap to actually navigate anywhere basically impossible. (And the main full screen map wasn’t much better.) Showing your local terrain, such as it even did, was not really very helpful because even if you tried to use it to proceed in a straight line to your target you would inevitably find yourself blocked by an invisible wall surrounding waist high pile of rubble, and that the actual way to get there required looping all the way around the map anticlockwise, with nine switchbacks, four gates, and a one-way cliff jump in between.

At the end of the day it’s a fancy radar only useful to help you snout out nearby enemies, especially in the ever-so-many instances where your current mission objective outright requires you to find where each and every one of those stupid red diamonds is hiding so you can murder them all to proceed.

So I hope there is at least still a local enemy radar. They need to either make their map usable and 3D (like e.g. Doom 2016 did) or fix their level pathing so it’s not like a tornado just tore through the spaghetti factory.

This is the truth. I have a coworker who is into scooters and he was complaining about the NIMBY, ban-everything mindset currently pervading the entire electric scooter discussion.

I had to point out that the exact same arguments and whining currently being aimed at scooter riders – e.g., “they’re running up and down the sidewalk/ignoring red lights/weaving around traffic/‘zooming’ up my street/scaring my dog/wilting my rhododendrons/etc.” – are word for word the same arguments that were being directed against kids on (largely BMX) bicycles 30 years ago. Verbatim.

Now that there’s a hot new thing to screech about, suddenly pedal bicycles are automatically wholesome clean safe fun for the whole family.

In a further 30 years when jet powered pogo sticks or whatever the hell are the new fad, no one will complain about scooters, which will by then be normalized, and the cycle will start all over.

Also: You can do a wheelie all day long on a pedal bike, too. I sure as shit did when I was a teenager.

The solution being, for the singular person on Earth who hasn’t heard already, “If you were the other guard, which door would you say is the safe one?”

Alternatively, the barbarian in the party just splatters one of the guards in one hit and asks the remaining one, “Which door? You’ll go through it first.”

At least you didn’t try to open the bleed valve via the righty-loosey technique my neighbor tried on his near-new N series Elantra the other week. Snapped that sumbitch clean off. Bailing him out of that one was fun.

Bikes are dead easy to bleed; you don’t need any kit. You should be able to reach the bleeder nipple and the lever yourself without outside assistance which is all I’ve ever needed. Unless this is on the rear brake of a 'Busa with a 27 foot long swingarm installed on it or something. Pro tip: Loosely put the cap on the reservoir when you pump it, otherwise the master cylinder (especially for the front) tends to act like one of them ornamental fountains.

Hose that brake fluid off of everything right away because it’ll eat the finish off of just about anything that’s not bare metal. You probably also want to make sure both the piston and its bore are real clean before you put them back together.