In this case you could view a swap partition as a safety net. Put 20-30GB in a swap partition in case something goes wrong. You won’t miss the disk space.

I’m not sure a corvette has ever counted as “major” warship.

Try living in Canada. Pretty much all the providers charge $15/day for roaming! No monthly plans available.

It doesn’t have to be BYOD. The firm might willing to procure a specific machine for her. Or she might have enough clout to make them get her what she wants.

“Row headers” seems wrong to me. Maybe “row labels”?

Rogers won’t let you use wifi calling to avoid the roaming charges. I’ve tried.

Canadian providers all charge about $15 a day to “roam like home”. For about $20 I can buy a 30 day 5GB data only plan for Europe. Getting a European phone number doubles the cost as most of those plans have much more data as well. You can buy the plans before you leave, download and install the eSIM so you’re ready to go when you arrive.

The wife and I both bought Pixel 7’s this year as they support eSIM. We’re in England right now. Our cost roaming would have been $600+. Only one of us needed a local phone number, and the has just data, and the cost was maybe $70.

I never expected to see a compiler in this list, at least not in 2023.

Back in 1988 I realized how rubbish Microsoft was when I discovered Borland’s Turbo Pascal and Turbo C compilers. I’d previously used the MS compilers and they were multipass, multi-minutes to finish a compile. The Borland ones were single pass and FAST.

Back then, compile times could be huge, and everyone was publishing benchmarks on compiled program performance, which mattered on the hardware of the day. I never even think about that stuff these days.

The head is shaped like a mushroom, so it cuts on the side and right on top. Unlike the others which are tube shaped.

I just tried it. It does a pretty good job, but I don’t have really furry ears.

That’s what I thought until I got that one. Then I realized what I had been missing all along. Marketing? Nope. Just sharing what I found to be good.

Every time I go back to Java I feel sad.

This is the ONE

I dunno. The title was “Are there really no viable alternatives to PhotoShop on Linux?”. I think it’s fair to say, “There’s GIMP”. It’s viable. People use it successfully and happily. 'Nuff said.

I always thought Timothy Zahn was an above average author, and to wrote more than a dozen of them.

I don’t get it either. I’ve been using it on some older laptops because I wanted something lighter weight. It works well for me.

My Pixel 7 has a call screening function. It asks the caller to identify themselves and why they are calling and shows the dialogue on the screen. Very cool.