Fish and chips are kinda okay.

As is well known, the soul is located under the bladder, for a great weight is lifted from it upon urination.

I don’t know how you manage to keep being confused about this whole deal. When you buy a disk, you don’t care what’s in the empty space. You format it as an encrypted disk by writing a few sectors. When you want to throw it out, you delete the keys that decrypt what you wrote over the life of the disk, and perhaps wipe the sectors containing encryption metadata. What is unclear about this?

Besides, when the disk is configured as encrypted, the junk in the empty sectors can’t be read by decrypting it. Unless it’s software encryption and you bypass it by poking the disk directly, you can’t read anything from those sectors. Which, again, contain either noise, or what the possible previous owner has written there.

Not whom you asked, but in my experience and from what I’ve read on the webs, WD’s reliability is a coin toss. Some drives keep chugging for years and years, other ones croak too soonish.

You don’t need to encrypt empty disk space. Formatting a disk only writes some data structures here and there, leaving vast majority of the disk unchanged.

Not really, Chromium’s version just increased by one with every release. It’s kinda the same as the second number in the semver designation.

Well, Liberation Sans is nothing much to look at. I myself prefer humanist typefaces, particularly with noticeable variation in stroke widths. I’d use Rosario everywhere I can, only its kerning is wonky.

These days font marketplaces on the web spell out the allowed use for each typeface quite clearly, so I guess it’s a good thing we’re out of the dark ages of font law.

Helvetica was very popular for its unapologetically modernist and neutral look, such that its overuse was criticized even before Arial swooped in — it was particularly widespread in corporate and government design. Microsoft cloned Helvetica as Arial so as to not pay for the licensing, but Arial is disliked by typeface designers for details which elude me (just like other MS fonts). Of course, Arial dominated home and office printing and web design ever since, as it was readily available. Apple licenses Helvetica proper and ships it in MacOS.

If you mean that DejaVu Sans is an analogue of Helvetica/Arial, that’s not so. The DejaVu fonts are derived from Bitstream Vera, and the Sans variation is wider than Helvetica. It’s also somewhat humanist, as opposed to Helvetica’s strictly grotesque look.

Liberation Sans and Nimbus Sans seem to be the best-known open-licensed metrically-compatible analogues of Helvetica, although Liberation doesn’t recreate the look. Nimbus is also the basis for FreeSans.

As for embedding fonts, afaiu it depends on the license.

I mean, Helvetica is also proprietary, like the majority of typefaces. Iirc there are some metrically-compatible open clones, though.

Eh? Perhaps I’m missing the joke, but Arial is a clone of Helvetica, which latter has been around since 1957.

Maybe you’re referring to Helvetica Neue, idk.

90 minutes is the average sleep cycle, but it varies between people. Some need to find their own cycle time. Phone apps that use the accelerometer to detect tossing and turning can help with that.

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So you’re just an emptyhead who flaps the mouth but can’t answer when asked an actual question. Nice to know. As I said, you’re not a power user, you simply chose one readymade system instead of another. Never pipe up again about how things are for power users.

I seem to have developed some kind of ADHD in adulthood, while also avoiding caffeine in recent years. Now, if I drink two cups of coffee, I come to four fours later with fifty new tabs in the browser, the system deeply in swap, two new projects started and abandoned, and nothing actually done. If I’m lucky, some system reconfiguration that I’ve been putting off for months, will finally be made.

There are actually quite enough designated spots where they may appear, from the armpits to the crotch.

Metal is also better when one gets outside the genre boundaries. Mamaleek play metal like nobody else, and hearing them was like discovering Music 2.

‘Oruchuban Ebichu’. Peak adult anime, you don’t need anything else. It’s also short and to the point.

And of course, ‘Ghost in the Shell’ is an all-time classic.

And Android is as full-featured as a desktop?

Jobs was pretty much describing iPad as what computers would be like ‘in the future’ in interviews in the eighties. It was his vision for ages. IPhones and iPads allowed more people to use computers than all desktop OSes combined.

And again, what does this have to do with the processor? You people just jump at any opportunity to mention how you hate Apple?

Who said anything anything phones specifically? You pulled some random criterion out of your ass.

And by this logic, Google also doesn’t let you run desktop OSes on phone CPUs, because their phones don’t do some random thing that you saw somewhere.

“Won’t let it” by putting it in a Macbook and running MacOS on it?