downtide's comments

You say that, we stayed in a farmhouse in Ireland. Two rooms - one bedroom and the kitchen/sitting room, around a huge hearth. With the cowshed directly attached. Ours was vaguely modernised, hearth ripped out, small bathroom add-on. Without the warm hearth, the building started to suffer. If only these old stone cottages were insulated beneath and outside.

Small windows were a result of the window tax.

I love the heat-mass feeling, many old houses are reliant upon this, and when unheated the chimneys can get wet, smell damp, and wick moisture from below.

Knocking through on an L shaped terrace, to the kitchen, gives a little more room, but I for one hate the smell of cooking food escaping from the confines of a kitchen. The mass also wicks sound.

The floor plan shows a knock through, that's quite non-typical, non-original.

Just rename it to Boof!

There's Java and Javascript, heck, there is far worse out there.

Another good reason to pop out video. I hate watching it in the browser, I just want to send it to my preferred player.

That's horrible to know. How does something like the Chromecast do this then, if it is just a glorified browser?

I remember we were running Win XP and Server 2000 pre-millenium. We were donated a Win 3.1 machine, and were astounded how fast it booted. Or rather it's all rather relative.

Win 10 was pared down for phone use, and the energy tweaks were welcome.

Yep, managed an afternoon with 10, and I'm not one to usually give up, but due to my chipset not being supported which made shutting down difficult, I turned it off and have never booted that drive since. I have Win 8 and 8.1 on other devices, that have seen similar neglect. I have no desire to boot Windows at all. I've got a print queue stacking up mind.

In netscape the default background colour used to be black on light grey. I find that much easier on my eyes than black on white. Even a light yellow with dark green text. But given a dark room I like to switch the other way. See how you feel with a terminal/editor in different colour schemes. So bright room, bright scheme, dark room dark scheme. What I can't stand is flipping between the two modes. At night on a phone, some apps are incredibly painful to read. Even darkish flavours can be ruined with bright splash screens. There's just no consistency here.

I still use w3m, for basically an easier, less cluttered text based version of a page. Cuts the cpu goblins found in adverts too. Some sites just won't work for me in a modern browser without at least some blocking.

Personally I find w3m easier on my eyes. I have tried to run with it as my primary, but oddly enough some of the full baked browsers still feel faster. That I can't really figure out! It could be pre-fetching or pre-renders, or some other trick.

I tend to have at least one JS disabled browser, with my own stylesheet to ape something akin to the console browsers.

I had some old Dragon 32 tapes from days of old. And when the emu scene turned up, managed to record the tape onto the PC, play an unfinished game of my youth, snapshot it so I could cheat until I finally completed the damn thing. For all of like two minutes I was king.

It is a luxury item. In the UK dairy and meat get subsidised. A pack of sausages cost the same as a red pepper. Go figure!

At the same time farmers here moan that they aren't getting enough money per pint. They are at a loss.

Meanwhile some luxury oat milk costs £1.80 a litre. The plant milks are a nightmare when you consider transportation. Be nicer to have local bottling of these alternatives. At least traditionally dairy farms were a little more localised and smaller.

Exactly. Composer is key here. Pear just didn't work well as a third party bolt on. As a result monolithic frameworks such as Zend Framework were born, along with Blogs, come CMS come frameworks. And Rails clones. It's still hard to navigate the 3rd party landscape, but integration is so much easier.

My main gripe with Php is editor support. Jumping around a code base is hard when you introduce slightly abstract class loading. The more 'typed' the language is, I guess makes editor help easier, with auto completion etc. But that is a disjoint or me.

Editor support for functions is useful. I'm slightly embarassed still at the frequency of my manual lookups.

Class autoloading is nice, but functions are left by the wayside on the autoloading front, which is a bit gnarly.

The language is actually quite quick to learn, and you can hold a lot in your head. You can do a lot just with arrays and foreachs, without having to reach into convenience functions.

Most of my time is laboured over other frameworks and interoperability, rather than any really worry about Php itself.

Due to a broken oven, I've ended up using a breadmaker, and although the results are middle of the road, the simplicity of making a loaf is super. Just throw in the ingredients, set timer, wake to the smell of cooking bread. The kneading is a bit weedy and I get better results by hand. But the breadmaker makes no mess at all.

I can't seem to right scroll under firefox. What am I doing wrong?

Just tried out Tree style tabs, how does this prevent this issue? I have two pages in two tabs open. To read one I resize the window, I go to the other it has been resized also.

Nope, problem is each window may need a different sizing. With a tabbed interface you resize the lot.

Easy to read/follow menu, and a phone call isn't that hard, with front door payment.

Online shopping experiences vary widely. I love it when the interface isn't even noticed/gets out of your way.

There's other cognitive issues here. I find reading from the screen difficult, CRT, LED, OLED, but I'm fine given e-ink. Any web pages with text more than a paragraph or so is sent to an e-reader for me, otherwise I just cannot comprehend the content. I can cope with snippets.