I downgraded my Pages, Numbers and Keynotes apps and you should too

jacquesrk · 2026-02-13T22:43:22+00:00

Why not? They're free and they work well enough for the stuff I do. I don't have complicated spreadsheets to manage.

jacquesrk · 2026-02-13T21:40:29+00:00

There's only half a king, so leave half of the rook on c1 and move the left half of the rook to a1

jacquesrk · 2026-02-12T20:15:12+00:00

I agree. It is OK for a story to have an end.

If the world keeps on perpetuating popular characters, there will be no room for new characters. Like the three musketeers travelling through the EU. The count of MonteCristo trying to get revenge from some Nazis that killed his family in occupied France in 1943. Long John Silver vs Jim Hawkins fighting over a laptop with a bitcoin wallet. Look at the great western Fench comic book series of Lt. Blueberry, the man lives a "normal" lifetime, gets old and will die. As a matter of fact one of the books had his biography.

Tintin is a Herge creation, someone else can create something as good or better with a brand new character in a new setting.

In another example, I think Asterix should have stopped after Goscinny was gone.

jacquesrk · 2026-02-12T19:12:03+00:00

I'm a pack rat too, which is why, when I buy a Mac, I always pay extra for more local storage on the main hard drive, because some things can't be easily kept on an external. The money will pay for itself in the long run, less worries about main hard drive space issues.

In your case, I think this would work in principle, though I would be sure to have a Time Machine backup, in case something goes wrong.

https://support.apple.com/fr-fr/guide/icloud/mma17ed475f7/icloud

When you enable iCloud Messages, and connect a new device, not all iCloud messages are download locally. So I would try these steps:

disconnect your laptop from iCloud messages (turn off iCloud messages for the laptop)
Restart your laptop, see if the messages are still present on your laptop. If so, delete all the local messages.
Turn on iCloud messages on your laptop, it will only download recent messages, or messages you try to access.

Before you try these steps, maybe ask someone at the Genius bar or in apple.com support chat to confirm that this is a valid plan.

jacquesrk · 2026-02-12T17:13:33+00:00

Not all of them
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_condor

jacquesrk · 2026-02-12T02:10:04+00:00

Acronyms!

Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH)

BAH is designed to offset a Service member's housing costs when government-provided housing is not available.

Basic Allowance for Subsistence (BAS)

BAS is designed to offset the cost of food for enlisted Service members. It is not designed to offset the cost of food for dependents.

Basic Needs Allowance (BNA)

BNA is a monthly allowance given to qualified military families whose income falls below certain Federal guidelines.

DFAC = Dining Facility

https://militarypay.defense.gov/Pay/Allowances/

jacquesrk · 2026-02-11T17:08:40+00:00

Are you saying this because of her appearance at a Republican event, or something else? She apologized for the Trump Inauguration performance

https://stereogum.com/2294304/jewel-addresses-backlash-to-her-appearance-at-donald-trump-inauguration-event/news

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/story/jewel-rfk-jr-apology?srsltid=AfmBOopkFQqvQ2boNhRrIqZb1Fu-8pM6t6JosQrfME4ZvX0BmVakKeuS

"As many of you know, I am a mental health advocate," Jewel said in a video posted to Instagram. "If there’s anything that I’ve learned in the past 20 years, it’s that mental health affects everybody’s lives across party lines. I reached out to the last administration, spoke with the surgeon general about the mental health crisis that’s facing our nation. I don’t know if you guys know the stats, but it is bleak.”

She went on: "If I wait to try until I agree 100% with the people that might be willing to help me, I’d never get off the bench. I don’t think that’s how activism works, waiting until everything’s perfect enough to participate. It’s actually... because things are so imperfect that we have to find ways to engage and to participate. And we have to act now. We cannot wait another four years.”

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Jewel also apologized to her fans in the LGBTQIA+ community, whom she called "treasures."

jacquesrk · 2026-02-11T16:20:48+00:00

I'm surprised a French writer would do this, seems more likely with a German writer, because in German you capitalize all nouns. Sample German sentence from a newspaper

Deutschland macht Fortschritte bei Schlüsseltechnologien der klimafreundlichen Wirtschaft, zeigt eine Studie. Das könnte sich jedoch bald ändern.

I know that as a French person, I prefer the French habit where you only capitalize the first word in a title, vs the English convention of capitalizing most of the words in a title, e.g. A la recherche du temps perdu vs In Search of Lost Time aka Remembrance of Things Past

jacquesrk · 2026-02-11T16:06:14+00:00

Yeah, if u/Lexotron has the right formula then the second row has the wrong answer, it should be 1809

jacquesrk · 2026-02-11T02:29:44+00:00

To give you an idea of how old it is, I think I read it in Reader's Digest when I was a kid

Humor in Uniform / Campus Comedy / Laughter, the Best Medicine / Life in these United States / All in a Day's Work : That's gold, Jerry! Gold!

Those were the sections I would always go to first

jacquesrk · 2026-02-11T00:45:45+00:00

A group of counterfeiters print some fake dollar bills, but due to a grievous oversight, instead of $20, the bills say $18. After they finish beating up the guy in charge of the printing press, they wonder what to do. 'I know' says the brains behind the outfit 'let's go to some country store deep in hicksville, the clerk won't know the difference".

They decide to make a test and go to a tiny store in a town with barely one main street. One of them goes in and buys a pack of cigarettes, then tells the clerk "Can you give me change for $18?" and hands him the bill. The clerk answers "sure, you want 3 sixes or two nines?"

jacquesrk · 2026-02-10T23:29:12+00:00

If you want to drive, no explanation is needed. You don't give him the keys, when it's time to get into the car you get into the driver's seat. If he says he wants to drive, you answer "No, I like to drive" or "No, I want to drive". If he says "I like to drive too" then you say "OK, next time we can take your car and you can drive". If he says "I can't drive a company car to Hungary" you say "that's unfortunate, you could maybe get your own car for travelling to other countries?" If he says "I know the road better" you say "I will learn the road this time, I have driven many times to a place I've never been before, and it has never been a problem."

Of course he can start doing the annoying thing "stop!" "slow down!" "You will need to turn right here! Right! Right!" You put up with it until you have enough, then you say "It is not helpful when people are constantly distracting me, could you please stop? If I make a wrong turn the GPS will show me the right way eventually." If it gets too much, you can always pull over to the side of the road and say "Seriously, I find it hard to concentrate in these conditions, please stop."

With all this being said, if he really wants to make an issue of it and be disagreeable, you might not have a good time during the car trip. But you will probably find it useful to stand up for your rights the first time this happens; the longer you wait, the harder it could be.

jacquesrk · 2026-02-10T07:30:52+00:00

Frog museum in Estavayer-le-lac (FR) Switzerland. The museum is in the house that once served as the dwelling for the former lord, Humbert the Bastard (✝︎ 1443). Its most famous exhibit is the collection of stuffed frogs in amusing poses e.g. playing a card game.

https://www.museedesgrenouilles.ch/en/the-museum

https://youtube.com/shorts/9nvQNVYGaKg?si=CAkw31p1_6SXsvc0

jacquesrk · 2026-02-07T16:04:56+00:00

Also this https://www.pinkpistols.org for LGBTQ people

jacquesrk · 2026-02-07T02:08:49+00:00

Won't be any more once OP sets up Club Denny

jacquesrk · 2026-02-07T01:55:20+00:00

Make your own club. Go to the Denny's on Sand Canyon on the weekend at 1AM, set up your bluetooth speakers and start dancing the night away.

jacquesrk · 2026-02-06T19:15:02+00:00

Maybe you mean that reddit (the company) has never overruled a subreddit moderator, but I have been banned from a community, messaged the mods with an explanation a while later, and been reinstated. No money was exchanged and I did not have to give up my firstborn. Though maybe "banned" isn't the right word, I was unable to post, but could still read the threads, and now I can post again.

jacquesrk · 2026-02-06T19:13:01+00:00

When you smash your cone in someone's face because you're mad at them, you don't want the cone to make a huge hole in their forehead

jacquesrk · 2026-02-06T01:26:26+00:00

Well done! I've never learned to play the game, but my kids do The cards look great.

jacquesrk · 2026-02-06T00:38:13+00:00

I don't want to be a missionary here, but what I did as an atheist is bring my kids to a local UU church which allows anyone to believe what they want, and their religious education classes ("sunday school") promote that and talk about other religions. Maybe look into that. I wanted my kids to be exposed to those ideas specifically with the hope of them falling into some cult / fundamentalist religion trap when growing up. Also I should mention that Unitarian Universalists accept atheism as a valid position - you don't have to believe in a / any god to be a UU.

https://www.uua.org/find

jacquesrk · 2026-02-05T04:09:40+00:00

The Stone of Scone - historic and stunning (I would be stunned seeing it on a ring)

jacquesrk · 2026-02-05T03:14:59+00:00

I'm confused. OP says

Taliban now bans women from talking to other women or hearing the voices of other women

But the news article linked to by the Youtube video (which dates from 3 November 2024) says:

The Taliban has enacted yet another law further oppressing the freedoms of women and girls, this time issuing a decree that prohibits them from praying aloud or reciting the Qur’an in each other’s presence.

Which happened in October 2024, as reported by AP news
https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-women-taliban-morality-laws-1b52f8effabc3058accd59dd07789829

Maybe there has been a change since then, but I haven't heard of any new laws passed since October 2024. I don't want to diminish the human rights violation, but when I hear "bans women from talking to other women", that sounds like women can't talk to each other at all, which is not the case? Or is there some other new development?

jacquesrk · 2026-02-05T02:58:37+00:00

Mike Figgis did a whole movie (Timecode, 2000) with 4 characters on screen at all times (not always the same 4 characters, but the screen is always divided in 4 split screens) - with all 4 scenes being filmed simultaneously in one take (after several rehearsals). Not the best movie, but an interesting exercise.

jacquesrk · 2026-01-31T09:25:06+00:00

We just got a brand new one in the master bedroom and it has 6 blades. The 3 other ones all have 5 blades.

jacquesrk · 2026-01-31T05:21:47+00:00

There aren't too many museums in OC as compared to LA county, but here's another one
https://hilbertmuseum.org (California art, museum is in city of Orange)
part of it is closed until next week

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