Oh, I feel like I’ve gotta let you know the (post 2003/7?) Microsoft formats are technically “open” in that the spec is available for anyone to implement, license free

They saw ODF coming and made sure to kneecap any advantage

#3 is an incredibly recent development. You don’t need to go back even half a decade before everyone was happily gargling Microsoft

Microsoft had an almost total stranglehold on Office productivity software for about 3 decades, only their formats really mattered. I think they still have over 3/4 of business & enterprise market share.

Google’s productivity suite is probably in 2nd place in terms of usage today (much more popular than office outside of business) which I believe doesn’t have an external file format, followed by either LibreOffice (via OpenOffice, the originator of ODF) or maybe even the Apple suite.

Essentially the support isn’t super ubiquitous because, especially until recently, the percentage of documents created in that format is quite small compared to the Microsoft formats

HDHomerun is the commercial solution that is relatively painless assuming you have something that can run a client that supports it

Open source, you probably want to look at tvheadend and a USB DVB-T tuner (hauppauge still make decent ones I believe) attached as the next most straightforward option, it can take a little bit to get set up but it’s pretty seamless once it is. Same caveat about clients

Do we reckon this is the regular wonk or a new one

Frankly, pretty cheap for a coffin, I believe

I wonder if it’s second hand

I don’t think that’s a requirement

It may be that you’re under-extracting it, a finer grind size would be the next thing to try.

Another thing to highlight is that lighter roasts have more acidity, so it may also be the beans you’ve got

Sleeping well (no bad dreams) No paranoia

I don’t know if I’m typical, but neither desktop or laptop are ever fully off for me under normal circumstances, sleep mode is the default

A number of banks here used to use a system like this a couple of decades ago. You’d get a card reader-calculator thing like in the pictures and there was a similar challenge-response flow. I’ve got no idea if they are even supported any more; I’ve definitely not seen one in a long time.

I remember “I’ll transfer you back when I can get my reader at home” and similar was not uncommon to hear

I wish

Rounded up on the 8h we’re supposed to get as I’m assuming these people aren’t going to bed with wet hair

Pretty Prince Andrew behaviour ngl

Most of us sweat, I think if you plan to interact with another person, it’s kinda basic decorum to not start your day with 10h of sweat on you already.

The world was just not ready

This kinda reads as a list of things an obviously butthurt person would say

A chunk of them would just be pretty hilarious to say to me as an obviously big guy

Tax is the compromise

The French have a good historical case for what should happen if that fails

“military grade” sounds way cooler to idiots than “commercial grade”

Relatable

Now, I know one of the reasons Piefed exists and has had success is down to how people don’t like the political views of the main Lemmy devs.

That said, I’ve gotta be honest, the personal opinions of the Piefed dev seem to have a much more tangible impact on the software than the other guys. This is definitely not the first instance of subjective default post filtering being built into the software.

Given the demographics of the fediverse I’m surprised this kind of clandestine moderation hasn’t had more of a pushback.

Sadly they don’t seem to trade in the UK and a bit of a Google has led me to believe it’s quite a niche thing here!

Gap in the market there for someone I reckon, though maybe we have smaller freezers on average here or something that means it’s less likely to succeed.

At any rate, I know I’d definitely keep a soup in the freezer for an easy meal if I could readily get them

(Yes I realise there’s nothing stopping me putting a fridge soup in the freezer, maybe I do that)

Huh, I’ve never heard of frozen soup you can buy

In the UK it’s either tinned (basically Heinz or Baxter’s, people don’t really buy Campbell’s here) or increasingly more likely a fridge soup from a plastic tub or a carton.

I pretty much always go for the fridge soups these days, but (probably due to nostalgia) some days all you want is a tin of Heinz tomato soup