TBF I for one want to code to install an app. By which I mean use Ansible.

Wine has some compatibility differences between its versions — I’ve had to downgrade it before because the newer version didn’t work with the app I wanted. So, if you’re ever in the mood to try again, you could check out an older version, and perhaps try launching a simpler app like notepad which is iirc supplied with Wine.

Also, Wine launched from the command line, with the exe as the parameter, usually prints a lot of stuff some of which may say what libraries weren’t found, and winetricks allows installing those libraries easily (if it’s still around, I haven’t done this in a while). Typically something like ‘MS C++ redistributables’ or the .NET framework is necessary.

called Arabic Numerals because that’s their origin

While the origin of Arabic numerals is actually Indian.

What are you gonna be improving in fifty-year-old classics?

Not only we had compilers to z-code for a long time, but in fact first third-party languages for the z-machine were better than Infocom’s own, which was discovered from their leaked code. So I’d guess reversing the bytecode isn’t a problem either for a while now.

Considering that afaik they were shipped in Z-code, the game code was already visible to any Z-machine implementation and to whoever wanted to fiddle with raw Z-code.

Yall people have micrometer-thin skin.

P.S. Your downvotes will definitely disprove my point, keep 'em coming!

‘ß’ is in fact a digraph of the long ‘s’ and ‘ʒ’, i.e. tailed ‘z’.

The person in the screenshot replied to one such comment that ‘ð’ fell out of use in English by the Middle Ages or by Early Modern English, I forget which — while the thorn remained yet.

Thanks again! This is very comprehensive and much more comprehensible.

Thanks, but as a non-quite-EU person I’d like you to know I understood your comment fine until a bit after the second comma in the second sentence, following which my grokking declined sharply to just the surface level when met with a bunch of peculiar terms forming a mighty wall of obstruction to my comprehending.

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Just FYI, take a look at how YNAB works — which is a paid app, but with a great approach: you track your spending for a while, and then basically always know how much you can spend on various categories of things. Idk what the workflow is in modern budgeting apps, but back in the day YNAB was rather different from the more typical accounting-type software like GNUCash. One of its tenets is that you don’t spend money which you don’t actually have, i.e. the credit card debt.

That one is pretty good, though the Roman numerals are rather busy and uneven.

This one is closer, though now I have to wonder if all non-square rectangular clocks have an old-timey whiff for me, or it’s just the border here:

This is also impressive:

I dig the square clock, and am now sad that the numbers can’t be put into the corners on a real clock. Unless they’re shifted from the usual position.

Only a blind man could think that MacOS’ design approach is the same as KDE’s.

Yeah sure. One needs to wade through dialogs for three days every time they want to change something, that’s the Windows and KDE way!

TIL the amount of things to twiddle is a ‘cosmetic difference’.

Super Ultra Windows 11’ X Turbo Hyper Fighting Plus Extra Special Champion Edition Revival: The World Warrior New Challengers Tournament Battle Grand Master Challenge

Yeah, that scrollbar on KDE doesn’t inspire confidence.