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    BBC allowed to charge licence

    Found it, as soon as I found the right story other facts jumped out of memory, it was Switzerland. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-politics/swiss-vote-on-licence-fee-tax-reform-cash-and-climate/91045322
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    BBC allowed to charge licence

    No idea, never read the story, just noticed a couple of words here and there as I skimmed past. I read a lot of news and sometimes bits and pieces that I didn't take any notice of show up in my memory. I'm one of those weirdos that learns by osmosis. :)
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    BBC allowed to charge licence

    Australia's the same as Canada with our ABC, I think ours is a little better funded and supported than yours though going by news content. Just In The UK isn't the only country that charges a fee or has a television license system though. Just the other day I read a story about a country who's...
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    Linux Distro-Hopping Adventures!

    And a big tip for people making custom Wine prefixes: You only have to get it right once. Once you've got a prefix running the programs you want copy it to another drive as a back up. But better still, you can just copy that same prefix in to any other Linux system and as long as wine is...
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    Linux Distro-Hopping Adventures!

    Some older games have fanbase made patch files to get them to display in 16:9 but there's not many of them. Some games will also let you play in Windowed Mode instead of Full Screen, when you do this the aspect ratio will be correct but I find playing games in a window a little distracting. Not...
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    Linux Distro-Hopping Adventures!

    An example of a Wine prefix for Win98 games. This will create a 32 bit prefix in your home folder called .wineWin98, and naturally in order to do this you must also have the 32 bit version of Wine installed. Except for the last one with a bogus example path you can just use the mouse to copy and...
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    Linux Distro-Hopping Adventures!

    Yep. I got used to seeing them stretched to fit my monitor. There's more than just simple games in there. 0 AD is one I play often, a war strategy game a little similar to the old Age of Empires but with a much better game engine and far better graphics. Widelands is another one I play quite...
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    Linux Distro-Hopping Adventures!

    If I was still into programming I'd still be using Fedora because of how up to date all it's libraries are, my only issue with Fedora is that there's no long term service version so you have to keep upgrading your system at least every 18 months. For simple ease and convenience with gaming I...
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    (30M) I'm relatively ugly and I'd like some advice

    You were being bullied. That's the main aim of a bully - to make you doubt yourself, to break down your self confidence and take away your self determination, to turn you in to a victim. Some do it with violence, some do it with social vilification and some go for the psychological attack, but...
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    Any fellow Linux users on here?

    What distro you're using and how up to date it's libraries are makes a huge difference. For many years I was a big fan of Fedora but I went off of them in favour of Ubuntu's LTS versions. But when I bought a new laptop about 18 months ago Ubuntu couldn't recognise it's built in Intel graphics...
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    Planet Names

    I could never remember what Tuesday is. :) You're right though, Norse not Roman. Mind you, from where I live they're all sort of the same place. ;)
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    Planet Names

    Because the Romans and Greeks were considered to be the peak of civilisation back when the planets were first really discovered and they believed the brighter "stars" were manifestations of the gods. Our days of the week are also named after those very same gods although the way we say them has...
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    does life happen to you? or do you happen to life?

    I grew up with a sort of similar bit advice from my great grandmother, an old Geordie woman who'd had a hard life and was as tough as old boots. "If you don't like something, change it. And if you can't change it there's no point whingeing to me about it." I very much doubt she got that from...
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    does life happen to you? or do you happen to life?

    I learned not to be a victim when I was still fairly young, not to people and not to the world itself. Sometimes life dishes up some pretty hard knocks but I roll with the punches and keep going. Sometimes beaten physically but never mentally.
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    Any fellow Linux users on here?

    This is usually the biggest difference between different distros, what they've got available in their repositories and how up to date their systems are. A tool I find much more useful than the modern graphical apps is Synaptic Package Manager. In there you get to see every package available in...
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    Japanese domestic market AM radio

    You do still get rulers with both scales on them here but they're not as common as they used to be. We went metric more than 50 years ago and many of the younger generations only have a very vague idea of what an inch is.
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    Why do so many aspies have an intense hatred for sports (excepting martial arts and brainy games)?

    I was 20 years old before I ever saw snow but I tried skiing and loved it. Ended up destroying a knee but no regrets, it was worth it. You only get to live once. I was very active when I was young, not that you'd know it these days, but always individual pursuits. Swimming, surfing, skiing...
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    Japanese domestic market AM radio

    To me it's just as fascinating seeing a ruler with inches on it. :)
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    Does your physical appearance match your inner view of yourself?

    When I was young my looks were an asset that I managed quite carefully most of the time. As I aged my looks diminished but so too did my ability to care about that. No, I never felt uncomfortable seeing myself in the mirror and I still don't.
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    Post something Weird or Random

    Colloquially a small aluminium boat here is known as a Tinny, deliberately the same slang term we use for a can of beer. The two often go together hand in hand. :) I imagine that course changes every year too because rivers never sit still, what's navigable one year might not be the next. The...
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