Well, there's literally a site called "down detector" which is independent and relies on people reporting a site as being unavailable for them.

Caveat: No ads on the site, so they're probably in the business of building profiles on the people who use their sites.

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One way to fight back is to try to get the video ID of the advertisement from the debug info, go to the video directly and leave a dissatisfied comment. This will work until they hide that ID anyway. Or the advertiser turns off comments. At that point we're left with sending our disapproval in other public forums, preferably the more public the better.

"Your ad was shown to me on a pause screen where I don't want to see ads. As such I will ensure that I do not purchase your products for the foreseeable future and that I will recommend that friends and relatives do the same. Thank you for participating in YouTube customer feedback."

There was that one bash.org quote where a script kiddie was given 127.0.0.1 as part of an "oh yeah I dare you" taunt after he said he could hack anyone, and he fell for it hook line and sinker. He was posting things like "Hahaha your K drive is being deleted! Now your H drive! [connection reset by peer]" and right after that the challenger was like "I don't even have a K drive."

(RIP bash.org though. I would have tried to link it otherwise)

Trying to figure out what they're trying to say with "British educated". It's the Mail, so is this dog-whistling that we're supposed to be proud of what she did, or is it more that we "shouldn't be letting these foreigners in" to get an education here?

Or is it hedging bets both ways, because that wouldn't surprise me either.

FWIW, a certain Osama bin Laden was British-educated too. He went to Oxford.

95% of all "Introduction to " books tend to dedicate the first couple of chapters to the fundamentals but with a specific bias towards the language in question. Seek out a few of those at a library or online equivalent and you'll start to see patterns cropping up.

Anything that doesn't have that bias is likely to use pseudocode which looks like a programming language anyway.

Object orientation works around the concept that things in the program "know" things about themselves and how to do things for themselves rather than have some other part of the program do things to them. Commonly you'll see things like doSomethingWith(someObject) being the non-OO way and someObject.doSomething being the OO way. That is, in the latter someObject contains the knowledge of how to doSomething, and the dot notation urges it to do whatever it is.

For a silly but more concrete example, x ← 2 + 2 is non-OO, but x ← 2.add(2) is at least partially OO because the first 2 is expected to know how to add another 2 to itself and give out the correct answer. Presumably in whatever language that is, someone has created a method for numbers to know what to do when told to add. The other 2 doesn't really get a say in things. We might also have, say, elephant.putOn(hat), but it might not be possible to hat.putOn(elephant) because no-one thought to teach the hat how to wear things, let alone elephants.

Bugs Bunny has a lot to answer for.

I mean, it's a reasonable correlation if not a connection. Inaction is often cheaper than action, in time, effort, and money, and beard basically grows itself.

Rest assured that they've already had that idea a dozen times already, and if they thought they could make it stick, they would have done so by now.

Mental health problems by any chance? He may need more help than family can provide if you want him to get back on his feet (and out the door).

It would be a good sign if he seems like he wants to get his own place again, even if he's not able to make steps towards it.

Source: I'd probably be in the same boat if the laws and property upkeep rules were stricter here. Even so, I'd be wanting to get out of family accommodation ASAP. My family are good people, but I can't spend long periods with them. There might be a hint or two in that somewhere.

(But whatever you do, please don't fail to be kind.)

Most of the old buildings (usually churches / cathedrals) here have been built upon and changed over the centuries so what you see above ground is still old, but it's not - at least comparatively - ancient.

I'm in England. I may or may not be in a town that has something like that, but even the places that don't have something are within a couple of hours' drive of somewhere that does.

I will say that where I am is listed in the Domesday book, but that isn't saying much to be fair.

Sounds like a job for a USB trial run on a rainy weekend when you're not doing anything else.

Nvidia supply OEM drivers for the Debian family (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint), if not others, assuming the open-source drivers don't cut it for you. Microcode updates are released for both Intel and AMD.

You'll probably run into issues with some games. Things are getting better on Linux, slowly and steadily, but many games are written specifically for Windows with no Linux port available. Steam's store, for example, shows which games are SteamOS compatible, which usually means they'll run on Linux too.

For other games it's worth checking the Internet - e.g. www.protondb.com to see if anyone else has a particular game running under Linux. You're probably aware that there are programs that attempt to provide some layer of Windows behaviour that form part of the solution. Some of the solutions may or may not involve command line use.