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@retoor

The case of that Dutch restaurant sounds plausible. There used to be a Thai restaurant in my town that did the same—charging extra if customers left a significant amount of food on their plates. It makes sense, really. Sure, everyone leaves a bit now and then, but when someone leaves a full or even half a portion, they've clearly overloaded their plate without considering the cost and effort to prepare the food, or the environmental impact. After all, you're paying for "all you can eat", not "all you can eat, plus a portion you can't".

I love dark chocolate too. So much that my very first "homepage" (as web sites were called back then) was on the topic of chocolate. Another sweet that I use to get a craving for is salt liquorice, very typical to the Nordic countries, while most non-Nordic hate it. I love it but sadly, liquorice is not good for the blood pressure.

@antigermanist That's some interesting cooking/defecating skills your gf has. I've never considered shit as something that could be even remotely delicious. On the contrary.

@TerriToniAX

Sadly, it only worked for a while. I believe some group policy or something messed it up, so now everything opens in tabs again. Fuck, Edge is so annoying!

@divinedragon

Don't get me wrong. I love VS Code. It's the GitHub Copilot plugin that I hate. I've already tried dragging it and no, it can't be dragged the way you can drag the seach panel or any other panel in VS Code. It just doesn't work and GitHub don't bother to fix it.

The 5 cent extra is totally worth it, for an upgrade to a golden retriever.

@donkulator

*lol* I'm somewhere in between, neither a player nor a complete bozo. I'm a regular bloke, I suppose :)

BTW, forgot to update that Chat GPT works again in Waterfox. Some temporary glitch, I suppose.

@retoor and @just8littleBit

@feuerherz

Ah, but it still behaves like Chrome in other aspects, like opening new windows in tabs instead of windows, and having an "omnibox" (or whatever it's called) instead of a proper address box and a proper search box. So there, that's the answer to why not to use Chromium.

Thanks for sharing this lovely post about your new girlfriend. Congratulations! It sounds like you've really found the one for you.

I sense that some comments above are a bit scornful. Just ignore them - they are just jealous.

I don't even know you, but I can totally relate to what you're feeling right now. I met my gf when I was 34, and she was 26. So young, but so wise, in many ways more mature than me. And now, 17 years and two kids later, we're still very much in love! 💗

I'm genuinely happy for you and wish you and your new girlfriend a long and happy relationship.

@feuerherz

Doesn't that behave the same as Edge?

@Biggy

Thank you so much! 😃 I tried Custom New Tab and it totally solves the problem. You saved my day 👍

@Lensflare Well put!

Before you ask, I'm only using Edge at work and the only reason I'm using it is that Confluence, another poor piece of software, doesn't work in Firefox. An obvious downside of working at a fairly big company with group policies and such, is that I as an indivual don't get to choose the tools that are best suited for the job. I would begin by throwing away almost everything from Microsoft, Atlassian, IBM, SAP, Adobe and Jabra.

@Root Call me insane, but I just happen to like VS Code and appreciate the built-in AI chat Cursor offers. I don't like CoPilot as much, though, mainly because the chat is shown in the left sidebar, hiding away the explorer, and there seems to be no way to make it show to the right. In addition, CoPilot's support has failed to offer a viable solution to the problem. I remember Vim vaguely, I think I had it on the Amiga. I might have a look at Vim some day.

@retoor and @AlgoRythm

You mean "Private Window"? I just tried that and no difference. You're right there can be event listeners or some of the ancestors, but I checked that too. The only event listener there is, is DocumentOnLoaded on the <html> element. And that does, in turn, not add any click event listeners. I'm using Waterfox and haven't experienced this sort of problems with Chat GPT before. Perhaps Open AI suddenly decided to block Waterfox out, as it actually works in Firefox.

@just8littleBit

You're probably single because you're trying too hard not to be. When looking for love, one tends to be looking for the wrong person and in the wrong places. Stop looking for love and it will strike when you least expect it :)

And now, with the latest update, Cursor defaulted to auto suggesting code as you type, which irritates the hell out of me! It feels as if all Cursor users are expected to be idiots who can't write their own code, but need some numbshunk bot every step on their way. Took me a while to figure out how to disable this nuisance called "cursor tabs". Cursor, if you want to teach rookies to write code, why don't you release a student edition of Cursor with all these bells and whistles enabled by default, and leave the rest of us alone! If I want Cursor to write code for me, I ask for it in the chat, but I don't want the source editor to fucking interfere with my typing!

@retoor

Whom are you asking and what does your question mean?

@donkulator To the right of the button element, alongside with the tag labelled "flex", there would be another tag labelled "event".

Actually, opening a new window when opening a new window is correct web semantics. I loathe this overuse of tabs in so-called "modern" web browsers, where they seem to think everyone wants to open everything in tabs. I don't like tabs. They just hide content away.

@Lensflare Precisely!

@retoor

I agree. At a consultant company where I worked, for a short while before changing to my current job, we used Slack and it was actually quite OK for a chat. I don't use chats in general as they are distracting, just like phones. But for short text-based meetings they can come in handy. We're not using any chat at my current job. There's the one in Teams but its UX is horrible, even worse than Jira. Most of our written communication takes place in either Jira or by e-mail.

@retoor Atlassian are doing that weird shit. I don't like products from Atlassian. Jira and Confluence have too many bells and whistles, evidently to cater for the needs of people with ADHD who can't live without a cluttered screen. Back in the really old days, on 8-bit home computers, screens were small (usually 320*200 pixels), memory was small (somewhere between 10 and 28K freely allocable RAM) and processors were slooow (a few *mega*hertz), and multitasking wasn't even a known concept to the common user. Perhaps these limitations were a blessing in disguise as any user interface tended to be extremely clean and simple, focusing on a few details at a time.

Follow your heart. You may not have much money, but you will be rich with experience and purpose. Bon voyage!

This is what I'm talking about.

I've clearly disabled cache in Firefox (highlighted in green), yet Firefox doesn't automatically reload content when reloading the page, but instead I need to open the developer console, choose the Networking tab and manually click "Uppdatera" (Update) to reload the content. I mean...we...what...why...how is this sort of idiocy supposed to be helpful to a developer? Just reload the fucking page and all of its content every time so I can immediately see the effect of any code change I've made! I don't care if it takes a few more milliseconds! Just screw the fucking cache already!

@retoor

Sure, if you're coding for an environment where you have full control. But how do you suggest you do this in, say, a web application where the browser takes care of all that? No, I'm talking about caching in general and nowadays I find myself coding in high-level languages in friendly and "helpful" environments where everything from memory allocation to garbage collection and caching, not to mention graphics, happens magically under the hood. Don't get me wrong, I do appreciate the simplicity of modern programming and don't want to go back to Assembler or even C, but the downside is, of course less control. Caching in general, and especially in web browsers, is one of the things that can drive med mad! In Firefox, it doesn't even help to check the "Disable cache". It fucking caches anyway, that sod of a program. I doubt that it's any better in any other browser. I wouldn't know as I refuse to use Chrome and Edge, which are both crap IMHO.

And this morning the entire UX of Teams was totally messed up so I couldn't find the meeting I was to join without opening Outlook, choosing calendar view, looking up the calendar event for the meeting and, from there, clicking on the link. Cumbersome, to say the least.

@phibbs

Piss off you fucking spammer!