https://www.localsearch.com.au/guides/landscape-supplies/what-is-blue-metal

“It’s called blue metal since it has a blue colour.”

That explains the blue, but not the metal…

alquicksilver for president

I used to provide tech support for the family, and tried to move them to Linux to make them easier to support (similar simple use cases)

Thry weren’t interested so now requests for help get a genuine “Sorry, I don’t use Windows so I can’t help”

Top Marx

Agreed, see also

https://slrpnk.net/post/14138900

Not OP. I guess that it is for someone missing a finger on their left hand

I think you’re right about the area

This page (google translated) suggests they are either mown fields, duck hunting areas, or areas disrupted and monitored for the effect on bees

Interestingly, I think the second photo from the carousel on your link shows one of these areas

Many licences make a distinction between using software and distributing it

For example in the GPLv3:
To “convey” a work means any kind of propagation that enables other parties to make or receive copies. Mere interaction with a user through a computer network, with no transfer of a copy, is not conveying.

John Safran - Not the Sunscreen Song

Everyone has their preferred place on the soup-stew continuum

Only 90s cats will get this

NiMH has been common in consumer batteries for around 15 years (in my experience, although Wikipedia shows the chemistry is way older) but you can still buy the other chemistry (NiCd), and there may be newer lithium rechargables but I haven’t seen them in standard sizes (AA etc)

Eneloops set the standard for good quality NiMH batteries for a while, but IKEA Ladda batteries are also NiMH, and probably plenty of others now

Because rechargable batteries before NiMH sucked for many use cases - they were good for the Gameboy as you charged and used them straight away at high draw, but try using one in a low power device like a remote or wall clock and you’ll find it is dead in a week despite minimal actual usage

I just seed to 3 - if it’s popular it won’t take long, and if it’s not popular it probably needs the extra help (and it’s just one setting)

I actually seed much longer if something still has no other seeds though

This is somewhat outdated, developers can now opt in to reproducable builds using their own keys

https://f-droid.org/docs/Reproducible_Builds/