I used to love my Sayers sausage roll as a kid. I haven't lived in Liverpool for 25 years now, but sad to hear Sayers is no more.

Obligatory dad joke.

How do you make a sausage roll?

Push it down a hill.

> I haven't lived in Liverpool for 25 years now, but sad to hear Sayers is no more.

Same, except it's just over 50 years for me.

This story was quite a nostalgia trip for me – I immediately remembered trips to Sayers bakeries with my mum when I was little, although as a little lad I was more interested in the cakes than the sausage rolls myself.

Well, not sure if it's classed as a cake, but my favourite desert there was the egg custard tart.

Is it a cake? Is a tart a pie? I always went for the little custard tarts too.

Makes me think of the cake vs. biscuit philosophical arguments:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa_Cakes#Classification_and...

I find these stories fascinating. Since it mentioned the orange originally came from China, I wonder if there are varieties that are resistant while still tasting good.

Wikipedia suggests that there are no naturally resistant strains, although there is some genetically modified work ongoing.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_greening_disease#Contro...]

More interesting was a suggestion that a more holistic approach may have merit, i.e. improving overall soil/grove health with less intensive methods. [https://citrusindustry.net/2019/04/02/citrus-grower-sees-suc...]

Nice, I made a cotton slip for my seat, which worked the same way I guess.

This was happening to a colleague's monitor. As it happened frequently when either of us got up, I suspected it was the fabric of the chair, which was probably some kind of acrylic. I made slips for the ass part of the chair from 100% cotton, and to my amazement it fixed the problem.

I wonder if I could use this to write browser test cases.

Has nobody tried to create an alternative English spelling a bit like the Chinese have done with Pinyin. This would be more for the benefit of learners rather than trying to change Greek identity.

Meta

I'm so confused right now.

So this is a lighter weight alternative to other Linux desktops?

Well, it can't run X or Wayland apps, so I wouldn't call it an alternative to those. An alternative to Haiku maybe.

why no X11?

Because everyone's going for Wayland, even though you still need XWayland to do anything useful on it because Wayland is comically incomplete.

well, I mean, why can't this ship with an X server? Or maybe it does and then I'm not sure why it is said that only Haiku apps are supported

It's not that it can't, if you can do something it doesn't mean you should. If we used X it'd be another linux distro isn't it? Part of the fun is to make your own UI feel.

This is great news for my wife and my parents, but it would really be nice to have the choice when it comes to my phone's OS. Just like I had with Linux. I boggles my mind how the components in a phone are somehow different to the components in a PC in that they are unaccessible to people who write drivers for them.