The state of the world, etc...

just because someone does it differently to you, it doesn’t mean that’s wrong

Absolutely, of course. I now even understand why they might, although of course there could be other reasons.

Doesn’t everyone use bookmarks to get to their frequently pages?

Probably – I certainly do. I’d never notice “Recent Posts” – or perhaps had, and forgotten about it having found no use for it. I have “Forum” bookmarked, but I can see that on a tiddly screen “Recent Posts” might be more convenient.

Doesn’t everyone use bookmarks to get to their frequently viewed pages?

That and having pinned the main forum page.
The update scanner Add-on for Firefox can be handy too, set it to scan for page changes at the interval you want, but I don’t currently monitor ROOL page changes to that degree

It’s bookmarked on my phone. When the page appears, I flick down to a message I remember, then read the list backwards to see what’s new. There’s Clive’s thirty seconds.

Or, if the first post is one I remember, I know there’s nothing new since my last visit. Less than five seconds…not that the time taken is that important really.

Exactly this.

Phone browsing again. I don’t do that at all. I don’t suppose I ever will.

There’s a strong sense of “I’m alright, Jack” in this thread…

There’s a strong sense of “I’m alright, Jack” in this thread…

Sorry if that’s the impression given; it’s certainly not intended. I for one simply didn’t understand the problem – I do now. Also sorry that it’s really not in my power to do anything about it.

I don’t read the forum from a phone and only use recent posts. You can’t flick through the posts you don’t want to read without getting the gist of them so you can’t ignore them. So when some ‘existential’ discussion is going on I switch off for a few days until it goes away. When the signal to noise ratio goes up I show more interest. Not a problem just stating how it affects my interest in the site.

Do the math on how to become a minority in the “country” you live, and the international agreements nobody here signed on to, so that’s the picture we’re in. A good hard look at “what everybody knows” is a usable antidote to the insidious Orwellian brainwashing. That’s my tuppence.

‘Math’ ??

Family size. Elect to have a blind spot there. Most do.

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Help, help, we have Douglas Adams disciples in our midst! He was a Mac abuser! Aldershot* indeed there old geezer.. 8)

*Weren’t Apple (in)directly implicit in Acorn Ltd’s totally untimely demise?

Seriously, wasn’t Arm Ltd. partly formed because Apple Inc. wanted an Arm CPU in their totally flopped “Newton PDA” while Acorn planned their NewsPad which afaik had a touchscreen interface and stuff? Prototype “NetPad”? Killing Acorn Ltd. was a Corporated Crime in my book. It was a very creative environment not paranoid enough to protect itself from a predatory owner structure by coming up with good mass-marked product ideas.

Out of cheese error. Redo thread from start.

Use Cheddar or Brie to offer better explanation. God Jul.

Anybody else like “Ghosts”? The episode when the Neanderthal understood “Maff”?