Would the furnace be able to contain it just fine, or would it explode, or would the flaming battery juice melt through the hull of the container, or what?

Reading Barry Lopez's book "Of Wolves and Men":

[...] disadvantage. The important thing to bear in mind is that generally wolves do not overrun the prey population and kill it out, although they have been known to do so, just as they have, extraordinary as it seems, practiced a kind of fallow-field farming by not killing deer in certain parts of their territories for four or five years, letting the prey population recover there.

I have multiple IMAP email accounts which each have their own folder structure, but I use a single Local Folders archive folder for all archiving (I don't use the archive folders in each individual account). So, my archive looks like this:

• Local Folders
  • Archives
    • 2023
    • 2024
    • 2025
    • 2026

And every archived email I've received from every person is lumped into one of those folders, sorted only by the year. But I'd find it much more useful to have something like this:

• Local Folders
  • Archives
    • dirtbag(at)hotmail(dot)com
      • 2025
      • 2026
    • orders(at)bigfatfuckclothing(dot)fat
      • 1999
      • 2000
    • order-confirmation(at)amazon(dot)humanmisery
      • 2024
      • 2025
      • 2026

I know I could set up filters and have this done in a non-archive manner, but I'd love to just be able to click the Archive button and have it sorted into a subfolder like above.

Possible? Or is there a less stupid way to do this that I just overlooked? That's usually what happens with me.

This might not be as unpopular an opinion as it was a few years ago, but here goes: Lucy Letby is not only 100% innocent, but none of the babies in her case were murdered at all, and instead died from natural causes associated with their grave medical states coupled with understaffing, mismanagement, poor ward hygiene, and some incompetence from well-meaning but undertrained staff. Absent the egomaniacal hallucinations of god-complex-having consultants who insist they know better than the pathologists who did the autopsies and found only poor care and serious illness and nothing suspicious, this would never have been brought to the police. In fact, when it was brought to them, they at first said "nah there's nothing here" until the consultants in question really pushed them.

I finished 2 books on her case in the last week, Unmasking Lucy Letby (the more "on the fence" of the two books, written by two BBC correspondents) and Reasonable Doubt (this one is very much an advocacy book which is 100% on Letby's side). I've also read the report from the international panel of experts (one of whom is an expert who wrote a paper in 1989 which the prosecution used against her, something said expert shot down as a complete misunderstanding of his work). Even the talk page of her Wikipedia article is worth parsing. The upshot of all that reading is this: the evidence against this woman is non-existent. It's not just that the evidence is weak, but there is none. There is no evidence of malfeasance at all, let alone that of a serial killing nurse, and certainly not of Lucy Letby being that serial killer.

There are so many professionals and experts - not internet-based true crime conspiracist wankers who I have hitherto ignored - who are calling this a huge miscarriage of justice, and literally NO ONE is coming out in support of her conviction apart from the ones who brought the case in the first place. Like, you'd expect to get a lot more "well, not sure, but..." from neonatal doctors and statisticians and pathologists and psychologists and endocrinologists, but you don't see that at all; every single expert in their respective field who has come out publicly about this case has been uniformly on the side of her complete innocence. That just doesn't happen in cases where the evidence is in any way convincing. The same is true for her nursing colleagues; they all said they never saw her do shit, and in fact she was one of the best among them. They still maintain that view.

This might just be the worst miscarriage of justice I've ever seen, and I grew up with the Birmingham Six and the Guilford Four & Maguire Seven ringing in my ears. At least in their cases, there was physical evidence used against them. It was bullshit and the science was flawed, but no one at the time knew that. Letby doesn't even having shit science against her. The entire case is an outbreak of hysteria amongst 3 or 4 consultants who had personal beef with Letby because of complaints she posted about them to higher-ups which threatened their careers.

Confirmation bias + no understanding of even elementary statistics + "I'm fuckin' Nancy Drew up in this bitch!" egomania from those consultants = this fucked up case.

I also think it's repugnant what was done to the families of those dead children. The lunatics who built this case against Letby really took the unimaginable heartache and grief of the parents and told them "actually, no, it's so much worse than you thought. That nice nurse who you thought was so caring and trustworthy? She offed your kid right under your nose." Once Letby is exonerated and compensated (something I would happily stake my life on), those parents are gonna have to find a place for the new depths of suffering the news brings. Now they're back to being the parents of a sick kid who died, and not members of a worldwide exclusive cohort of victims of a serial killer, a killer onto whom they had focused their anger and sadness for so many years but who is now shown to be innocent and irreversibly damaged because of the ordeal. I don't know how many years of therapy will be needed to untie that particular Gordian knot of ambivalence. They deserve compensation as well. And the consultants who jury-rigged this bullshit case deserve prison, but at the very least they should be struck off the medical register. In fact, the only time they should be allowed within the grounds of a hospital ever again is when their corpses are wheeled into the morgue in 30 years.

COME AT ME.

P.S. I didn't go into specific evidence and debunking of said evidence because it's all covered in the aforementioned books and articles. I'm happy to regurgitate what I've read if you want to go toe-to-toe with me on it (e.g. "but what about the post-it note with her confession on it!" etc.), but it's honestly better if you just read the material if you're interested in the topic. I'm deferring to experts here, I myself don't know shit about fuck. As I said, I'm not leaning on true crime sleuths or conspiracy theories or podcasts, I'm focusing only on expert opinion published by credentialed and recognised experts. Until I heard about such people and their opinions, I'd never given Letby's guilt a second thought. I'm not a "truther", and I would argue that the "truther" or the "conspiracist" in this particular case is the one who puts a woman in prison for life based on a 9/11 truther-style cherry-picking excursion, cherry-picking both "evidence" that fits their narrative and "experts" who are actually not experts in the fields they need to be for their expertise to matter. The non-truther position, in my opinion, is the one that sees scientific consensus on a given topic and defers to it. The consensus is very much on Letby's side.

Got a new OLED monitor, and my PC wouldn’t start anymore. It'd power on - all the lights came on etc. - but nothing would happen and the monitor would go into standby after a few seconds, saying there was no signal. I have a program I use for remote access via my phone, so I'd check that to see if the PC actually made it into Windows or not, but it didn't. Plus tapping the power button would switch off the PC again instantly, as opposed to having to hold it down like normal, so it seems it didn't get past stage 1 of bootsville.

After MANY hours of futile fiddling, I discovered that it was as simple as starting the PC with the monitor off, and after the first few seconds, to turn on the monitor. Everything's fine after that, until I need to start my PC again the next day. I need to turn off the monitor, press my PC power button, then after a few seconds turn on the monitor.

What the hell is going on here?

Specs:

• GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti
• CPU: Intel Core i9 9900K
• RAM: 32GB Corsair DDR4 (rockin' a small country's GDP these days)
• Monitor: Samsung Odyssey G81SF
• Motherboard: Gigabyte Z390 AORUS PRO WIFI-CF

My previous monitor was connected with a display port cable, and the new one is with a fancypants HDMI one.

It's obviously a minor issue to have to turn off the monitor before booting, but I'm curious as to why it's happening in the first place. If there's something I can do to fix it, all the better. But it's so bizarre.

Cheers!

Before we get into it, let me just say that I understand that removing a major component of a dish may cause it to become something else. So cheeseless pizza may no longer technically be "pizza". To this I say: no one gives a fuck, please go officiate a spelling bee or whatever it is you do for fun, ya gatekeeping linguaFREAK.

I want to try to convince you to give cheeseless pizza a shot, because I think Big Cheese™ has been depriving humanity of the true deliciousness of pizza for millennia.

Cheese on pizza (and this includes the cheese substitutes that you might find on vegan or vegetarian pizzas) is like taking a carefully-crafted meal, flavoured and spiced to perfection, and then saying to the customer "hey, do you want me to dump a thick molten layer of bitter yellowish-white slime over everything? It'll completely overpower every other flavour on the dish, and will leave your mouth feeling weird and gross after you're done eating." and the customer is like "HELL YEAH!"

If you enjoy many toppings with lots of veg and whathaveyou, you are not getting the full experience when cheese is there cockblocking your tastebuds like an ugly friend at a bar. The sauce, the bread, the peppers, the onions, the 'shrooms, the pepperoni, they're all full of flavour and each flavour stands on its own and simultaneously complements the other flavours. Dumping a pound of cheese on top of it makes it all coalesce into a murky nondescript lump, something akin to trying to listen to music in a wind tunnel while wearing a thick deerstalker hat with the ear flaps down. It's like the difference between having an intellectually-stimulating conversation with a like-minded person, and trying to be heard as you discuss football stats with a drunk stranger in a bar where the sound system is cranked up to max volume at all times.

If you're someone who just likes a straight Margherita pizza, where cheese is very much the "main event", then this doesn't really apply. I concede that even the most delicious pizza sauce and most fancy base bread are not quite enough to blow anyone's mind with flavour if that's all you're working with. But if you like adding toppings, allow them to be the main event for one day, and when you do, give yourself over the involuntary urge to start singing A Whole New World when the flavours awaken hitherto dormant olfactory neurons that you didn't even know you had.

In many online pizza shops, you can untick "cheese" when choosing your toppings, and they'll respect your choice, and you won't receive a wellness check from the police or anything. You can do it with Domino's, and many of my local pizza places do it, too. You can also buy frozen pizzas sans cheese or cheese substitutes, although this is fairly rare (they think removing cheese means you need to replace it with some other gunk that does the same job, which is obviously not helping matters). And of course, you can make or buy bases and build your own pizza at home.

Try it. TRUST ME BRO.

#FuckCheeseOnPizza

Doesn't have to be on that particular section of the menu, but can I add commands/buttons willy-nilly somewhere on that menu?

Cheers!

As I understand things, or least how I've understood them over the last year or so, NVIDIA GPUs are comparatively less-supported on Linux than AMD ones. Is this still the case, and if so, is there hope for near-future improvements in this department? Has NVIDIA made any moves that indicates they're gonna try to make things better in terms of drivers? And out of curiosity, what is it that AMD has done that NVIDIA hasn't? Is it really just down to the drivers?

On a similar topic, how is HDR support on Linux? I've read that Wayland has support for this (I sound like I know what Wayland is, but I really don't) but that streaming services and DRM-protected content won't work with HDR. I personally don't care about the streaming side of it, I'm more concerned about gaming and watching local video files or 4K Blu-ray discs (I use a tool to strip out the DRM from such discs on-the-fly, so no worries there).

So, in sum (and to make it easier to reply!):

1. Is NVIDIA still lagging behind AMD in terms of GPU support on Linux?
2. Why is (or was) AMD better-supported?
3. How is the current HDR implementation? Particularly as it relates to gaming and watching videos/discs locally.

Thank you kindly!

I assume one becomes a chef because they have a love for cooking and food and the artistry involved, but I can't think of anything more eroding to that love of the craft than the kind of working day I see chefs and other kitchen staff go through. It seems to an outsider like me that it's basically a shift-length panic attack, every day. But that can't be the case, or no one would do the job!