No worries, easily done. I meant to say before, I also really like the Crucible - something we studied at school, and yet I still liked it! 😁

Of books I’ve completed, Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge. Read it at school, hated it (as well as Far from the Madding Crowd and Tess of the D’Urbervilles) - full of ridiculous coincidences. And also utterly miserable to boot.

I started reading The Da Vinci Code, but gave up after the very first page.

Possibly showing my ignorance here, but The Crucible is by Arthur Miller, and The Scarlet Letter is by Nathaniel Hawthorne - did either of them write a work with the other title as well? I can’t find anything to suggest they did, but I might be missing something.

You maniac, you made up! God damn you all to hell!!

Oh really? That’s cool, thanks for the info. Language is so fascinating 👍

Yeah, I was thinking I might. I ly thing is, I haven’t got all the books, nor do I have a website on which to host such a list. However I might still have a go 👍

Meant to say in my Nero Wolfe comment - there’s a Lemmy community for interesting words at !wotd@lemmy.world - it’s not very busy, but still.

Yeah, I’d say so. Maybe something like “Take it easy” would fit better.

I’m currently reading through all of Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe mysteries, and one fun feature is that he almost always includes one or more very obscure words. It’s a nice little thing to look out for.

In the one I’m currently reading it’s, “peculate,” meaning to embezzle or steal money. Others include:

• Plerophory - Fullness, especially of conviction or persuasion
• Apodictically - From apodictic: clearly established or beyond dispute
• Usufruct - The right to enjoy the use and advantages of another’s property short of the destruction or waste of its substance
• Acarpous - Not producing fruit; sterile; barren
• Yclept - By the name of
• Eruction - A belch or burp

I had a look to see if I could find a full list but sadly not. However most Wikipedia entries for the individual novels include a section called, “The unfamiliar word,” if you want to find more.

There used to be a Scottish football ⚽ player called Kevin Twaddle. Always amused me.

Would “Have a good one” maybe serve that purpose? It’s not exactly the same, but similar sentiment.

Yep, and thanks, I should have done that myself. Although setting that up as the default search takes a little more detail.

Not sure if this will help for that specific search but I recently discovered a change that you can make to your browser’s search defaults that makes Google search a lot better (for me at least), stripping away all the AI stuff.

Details in this thread: https://lemmy.world/post/19104187

Oh wow, that’s great, I didn’t realise it was back on the agenda - thanks a lot! 👍

That said, I found this line a bit surprising: “it’s not a goal to make it feel like you’re not in Firefox.”

That’s a shame, because being able to have a website run as if I’m not in a browser is exactly what I want to achieve! Still though, at least they’re looking at the concept.

David Lynch had apparently planned 2 further Twin Peaks films to follow from 1992’s Fire Walk With Me. Unfortunately the negative reaction that film got at the time put paid to any chance of them being made, even after the film’s fully deserved re-evaluation and recognition as one of his finest pieces of work.

Season 3 of Twin Peaks probably touched on some of the themes that perhaps would have been in those movies, but damn I’d love to see what they might have been if they’d been made right then.

Yeah, but I don’t think it’ll open it in the way I want, with only the site content, and no browser furniture. I’ll try it, but I’m not sure. Cheers though 👍

Thanks, but I’ve already changed default to FF - the icons are Chrome shortcuts though, so they will only open in Chrome. And I can’t see a way to make equivalent ones for FF, it just doesn’t seem to have the same functionality, in particular opening a link in a window with no tabs, bookmarks of address bar. Although I am going to check out an add on someone suggested that might do the job.

Thanks though 👍

Oh wow - that add-on does look like exactly what I need. Will need to look into it a bit further, not least because of possible security issues, but thanks, that’s a really good lead! Appreciate it :-)

Ah, thanks very much - but I’m only just dipping my toe into moving to FF, so I probably won’t be moving from Windows to Linux anytime soon! ;-)

Appreciate the advice though, cheers.

That’s really cool, thanks for sharing. Delighted to find that they have the Flash version of Portal, which I discovered long before I played the real game!

https://flashpointproject.github.io/flashpoint-database/search/#b0d2b9a9-ab00-465e-b5a3-56031b92f070