Suomi pähkinänkuoressa.

Okay, thanks for the advice Eric. I do intend to post here if I do come across a solution, so I’ll keep this open for now. Software updater in current releases looks different, so I’ll probably close this in any case once the next LTS comes around and I’ve upgraded.

Uh, except there’s no ”abandoned” alternative in the closing alternatives, and the question is still valid.

Never got Compiz to do the job, so I’m closing this as Eric suggested. FWIW, this devilspie script seems to work: (if (matches (application_name) ”^update-manager$”) (maximize))

Edullinen perusmuistikampa. Ei minkäänlaisia asennusvaikeuksia, täyttää määrittelynsä asiallisesti ja aiempien Kingston-kokemuksien perusteella tälläkin odotettavissa pitkä elinikä yhteensopivien laitteiden kanssa.

I’m failing to follow you in the second paragraph. I thought it was the K editions that are targeted at enthusiasts, being more overclockable and all.

That’s what I always wondered when the Bible talks about salt losing saltiness.

Inability to control her emotions? I feel like we’ve watched different shows. She was overly defensive, yes at times overly aggressive, but obviously kept holding back tears, and certainly wasn’t unbalanced by her emotions at any point, unless you count the overall picture being so horribly misbalanced.

That to me was precisely so weird about it: until almost the end she seemed able to brush off Ramsay’s attacks as unwarranted, whereas what I’d perceive as a normal person would have had their armor pierced long ago in face of all the evidence, leading perhaps to actual momentary loss of self control (crying, shouting, leaving or smth) and possibly even towards accepting some of Ramsay’s advice. But for her, to me it seemed, protecting her absurdly flawless self-image was quite enough to keep her emotions mostly under check, hence the bizarre effect.

I wonder about the (apparently Wikipedia-derived) ”can endure” part, what does it mean? That be it any worse and you’d lose consciousness? Surely you can’t die from pain alone?

That’s some quality ink/paper they used back then, none of that ”invisible by tomorrow” thermal hokum.