Nah, I had the kindle keyboard and it was great. Still is, if I don’t want to read with a backlight. My first one stopped working after at least a decade, and a couple months later I came across one in a thrift store for like 10 bucks and it still works great.

With as cheap as pen plotters have gotten, I’m surprised no one has come up with a reasonably small printer looking one for normal sized paper that functions like an actual printer. the ones you can get need special plugins and vector graphics to plot. There used to be many models several decades ago, and they can still be found and modified to use normal pens, but that’s kind of a driver nightmare. I feel like we’re past the point where people need to be able to print many pages relatively quickly, and I’d rather have a printer that took a while to print but I knew that it would work every single time.

I have a full beard, so I don’t know… Does it take more than 5 minutes?

Except that it’s great to homebrew and experience literally everything it has to offer. It’s the same with the 3ds. Turns out to be about the best handheld emulator out there, because of the extremely high quality buttons.

Have to add, I came across mine the other day in a drawer and the soft touch finish is sticky now, and the thing was so bad to begin with I feel like it’s that way on purpose just to be a dick.

I use a petzl zipka for that. The headband is a retractable string, so it has no bulk, and it runs on aaas. I don’t think they make them anymore, but you can still find them occasionally.

With bitwarden you can store and securely share files, store information for family members, card details, memos, etc

My favorite use for my phone was wabbitemu, which was a perfect emulator for the ti86 calculator I’ve used almost daily since 1998. Apparently my new phone uses a new architecture and the app doesn’t work, so that’s rather disappointing.

If the phone flashlight is so useful, try carrying a legit flashlight for a while. They’re loads better. I’d suggest one of the smaller offerings from rovyvon. Any of them are great, but I like the ones with two lenses and a rechargeable plus AAA battery compartment. It’s the size of a car key fob, lasts a long time, charges over USB c, and goes from super dim to insanely bright.

Clearly you’re not talking about Debian.

It ain’t wrong if it gets done.

–dad

I work in a technical field, and the amount of bad work I see is way higher than you’d think. There are companies without anyone competent to do what they claim to do. Astonishingly, they make money at it and frequently don’t get caught. Sometimes they have to hire someone like me to fix their bad work when they do cause themselves actual problems, but that’s much less expensive than hiring qualified people in the first place. That’s probably where we’re headed with ais, and honestly it won’t be much different than things are now, except for the horrible dystopian nature of replacing people with machines. As time goes on they’ll get fed the corrections competent people make to their output and the number of competent people necessary will shrink and shrink, till the work product is good enough that they don’t care to get it corrected. Then there won’t be anyone getting paid to do the job, and because of ais black box nature we will completely lose the knowledge to perform the job in the first place.

There are people who have natural ability at every instrument, but it’s much more common for it to be with one or two types of instruments. Them a little (enjoyable) practice will get them to whatever level of mastery they’re happy with. They can be totally hopeless at other instruments, and average at others. The ones that will blow your mind are those who are total naturals at one, but choose to pursue an instrument they have no natural ability at.

Different places right? Where I live you’re as like to get shot as not for approaching someone’s house on foot at night without announcing who you are and why you’re there.

Someone came stealthily up to our gate late at night once when my partner was alone in the side yard. Dog ran him off when he tried to open the gate, but I don’t like to think what might have happened if he wasn’t out with her. There is literally zero chance he was there for any legitimate reason and she was clearly visible in a light at the back of the property.

I’m always amazed at tourists looking at gators at the zoo. Whatever zoo you’re at there’s probably a river or lake full of them within a couple miles.

I saw some tourists a while back who thought they were looking at a whole group of albino gators, but they were just covered in bird crap. I had to tell them.

I ordinarily don’t eat lunch. Or breakfast. I eat a large dinner. If you eat less carbohydrates your body won’t feel bad when it runs out, which might be why you feel bad after eating, if it’s a while after.

Today, i’m eating lunch, and it’s some pasta with olive oil, dill, and some canned tuna. Most of the time I eat the pasta right out of the fridge without heating it. You don’t even need olive oil if you use tuna packed in olive oil.

Other times, I’ll eat some raw vegetables and a can of some sort of meat, or I’ll eat leftovers. Usually cold.

I’ve been intermittent fasting for quite some time, and it kind of makes you reevaluate your relationship with food. A meal can certainly be a luxurious experience, or it can just be fuel to get you through your day. I actually prefer eating one large meal a day, but it does tend to increase your cortisol levels, so when i’m already very stressed I tend to eat some lunch.

Similarly, koofr has cheaper options for lifetime options, an open source client with encryption available, and compatibility with rclone and WebDAV.

I’d also recommend hetzner’s hosted nextcloud instances. They’re reliable, and relatively cheap for the file size offered. Nextcloud is great to self host till the first time it goes down and a family member can’t get a file, then you won’t ever be able to convince them to use another service you host.

Inner light wrecks me.

With wool socks, i’d recommend changing them every day, to give them a chance to air out, but you don’t have to wash them every time. You can easily get 3 swears per wash with even the most squeemish people examining your socks daily.

FYI, i’m squeemish and I knit lots of wool socks.

Lol. Course you are. I’m sure now that i’ve mentally registered your username I’ll be seeing it on all the subs i’m already on.