Buy freezer or shelf-stable microwave meals? You have food that way but it shouldn’t really just “go bad”. At least, not quickly.

Do be fair, that’s less because the fundamentals behind programming are changing and more because the specific implementations are changed all the damn time.

It’s not about the coffee specifically, it’s about all the pleasantries. Sure walks are nice and stargazing is lovely. And yeah, those things are great with friends and partners! But you know what else is a nice little treat? Coffee. Snacks. Watching that movie together. Some lovely flowers. Slick shoes.

Some of the pleasantries that make life worth living are free, but many of them cost money. You obviously can’t have everything, but having to give up on literally every pleasantry that costs money (even the cheapest of ones) just to afford enough to live what used to be a normal middle class life is definitely not something that should be treated as normal. There’s a clear trend of sinking purchasing power for the masses and, with it, sinking morale.

Previously I had the warnings until uBlock killed them. Only one has made it through in recent times, we’ll see how things keep going.

6 lessons? ew.

oh good to hear. I heard about windows doing jank stuff on update recently and was really worried I’d have to fight with it soon.

It’s been a while since I saw it, and I don’t plan on re-finding nor rewatching just to figure out what I hated at the time. I recall it was one about electricity, and there was something about claims that are fundamentally impossible within the realms of physics.

Unfortunately a lot of people are going to assume you have it under control already and/or would prefer the solitude as you sort through it. That’s not the extent of the issue, obviously, but that’s a pretty significant compounding factor.

For the screens I’m using, a book page is way narrower than the standard text region of a screen.

Sorry, Veritasium. And it’s been a while since I’ve watched his stuff, so I don’t remember which videos annoyed me. I know there was one that involved electricity that was just extremely wrong in a few key ways.

Got any details on the type of stuff your mom shared for improved UIs?

It makes more sense on monitors with large blocks of text or large paragraphs. With a monitor so big relative to a book, and scrolling making it easy to lose where you were, it can sometimes be tough for folks to read through huge chunks. Some people select chunks of text to help break up those monoliths into manageable bites along with putting a clear marker for where they are if they scroll or otherwise lose their place…

You should probably note what they focus on so people know.

“Through the magic of heat pumps…”

That shit’s my jam.

I’ve seen him double down on being very wrong more than once. I find it hard to take him seriously knowing how very wrong he can be without wavering conviction.

If he’s wrong when talking about the topics I do know about, what should I assume about his knowledge of topics I’m less familiar on?

The password on my PC is something like 30 characters long. Back when win10 was first coming out, they were pushing getting an actual outlook account and tying that to your login. I was hesitant at first, but figured I’d try it out and see how that worked for me.

Turns out outlook accounts (at the time) had something like a 16 character limit on passwords. Bruh.

Switched to Mint recently. So far it’s been smoother than I expected, but still had some crazy rough patches. Luckily, helping me through this junk seems to be one of the things AI excels at. I’m set up mostly how I want to be and it’s been mostly working well enough so far. Mostly.

Right. Luigi jumps high. No point in playing Luigi if jumping high doesn’t actually net anything. Gotta play Luigi when the extra jump height gets progress.

Unfortunately I don’t see that happening without a major US war and major election reform. Otherwise they have like half-ish of the population at least semi-supporting them, and half the population is not likely to peacefully get labelled “terrorist”.