I had very constructive arguments about this with my grandma :

• Can you fetch one the green tiles ?
• What green tile ? You only have blue ones.
• Goes to fetch it herself. See ? A tile, and it’s green.
• But it’s clearly blue…
• I don’t know what you mean, can’t you see that it’s green ?
• I can see very clearly that it’s blue.
• No this is green, this is blue, and the tile is closest to green.
• It isn’t though, it’s definitely closest to blue.
• A while later
• This is pointless… Let’s just call it turquoise.
• Turquoise it is.
• The next time
• Your new oven mittens are quite nice, the blue goes well in your kitchen.
• They are green…

All that’s missing is a fetch screenshot to celebrate

Rice cooker saved my life. I add whatever I have lying around that doesn’t require cooking like ham, pickles, canned veggies or fruits, fresh or dried fruits, etc, and if I’m feeling fancy I might boil eggs. Plus mushroom sauce, oyster sauce, fish sauce, or soy sauce. If you can find black rice in asian supermarkets it’s even better.

When the tabs use too much RAM I just pkill waterfox and restart it, so the tabs are still there but not loaded, I assume it would to the same ?

Don’t worry they say they’ll shove AI in it so it’s definitely our world

adhd. I’m considering making at alert for when my browser uses so much tabs that I’m almost out of RAM

Thanks for the tip ! ❤️

yeah my problem is not with having a standard, but with choosing USB-C for it instead of something better.

I get that USB-C was probably the more pragmatic choice since it already existed and a lot of devices were already using it. But I’m still team “Let’s make a new good standard rather than use one that’s just okayish”

Twitter… wait no that would actually a good thing to force people to step back even only for a few seconds

Never tried it but it sounds good !

After further reflection, the hill I’ll die on is that we should replace ALL types of USB by barrel jacks, not only USB-C. Cause circular connectors rule! Make a standard one, I don’t care, as long as I never have to plug a USB-A three times to find the right way.

Thanks for the tip I’ll try that ! I’ve had the same problem on a tablet, but there it was definitely caused by the port being bend out of shape (it won’t be horizontal) so I had assumed it was the same problem on the laptop. But I’ll try cleaning it to see if it fixes it ! I assume a toothpick or something else or wood or plastic would be better than metal ?

Having devices require a USB-C charger might be great for small devices, but it’s awful for laptops. That thing is so flimsy it’s only a matter of time until it starts having faulty contacts. I’ve had one for a year and now it connects/disconnects everytime I touch the cable. Gimme back my huge Dell barrel jacks 😭 😭 😭

Oh yeah it’s so annoying when apps do that and put data in .mozilla, .vscode, and .whatevers in the home folder instead of following the specs and splitting it between .config, .local/share and so on… I have 31 .something in my home folder that shouldn’t be there and It’s a cluttered mess. And a few games not even bothering to start the folder names with a dot… 😡

Not looking at my keyboard when typing. I switched to colemak last year, and since then I’ve managed to get into the habit of typing without looking. Which is very useful now that my keyboard stickers are starting to come off so it shows some letters twice and others not at all 😅

total respect

Personally I put scripts in ~/.local/bin/scripts/ instead of just ~/.local/bin/ because I like to keep them separate from other binaries. To note: even though ~/.local/bin/ is in PATH, it’s subfolders are not, so if you do that you need to add the scripts subfolder to PATH if you want to run the scripts directly.

Well actually my scripts are in mydotfilesrepo/home/.local/bin/scripts, and I use GNU Stow to symlink mydotfilesrepo/home to /home/myuser/ (same for mydotfilesrepo/etc/ and mydotfilesrepo/usr/ which are symlinked to /etc and /usr), but it’s the same result. Stow is pretty cool for centralizing your configs and scripts in one repo !

I’ve never seen ~/bin before so I can’t comment on whether it’s a good idea.

Let’s also replace the customers by AI, that way the whole system will really be “AI first” and self-sufficient.

The excel people will never cease to amaze me…

No way, they get their results through honest effort. Anyone can make crappy AI products now, but Microsoft have been doing crappy products the hard way for decades. Don’t downplay their hard work !