It can take a bit of motivation to get started, but reading books can be so fun and worthwhile (with the right books for you). I read a lot of books until I had a kid, then I didn’t have the time or energy to keep it up. Just recently I suffered a back injury that keeps me in bed a lot of the time, which forced downtime on me, and so I started reading again.

I wouldn’t recommend the back injury, but I’ve so much enjoyed embracing books once more. Like you, I’m 38 and felt like my literacy was declining. Now I feel like a lot of it’s coming back! If you can, you should try to resume reading.

I hope they didn’t burn their diploma.

As you all know, many posts are poorly censored to confound OCR. I don’t love that, but it makes sense.

Sometimes I think things have been censored, but it turns out that they were simply partially obstructed by UI elements on my phone.

For this post, I had to try to figure out how “linguist” was offensive before I discovered there’s apparently now an entirely functionless line that shows up on the bottom of my screen when opening images.

My work gave me a Mac with this. I absolutely hated it - constantly triggering random things I didn’t want or need and apparently something about the wiring caused the physical keyboard to fail prematurely.

Fortunately we’ve moved on from those dark days. I still have to use a Mac, but at least there’s no touch bar.

It was weird to see an actual vacuum repairperson on Breaking Bad. I understand that that wasn’t their primary function, but it seems like in the modern world the front wouldn’t stand up or at least would be subject to extensive scrutiny.

Though not the most academic resource, the YouTubers How Ridiculous recently popped a CRT screen. Because of their video format, I’m having a bit of time identifying which one it was, but it might have been this:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Hb6neW9S4XM

That’s a lot harder to rhyme.

edit: This would have been a great opportunity to reference B99 but I couldn’t find a good image macro.

When I’ve heard “tatty,” it’s been short for “tattered.” Like “threadbare.” However, as you said, from context I assume that’s not what’s meant here.

This kind of folding also seems okay.

Kentum and Megabonk are by far my most played games on Deck and both have almost no desktop playtime for me.

No worries, thanks for following up.

Well, one viable solution is to use a non-compatible remote, but at least my TV complains every time I press a button on one.

Thanks in advance!

That’s disappointing; I always thought the one thing they got right was the 98/XP interface that Cinnamon copied.

How did you do that?

I would be so happy if I could just disable the “magic mouse” (IIRC that’s what it’s called). I once talked to support for an unrelated reason and asked how to do that; they said the only way was to enable on screen narration.

Any time throughout the conversation I asked why those two things were connected, they dodged or outright ignored the question.

Agreed about the concept being cool.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve

I’ve had Fedora encourage me to reboot, but I don’t think I’ve ever had it do so without consent (excluding when my laptop battery died).

But there has to be a twist!