I don’t visit coffee shops, but out and about, people on zoom calls, or regular calls are much louder.

Also old people. So many old people sending links to lies and bullshit.

Steam up the windows/mirrors and write something. It’s only visible when the room steams up again.

“Help,” “I’m sorry,” “I miss you,” etc.

I also used to buy wall decals. You can buy Mario themed ones or whatever and leave them inside cabinets, behind doors, etc. The right kind comes off without leaving any residue.

God damnit. You just ruined the one song of their’s that I liked.

The crate is the dog’s safe space, not a punishment. If I need my dog to be in her crate, I reward her when she goes inside.

There are also hand motions to go with common commands like ‘sit’. I’ve found this makes it easier for a dog to understand me.

Pretty sure that kid’s arm would hang down to his ankle if he straightened it. Must be all those atomic wafers.

Better general medical science. So much of what we use is very old tech. We still can’t regrow cartligage. We still pin bones together with titanium screws. We still mostly use fiberglass casts (though better alternatives exist). We still catch the common cold.

Yeah, I have a retro device that I spent hours configuring. When I finally had everything working… something got corrupted and I had to start over. I have not had the energy to try again.

I would vastly prefer a preconfigured setup.

Hated the ending. I thought the game was finally about to get good, then it was the end, and a bad one.

I mean, I like my EV… But bragging about it’s performance in winter? Not the sales pitch I would go with. I get 1/3 the range of a mild day, and I’m not blasting the heat.

Yeah, the EV range is frustrating.

270 miles? Pretty good. Except you shouldn’t drive it below 20% or above 80%, so really the range is like 170. Cold winter? Now it’s like 75.

No regrets on our EV, but I would feel a whole more more comfortable with 2x the capacity.

Too bad we can’t buy BYD here.

Shop used right now to take advantage. Low mileage EV’s are crazy cheap. We saw ‘used’ vehicles with less than 30 (not thousand) miles for half off, straight from the dealer, full warranty. Much cheaper than a combustion counterpart.

At the price we paid, even if the car is worth $0 at the end of five years, we’ll have done alright.

I have one machine in Linux and another in Windows. I’ve also made bootable persistent thumb drives to save myself any accidents creating a dual boot. That way I can run Linux for daily stuff, and Windows when I’m too incompetent to figure out a workaround for a game or whatever.

Windows needs to be rebooted all the time anyway, so it’s not really that big of a deal to boot into something else now and then. Plus it gives you a little change of pace.

Wow. That is really dark.

Before Amazon was as big as it is today, they approached me for a position. I had three different 1 hour interviews, then I found out they still expected me to fly to Seattle for 3 full days of interviews. I told them I was not interested. Before I knew much about corporate America, my gut told me that was a bad sign. Glad I listened.

During the pandemic, interviews seemed to have endless rounds of ridiculous questions. There needs to be a law that interviewers need to pay you at the position’s rate for anything beyond 2 hours. It would eliminate so much bullshit.

Aside from the config this looks cool

I bought a Retroid 3+ a while ago. It was an interesting experiment, but ultimately a pain in the ass to configure.

Ideally I just want to select a rom or game and play. I really don’t enjoy spending hours in settings and tweaking every detail to get a have to run decently. I don’t need AAA, but GameCube and PS2 would be cool.

Is that a thing? Or am I doomed to hangout in RetroArch settings?

Same. For whatever reason Jellyfin just does not want to work outside of my network. I have fiddled with port numbers, settings, and everything else. I have no idea why it won’t work.

Does it get noticable hot?

Yeah, it was an impulse buy that worked out for a few years. Now that I need to replace it, I’m sure there are better options. Carhartt makes good stuff. I’ll check them out.

I wear under layers if I know that I’ll be out for long, thermals and what not. Heated feels pretty nice though.