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Same here, although it did eventually lead to years of employment as a web dev.

It was around 1991 in the university computer lab. Just a green screen dumb terminal for email and newsgroups. Played too much Nettrek after hours on the Spark workstations later on.

This ought to happen everywhere. Either I’m the admin on my machine or I’m not. If it’s not, I’m not sure how much longer I’ll tolerate a Windows machine.

Winter, you say. It felt like spring yesterday.

Given trade, it doesn’t seem to be in their best interest to cripple the US.

My Internet has Pihole and uBlock. I don’t know what these ad things are.

They meant to say fecal recognition. They’re struggling to determine the difference between a Whopper and a whopping dookie. No luck so far, and I doubt an app is going to help.

I’m not so sure about that. It took me forever yesterday to get my international keyboard setup to work on Ubuntu the way I wanted it to. I’m saying that as someone who’s been using Unix/Linux in a school, IT and home setting for 30 years. It was unforgivably difficult.

Ben Folds. He’s got classical, jazz and rock chops, with a full helping of the wit and mischief in his lyrics.

According to the people who know me intimately, the AI is gonna nope out even harder than I am.

I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my Kindle Paperwhite. I’ve had it for six years now. I’ve occasionally cursed it when it forgets the WiFi, but that hasn’t really happened a lot.

The phone app has a lot more features, but it hurts to read on something that small and heavy for very long.

Ditto on the Arduino. I built a pickup winder for electric guitar, and it’s more than made up for its price in entertainment alone.

Both of the tools I tried from there failed hard and fast. The first was a rotary tool. I ended up keeping the plastic and using a motor from a printer instead until I bought my Foredom.

The second was a vibratory tumbler. After running it for a few hours, I walked into my garage to find it filled with smoke and the acrid smell of burning electrical equipment.

I took it back to the store for a refund and the manager threatened me, saying that he wouldn’t let me make any more returns after bringing back an obviously defective piece of garbage.

Glad you had a better experience, but that place is definitely not for me.

Hmm. Kinda rhymes with “garbage crate”. Horrible store. I’m never going back.

I’ve used, administered and coded on Linux for a very long time. So yup

Obscure keyboard shortcuts.

I was just [insert action here].

A couple weeks ago, I had a ten year old account on Reddit that just wouldn’t let me back in. I tried changing the password, but the link and the form it gave me didn’t work. I tried several times, no luck.

I contacted support several times. They were worse than useless. If that’s how they treat their most loyal content creators now, why on earth would I ever go back?

Oh well. It was fun until it wasn’t.

First, I appreciate your calm response in the context of my sarcasm. It’s not what I’m used to on the Internet, and it’s refreshing.

My simplest answer is that I don’t know. Neuroscience has made a lot of progress in the last several decades, but I’m unaware of any credible researchers claiming to have a unified theory of consciousness yet. We probably still have a long way to go, assuming it’s even possible to know.

Wow. I’m glad you figured that out. I thought it was going to be so much more difficult.