Thought pot

if i had three wishes they would all be to make web 2.0 utterly illegal and go back to normal html

how do we explain to children that all our tech briefly worked perfectly and over time we threw it all away for sleek menus and corporate opacity

"we could give you a link to this mp3 OR we could run it in a proprietary player app that must connect to the internet every time you hit the resume button"

when i upgraded from a flip phone to an iphone and realized i could no longer record and set a custom ringtone because apple wanted me to buy radio pop ringtones, i realized, oh cool new tech isnt made for us it's made to exploit us and we are going to let it happen

Things Have Not Gotten Better.

JS frameworks became SSR-first again, I think the web is healing, everso slowly.

Challenge: least appropriate Christmas viewing list which technically adheres to the time-honoured "it's a Christmas movie if it takes place in December and/or there's snow" criterion.

I watched In Bruges with my friends this year

i think the problem with linux PR is that linux users are always saying it's easy to use but they are also all hobbyists who keep reporting "i had a great time making my computer harder to use this weekend"

thrilled to report that i use a baby distro and never modify it except for the occasional upgrade and nothing ever happens

The problem with Linux PR is that it can be anything so it's advertised for the endless possibilities, but there are precious few (though luckily ever more) user stories for ease of use in particular because the existing user base doesn't care much for that.

No but this is PERFECT for an unkillable narrative decoration boss whose actual destruction involves a campaign's worth of sabotage missions and preparation.

young witch trying to solve the disappearance of her neighbour's cat in a small village in the alps but with the exact same tone and fractured identity of disco elysium. not the events themselves, they're all mundane and low stakes. but it's written the same way as DE

Your character is still a trainwreck alcoholic of course. She doesn't have a Kim-like partner to keep her focused on the case, though, her determination to find this cat is entirely self motivated. She needs a win. God, please she needs a win just this once.

her partner is her inner monologue personified as the same cat

I know folks who habitually swear in English even though it's not their first language because "English has all the fun swear words", and while I don't disagree that in terms of languages that are fun to swear in, English is pretty high up the list, I feel like some of these people desperately need to be introduced to Québécois French.

You can't just not provide examples

There's a whole Wikipedia article on the topic, though it doesn't fully do the matter justice, particularly with respect to the combined and extended forms. I once had a Québécois guy casually instruct me to go take a shit in the Holy Grail. Dude wasn't even particularly mad.

I'm perpetually switching between languages because Hungarian has excellent swears but British English has a much nicer rkythm. So I'll tell a whole story in Hungarian, forget about myself and switch to English, and then occasionally switch back just to swear.

What do maintenance fees for low-balance bank accounts even do. Besides kick you while you're down, I mean

During uni when I had basically no consistent income I used Revolut as my main bank account. I don't think it was insured so it's all kind of dangerous and don't do this if you don't have a safety net, but it's fairly modern, doesn't insist on mailing me paperwork, has online human customer support, I can receive payments to it for all kinds of temporary work like a standard bank account, and it was cheap, cheap, cheap. I think over the entire 3 years I spent maybe 30 pounds on exchange and transfer costs.