I’m lucky enough to be middle class, ever since landing a somewhat boring job that pays, like, 75% more than my old one, all in web development. I still can’t afford luxuries like a car or a house, but hey, I have a nice electric bike! And I can pay someone to clean my apartment every two weeks. It costs, like, 7% of my income, but I know I wouldn’t be able to keep it clean otherwise. Health issues suck.

I have poor friends who don’t earn much more than the minimum wage. They often complain about the price of groceries, and say things like “I’ve wanted this game so bad for so long but I don’t have any money left this month”. Each time I’m reminded of how thankful I am that I don’t really worry about prices anymore at the grocery store. And it makes me sad that we hadn’t such bad financial priorities that we have people WITH jobs who have trouble paying for food. Imagine those who can’t find a job!

There’s also my dad, as well as a friend couple of mine, who are rich. The friends, it’s crazy. They each have a car, PLUS a special summer car, they buy Dungeons and Dragons books on a monthly basis, they go on international trips yearly, they go camping in an RV, they’re always doing activities that cost a lot of money, they go to the restaurant a lot, etc. My dad is also on an airplane on a yearly basis.

It makes my head spin to just think about the sheer money. But none of these people are evil my rich friend is definitely more left-wing than anything else, and he’s a very smart person. They were just both blessed with luck, energy and talent, I guess. My dad is just a normal near-boomer. Neither better nor worse than the rest of them. He just got a high-paying factory job and had the energy to keep going.

I’m reminded of those people whenever I’m tempted to put all rich people in the same basket.

Another fun thing you can do is look at the sky (not the sun!) on a sunny day and start seeing your blood circulation and blind spot.

Car-centric urban design.

I hope you can see a doctor because that doesn’t sound good at all

At 60 years old I’d get it but at 30? That’s worrisome.

For now. I suspect some evil person will eventually think of baking in default ads for when it can’t connect to the network to get new ones.

Windows. Can’t be arsed to deal with Linux.

All the time. It’s basically the only way I open the Start menu. And I use Windows key shortcuts like Win+Alt+K really often.

I’ve tried it. There were three issues:

1. Mouse movement was pretty choppy. Not exactly a dealbreaker, but it took a little extra effort to aim at buttons.
2. There wasn’t an easy way to do keyboard shortcuts. I googled the issue and people were suggesting to change the system keyboard to one that includes extra keys like Windows, Ctrl, etc. I really didn’t want to deal with that.
3. The interface was pretty hard to navigate. In the absence of extra keyboard keys, I looked into creating a custom script in the app to maybe do things like Alt+tab a different way, and I never found it. Both apps said it had to be configured on the other device.

Yeah I wish they were still adding new features and stuff. But I haven’t found a better alternative yet, so I guess that’s what we have.

This is so weird. It reads like fiction.

Why is there a whole military briefing transcription right there in a newspaper? Isn’t that supposed to be secret?

Shoko sounds like something you’d like. It tracks that you watch and auto-sorts your downloads into folders that your library can easily work with. Works well with Jellyfin and Plex.

They’re still not done pushing their new, actually good, version to stable, though, and the same applies to the docs related to it. So I’d recommend going with the Daily version and joining the Discord for help with getting it to work.

Janky to install every time, but it’s a godsend when it works.

Unified Remote. It’s a little janky, but it does you to turn your phone into a trackpad and/or keyboard for your phone. It works with swipe typing, and allows you to use keyboard shortcuts such as Alt+Tab or Win+Shift+Arrow.

Truly the best way I’ve found of using my PC from my couch.

Jacob from TechLinked mentioned it in a video.

They’re not?

Låmp

Eh, bicycle helmet I guess?

Oh yeah I had a few.

• That the moon you see during daytime is actually Mars (I then repeated that to my big sister and she believed it for an embarrassingly long amount of time)
• That the “up” arrows on traffic lights were for planes

When you’re born, Pantone checks your skin color and charges you. You need to get a license before you get tanned or they fine you.

That looks delicious. I wanna try.