I wonder how many kids still know what headphone cords are.

Hiking. Alone. No technology along, just my walking stick and backpack. Bonus points when it’s foggy and I feel like the only person on the trail.

I have an account where I only post after I translated my writing through three different languages and back to English. The original input and the output convey the same message, but have very distinct styles. Randomizing the three languages in my translation sequence introduces enough variety that I doubt current LLM’s can identify me. (Full disclosure: I don’t post any sensitive information under any account; I do it just for fun.)

Keanu Reeves. Just the two of us, each on one end of the bench, enjoying a sandwich, and not talking but still content with each other’s company.

I’m living with my wife and kids half a continent away, but every time we visit my parents, they have some kids or house pets from my siblings to take care of. My parents are retired, they enjoy peace, quiet and especially their own schedule by now; they shouldn’t be asked to act as child minders anymore.

Wiping away excess paint if I miss. Still wet paint is easy to clean away that way. A wet wipe around your finger makes tor a very fine precision instrument to keep the edges of your painting straight.

That’s what I use the wipes for. I find that I’m more precise with the wipes than rags or an old T shirt.

I used wet wipes when painting my house. They are, without a doubt, some of the most important painting tools. But also probably the most infuriating, especially if you can use only two fingers on one hand to pull out a wipe.

Free? That’s when your kids send your grandkids for you to take care of. Ungrateful bastards…

My current computer will be Linux, as soon as I stop procrastinating and clean up my documents and back them up on my NAS. Already did that with my travel laptop.

As one legend to another: Before the Ancestors, there were Legends. That’s what the 70’s kids are.

Don’t know a day-to-day equivalent, but in winter, taking of your ski shoes after a day of skiing is straight up orgasmic.

That’s Crunchbang.

Bastard…

Learned from growing up in a communist dictatorship: don’t discuss politics and religion with strangers. And even with friends or acquaintances, don’t discuss it in writing. It doesn’t mean you can’t have strong opinions, but don’t make them public. Talking (not writing) one-to-one or in small groups eventually toppled almost all communist dictatotships, so there’s absolutely no need to broadcast your opinions, unless your goal is to be martyred.

In addition to “normal” uses, my kids got into the habit of leaving me messages on the camera when I’m in the office and they are leaving for school. I grew to love these messages.

Using Eufy with local storage. Don’t know whether anything gets stored to the cloud, but I guess data still passes through Eufy servers when I view the videos.

I may not be representative of a larger sample, but I used medium format for landscapes, and always shallow depth of field. For sharper images, I used longer lenses on a 35mm camera. So, a diffraction issue wouldn’t be bothering me on a medium format camera, if I ever even found the money to get one.

Still doing Vivaldi on a daily basic. But I think I’m a very specific use case: an old user who hates to change his ways, and is obsessed with keeping the page tabs on the bottom of the screen.

When I was your age, we called them Micro$oft. Too bad there were no extensions in Netscape Navigator.

Have school-aged kids. Getting up early will become the best part of the day. The silent first coffee before all hell breaks loose.