And Taiwan is set to blow their chip factories if invaded. Not an official policy, but it’s a no-brainer.

Yeah, you won’t see the poop emoji in Linux or LibreOffice! 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Are you in the right thread?

As a cable guy I visited several thousand homes, all ages and incomes, got pretty good at judging people’s lifestyle at an inside glance.

Went to install internet at this guy’s new apartment, IRS agent. My god the room was sterile, also, “Shit. New place. This poor guy is going through a divorce.” And he was.

He was utterly boring, middle-aged white guy, button down shirt, didn’t have jack to say until his modem came online.

“Really? It’s good to go?”

“Yep. All good.”

“Hang on, hang on…”

Dude fired up Unreal Tournament, hopped in a quick game to test ping, “YES! YES! Thank you thank you thank you!”

Now that I wrote all that out, I have a guess what the divorce was about.

Had a buckle on my favorite boot break. Cross section to be repaired was 1.5mm x 1.5mm. Held solid for months until I drunkenly tripped over the strap tongue at a party. (Not the first time drunk, tongue and party was a thing in my life.) JB welded it again. Stayed tight.

OH! Very slick. :)

Found one on the trail yesterday and stuffed it in my pocket. Long story, but I was packing 20lbs., scared, in a hurry, threw it back down. “Oh FFS I don’t need another one.”

Hold up. Tell more.

I JB Welded a sawed off Allen wrench to my shitty Amazon bipod last week. Now it’s “quick release”!

No, I get that! But I’d bet those guys at least played high school ball.

And yes, different skills sets! People on here constantly bag on CEOs for not being able to do their low-level job. Well. No? They should have a clue though.

I was learning BASIC on a VIC-20 around that age.

more programming than coding

What’s the distinction?

Yeah, but those coaches are almost always former players.

I got a Sensi thermostat 5 years ago. Very happy. Only trick is it doesn’t work cut off from the internet, not even on the LAN. But you can still walk up and punch buttons. (Tested this last week. Might be a way around this.)

77-yo, rolled 130’ downhill, survived with what he had on him. I feel like most y’all would simply die.

Last I looked, but it’s been years. I can’t imagine texting without a swipe KB.

Wife sends me crazy texts. I assumed it was because her English no so good, but I bet it’s the iPhone.

Do those things have any sort of swipe, or do you still have to press each key?

😮

I started with a VIC-20 at twice that age. In the 80s computers were viewed as somewhat magical, a bit scary. Took a 2-week summer camp on programming BASIC and two things they told us made me feel way better.

You can’t physically destroy the computer typing at the keyboard. I took that to mean no matter how badly I screwed up, the problem could be unscrewed.

It’s a dumb machine, no brains, period. That means you are in control of it. Some people could use that lesson today. 🫤

I have a Sensi and didn’t program it correctly, though my wiring was on point. HVAC guy puzzled over it a few then called me over to show me what the cryptic options meant. Been solid for a few years now.

I’d like to see those options in the app, but if those were included people would fuck them up and blame the company. 🤷🏻