I was also wondering if this is a continuation of the socks as a social construct thread.

Unlike you, however, I don’t consider the idea to be “hippy shit” at all. In fact, I’ve often thought that we might be better off without corporations. Entrepreneurship is what we need, not impersonal investment.

Probably downvoted by the same people that would downvote my above comment. 🙄

Yes but only on YouTube and for the most harmless of comments.

'tis the season, I guess?

Same.

Sweet sleep. Speaking of which, back to bed I go. 😴💤

I feel like they’ve gotten better over time. And some settings you’re really only supposed to be changing if you know what you’re doing.

Dialogues that don’t require clicking OK to apply my selection. What if I change my mind or click the wrong thing?

Here’s a past annoyance: help text for BIOS settings that was like

Tronic memory catalyst conversion ratio: Sets the ratio of tronic memory catalyst conversion.

O RLY? 🤔

Blue LEDs are eye piercing, especially when they are always on and you are trying to sleep in the same room.

Users are lazy AF and hate to read. No matter how instructive the error message, some people would rather open a helpdesk ticket because “the computer isn’t working again”.

It says right there your USB drive is full and suggests deleting some files to free up space, Karen! 🤨

My favorite NES “soundtrack” is Dark Side of the Moon, Brad Smith’s fantastic adaptation of the Pink Floyd classic for the NES console.

How difficult is it to include the digit “2” in the title? This is the latest and greatest of main battle tanks, after all, not some rusty POS from the 1960s.

Might as well provide the URL for the comparison site: www.geizhals.de

It’s been around forever and is still as good as ever.

Munich of all places offers an interesting case study on open source software in German public service. They ditched MS 21 years ago despite Bill Gates’ personal lobbying of mayor Christian Ude. But they had to go back eventually because they simply couldn’t make the alternative (based on a custom Linux implementation with Libre Office) work. They’ve now shifted to using open source as much as possible without sacrificing interoperability.

This page has a great writeup on the topic: https://interoperable-europe.ec.europa.eu/collection/open-source-observatory-osor/document/munichs-long-history-open-source-public-administration

The Franco-Belgian comics scene has turned out so many timeless classics.

I was never really into DC and Marvel, except for some graphic novels like the Alan Moore books.

That’s what I always do since there are decent options available nowadays.

Homemade pizza. Making the dough creates a mess and requires delicate manual labor in several steps at precise times over more than 24 hours. Looks great on YouTube but that’s just not me.

Edit: thanks for the suggestions, guys. Who knows, maybe one day… 😉

Yeah, this is missing “who are you, Ken?”

There’s allot in English, too. Which means something like to assign a quantity or share to someone or something.

Alot is not a word.

Also, the vanishing use of countable quantities: they are all amounts nowadays.