When I bought me house, I remarked that I appreciated that it wasn’t freshly painted (there were dings in the corners) because I told me they weren’t trying to hide something under new paint.

That was me when I was, like, 15. I was between the “two sides”. The Republicans I was surrounded by were nutzo, but I didn’t know anyone more left, other than my parents who “didn’t talk politics” (but generally were ok with the queers and not-whites in a nonspecific way). I toyed with the idea of anarchism because I hated being told what to do, settled on the label “fiscally conservative, socially liberal” with the asterisk that social programs tended to be cheaper solutions to issues than Republican. This all would have been around the hanging chad controversy. I think that’s when I first noticed national politics.

Then I went off to college and my horizons expanded.

This matches my experience. My college archive digitizes a few yearbooks a year (for whatever classes are having as big reunion) and it’s a pain. For modern yearbooks (70s and later) we have a dozen or more copies, so we take one apart and feed it through the feed scanner, which works well. We then store the loose pages in a folder, in case we need to rescan anything.

Older yearbooks (where we don’t have so many copies) we use the flatbed scanner and the pages come out warped, so we hand fix each page in Photoshop.

Vivian is pretty chill from what I can tell.

They’re giving “did they die of it or with it?” vibes. (actual thing I was asked about my father’s COVID-19 death. Apparently since he was immunocompromised his death didn’t ‘count’.)

I tried! Turns out I get to wait until I’m 45. Having a great-aunt and great-grandma with colon cancer isn’t enough. The great aunt died in her 30s of colon cancer, iirc.

(not the person you asked) tbh, we have an awesome local video game store that does repairs. I’d ask them. They replaced the laser on my partner’s PS2 when it stopped reading discs.

Or, check ifixit.com and see if there’s a walkthrough for your device.

Libraries are where many folks go to to access government resources. My local DMV (department of motor vehicles) restricted services to by-appointment-only a few years back and, if you needed help making an appointment, their call center directed you to the local library. Note: they did not warn the local libraries they were doing this.

Anyways, you should have seen this asshole come in to get assistance. My co-worker helped him and was polite about it, but told me afterwards that he’d been spearheading the local “defund the library” initiative. Turns out we are good for something even if you buy your own books. Dickhead.

I’m on Windows 11 for work and am not happy about it. They took away my 2-level taskbar, among other regressions.

kagi at least tries to remove ai slop and gives you the means to report it.

What I don’t understand is YouTube showing me constant ads for something I’ve already bought and like. I’m not buying more earplugs, compression socks, and sports shorts any time soon.

I’ve taught more than one college student how to Ctrl+c/Ctrl+v.

I’m also with an offline mini. I’m still happy with it, it does what I need it to do, but I’ll likely go with Prusa if it ever needs replacing.

Depends on the state or municipality. My last few states charged an annual car tax. My current one charges it at the town level.

I’m face blind and your methods of telling people apart sound very similar to mine. I don’t use odor but I do use gait. I also often just assume that I know someone if they act like they know me, and I play along until I figure out who they are.

I also didn’t like hearing my name much until I changed it. Now I’m happier to hear it, and even diminutive forms of it.

My steam family polycule has one person that streams games and gets given many, many steam keys. Highly recommend, I have access to a wide selection of mostly queer cozy games.

I mostly buy multiplayer games so we can all play them together. I also buy the dlc for things I really like. Shout-out to Spirit City: Lofi Sessions, which tbh is more of a soundtrack than a game.

Solid example. I could pay Lyrasis to host an instance of Archivesspace for me. They’d control updates, backups, etc, I’d just use the web interface to manage my archival collections.

OR I could rent a server, install Archivesspace myself (it’s open source), sysadmin it myself, take on all that headache and control.

They’re both in the cloud, but one’s software as a service (SAaS) and the other is just a Linux box on someone else’s machine. The second is cheaper in my experience, but only if you have someone that can sysadmin it. Otherwise you’ve got a learning curve ahead of you.

(it’s late, so feel free to tell me I’ve misread the thread).

In unrelated news: isn’t the USA looking into using AI to assist air traffic controllers in controlling air traffic?

Vivaldi also has tab groups.

might one say “one for the cock, one for the lock”?