TheHarpyEagle

I agree that most people won’t care but take issue with calling them “dumb”. Everyone has a limited amount of time on this planet to build skills and chase hobbies. A lot of people on this site have tech-related jobs and hobbies, so of course this matters to us. I might expect someone who buys pre-built gaming PCs to keep this on their radar, but the vast majority of folks who use computers as email and social media machines, including those who only use it for data entry type jobs, have little reason to care about the specifics of their CPU or any other single component of their computer. If their computer breaks, that’s annoying, but that’s life. They’ll spend the same amount on a new laptop as we might spend on a new CPU and get on with their day.

I don’t know what brand of spark plugs are in my car, and maybe a mechanic or car enthusiast would find that dumb. But hey, I’m too busy caring about my CPU to spend time worrying about my car unless it breaks.

Use my desktop for gaming, use my laptop for development and travel. It’s nice to be able to sit in the living room while someone is playing a game, or sit out on the patio while I work on something.

I also recommend trying out FreeCAD and seeing which clicks with you. I found FreeCAD’s sketch system more intuitive, though you have to be pretty careful about your order of operations while building your hierarchy.

It’s wild to me that there are wild macaws in northern South America. Granted I haven’t seen them in person, but even videos of them look so weird, like a hundred people let their pets out on accident.

There’s actually a “proper” order of adjectives in English!

https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/In-a-Word/2021/0921/Explaining-the-royal-order-of-adjective-placement

It’s not something ever learn directly, but nonetheless we all seem to inherently know it. Why this order? Who knows! It’s one of many weird quirks of our language (and some others). It’s certainly a hard thing for non-native speakers to pick up on.

I got a Brother embroidery machine only to find that making anything other than the most basic patterns required a very pricey proprietary program. Thankfully I found Ink/Stitch, an open source plug-in for InkScape. It’s still a little rough around the edges, but after getting used to its foibles, it’s very capable with the right amount of elbow grease. The main dev is active and very helpful in their issues.

Here in darkness, everything’s okay. Listen to the waves and let them fade away. Here comes a thought.

Here Comes a Thought from Steven Universe was genuinely life-changing for me. It’s all about mindfulness and allowing yourself to process negative thoughts without punishing yourself for having them.

This episode came when I was really struggling with anxiety, like multiple crying breakdowns a week. It finally lead me to getting therapy and I’m in a much better place now, but I still come back to it when I’m feeling overwhelmed.

My own drill (and an assortment of other power tools). Part of me still feels like I shouldn’t be allowed to use a drill even as an adult, but I get more joy than is reasonable from hanging stuff on my walls. Such an efficient use of vertical space!

Not deaf/HOH, but I’ve watched some signed translations out of curiosity and even to me it seems different. They do things like indicating the feeling of music, matching their facial expressions to the characters’, and sometimes forgoing a direct translation to confer the mood of a phrase.

Even when you’re watching a subbed movie/show, you have the emotion of the voice performance to influence how you read the words. I imagine it’s the same for signed VS subbed translations (to anyone who signs, please correct me if I’m wrong).

Otis Redding. I didn’t realize until recently that he died so young, I would’ve loved to see how the rest of his career turned out. His voice had such a special quality.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine feels that way to me. Not that I think it’s a particularly bad show, but I definitely feel like the memes spawned from it already contain the funniest parts of the show. The actual content of each episode is kinda predictable with the protagonist learning stone sort of lesson.

Also I so desperately wanted to get into Bojack Horseman because I love animation, puns, and to cry while watching shows. The memes showed so many really deep and interesting moments, but by the end of the third season, I just couldn’t stand to watch Bojack learn a lesson only to revert to being a complete asshole an episode later. I get that’s kind of the point, but it was more infuriating than engaging.

::: spoiler Same! It’s such a bittersweet ending after the slow realization through the game that there’s nothing you can do about the death of the universe. Having everyone back together one last time before the birth of a whole new world is so incredible. I was also pretty giddy when I finally got to meet a Nomai. :::

Playing Outer Wilds, spoilers ahead:

::: Minor Outer Wilds spoilers I was trying to see how far into space I could get before the time loop restarted. As I flew away, I aimed my signalscope back towards the solar system and listened to all the instruments play together. Then when the supernova hit, one by one, the instruments were silenced. :::

That game is full of so many great moments of discovery and realization in that game, I wish I could play it for the first time again.

It’s weird to think that less than a year ago, AI could barely generate hand-like blobs in the right place.

Ah, the classic digimon evolution line: blob -> little -> big -> fridge -> gun and/or tits

Gundams, however, are real. Exhibit A:

Reddit is absolutely the worst for excessive padding. Here’s your padded search page, let’s open your thread in it with a padded modal! It’s no wonder they can’t load more than three nested comments before running out of horizontal space.

I hate how a lot of settings pages have stopped adding save/apply buttons, especially when they don’t provide any indication that your changes are being saved after each modification. Like do I just close this window? What if I want to cancel the changes?

Also more sites seem to be adding these reactive-only search bars that dynamically fetch results as you type. Looks cool I suppose, but it’s a huge pain in the ass when I want to add a search shortcut in Firefox and can’t because they don’t actually have a search URL.

I’m of two minds about this. While I definitely get the disdain for resource-hogging electron apps, it has lead to a boom of popular programs coming over to Linux when most developers previously didn’t bother to make or maintain a native app.

God, remember Fraps?