I haven’t had windows for 5 or 6 years when I switched to Mac. But earlier this year I bought a cheap Windows 11 machine because Windows was required for a contract I thought I was going to get (but didn’t). I was going to return it but thought meh it might be nice to have a personal laptop I can play around with. But I was unimpressed with Windows 11 so much that it mostly gathers dust now.

I’m thinking this is the perfect opportunity to take the plunge into Linux. Has anyone on here used Linux and have any advice?

Yah I don’t think we should either.

This is probably intended to be tongue-in-cheek, but meal planning is the answer. Block off some time (Sunday evenings are popular), to figure out all your meals for the week, make a list of everything you need to make all the dishes on the menu, go to the store and buy all that stuff and nothing else, make ahead and freeze any meals that you can and do any prep work ahead of time that you can.

Viola: intentional eating, less waste, and always something on hand to eat.

It changed my life in a lot of positive ways.

So, China likes 2-state solutions?

Asking for Taiwan.🇹🇼

Yeah, but some things are. It’s like, things are either a binary choice or they’re not. Whoa 🤯

“If you guys damage the US economy, I will do even more damage to the US economy.”

—stable genius

If it makes you feel better, I don’t think the misunderstanding was on your end. Although I agree probably the dad told the hotel that, it was actually phrased like the hotel told the dad that.

As frustrating as it can be, some day you’re going to miss getting those phone calls. 😢

Leopards, face-eating, and whatnot.

Gift link for the NYT article if I did that right.

If you are surprised by this you probably have a poster of Ayn Rand on your wall.

This is the kind of stuff you see on a Netflix series and think, “OK they’ve really jumped the shark this time.”

Yah and cold fusion is right around the corner.

I want him to get the help that he needs. Not because I sympathize with him to any degree (I don’t). But because I want him to stop ruining everything.

I don’t know anything about UK law but in my observations, giant corporations with tons of cash and armies of lawyers solicitors do what they want. I could be wrong but it is just my cynical view, not legal advice.

Gosh if only Meta hd money for lawyers, they could squish this like a bug. Oh, yeah. They do have money for lawyers. Tons of it.

How can it not? If you have a $40k system, you will make enough electricity to avoid paying for electricity at all. You will probably even get a small check from the power company every month. Add up the check and the old utility bill and I bet it beats bank interest on 40k by a mile. Not to mention you are probably eligible for some tax incentives.

If I’m lucky I can manage to keep the eyeroll and smirk on the inside. I’m kind of inelegant with social graces though.

It’s about time. I have been fed up with religion since 1978.

I no longer use mine for much but to control one light with an illogical switch placement. I could pretty much replace her with The Clapper™️