Be patient, and let the cat make the decisions. Food helps, but it's not enough, if you feed the cat but are not present, you are just feeding the cat (and who knows what else). We have had a few main pets that were strays. They make great pets IMO, they really appreciate the life you are giving thaem

I'm primarily interested in the opinions of people who are not at least one of male/hetero/cis; it's too easy for the privikeged group to delude themselves about how good they are behaving.

1. Musk pledges enormous amount to Trump
2. TSLA drops 10% immediately
3. "I don't subscribe to the cult of personality" No, you subscribe to the cult of money.

Starting the pool on how long till TFG forgets who he's now running against and starts rantng about Biden at a rally.

Everything in a corporation exists to benefit the corporation.

Q-Tips. Paper shafts, plenty of fuzz on the ends.

Apparently its already happened.. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/7/22/2256891/-Trump-refuses-to-accept-he-s-not-running-against-Biden-anymore

Look, the fascists are having a barroom brawl. Pass the popcorn, would you?

It's not trying to make money from me.

Everyone should listen to their favorite Shellac song in honor of Steve. Loud, in public.

Music (but not a very good musician), other cultures and international travel, history.

They only wish, that's why they are so angry.

Old consumer electronics. Good to practice reflashing on old phones or tablets, if you brick one, it was trash anyway. Sometimes you can pull useful components off old computer boards.

I went back to my hometown last summer. I had not been there in decades. My sisters, who live nearby, both could not understand why. I ended up leaving ahead of plans, there was not much to do, and the place is economically defunct, none of my family or friends lives there anymore. I did reconnect with an old friend who lives nearby, which made the whole trip worthwhile. On the flip side, I now live in a pretty, affluent community. My son, 3 years out of college, comes home to visit, and in spite of being nostalgic, and wanting to visit his old haunts, says it's not home anymore. We have done practically nothing to his old room, except he took a lot of the furniture with him. You are not the same you as when you were younger. The place isn't the same either.

Disappointed. The killer is the lack of a working driver for the onboard WiFi. They say this is a priority, but no checkin on the github page for months. It works tethered to a phone, or with a USB network adapter, but that's not good for my use case. Touch integration in Linux is not really there, and the snap on keyboard is kind of thin and floppy. That said, I have a Quartz board that is excellent. The pine guys have excellent technology, but maybe their manufacturing vendors are better at circuit boards than finished products.

Piracy is increasingly becoming the only reasonable answer.

12, but it's complicated. I was a freelancer for a long time, count that as one job, but I had dozens of customers. I quit one place and went back, and 2 employers have been acquired while I worked there, count all those as one each. Not counting summer or part times while in school. This is all over the span of 44 years, so I'm a little quicker than your 4 years on average. The shortest one was a little less than a year; it was a mistake to take the job in the first place. IMO, switching jobs is the biggest, maybe the only, leverage a worker has vs an employer. If you don't have a credible alternative to your job, they know that, and know they can victimize you.

I tried Lineage (actually /e/OS) on a Samsung phone, and it was great, except voice calling did not work. It turns out that the Samsung VoLTE hardware has never been figured out by open source devs. Graphene looks interesting, I may trade in my phone to try it.

Likewise, I use vi for sysadmin work, and a big IDE (VSCodium) for writing code.

New York fit that pretty well. I think Chicago does too. DC, Seattle, Boston are all recommended. Have not done that kind of trip in Atlanta or Philadelphia, but they are what you want.

Yes, of course. I'm not aware of any fully open source tablet that actually works - I got a PineTab2, but it's more like a mini laptop, and the onboard WiFi does not work, which is too bad.

Dry sherry in tomato sauce, soups, or anything with beef in it.

No. I'm more of a hoodie person.

Chicken nuggets.

My Black Ass

Likewise. I have been running it for years, almost no problem that I can think of. My setup is pretty vanilla, Apache, MySQL. It's running in a container behind a reverse proxy. I keep it as up to date as possible. Only 3 people use mine, and I don't use very many apps: files, notes, bookmarks, calendar, email.

Two things, one you care about and one you might not. The one you care about: you can set up a service in isolation. You can then test it, make sure it works, and switch over to it once you are sure, with almost no downtime. This is important for things you actually need to use. Once you do something like breaking your primary email server, you will understand. Also, less important, you can set up a service on, say, a VM at home, and move it to a VPS, without having to transfer the entire image, and it will work the same. The one you don't care about. That last bit about moving servers around is important for cloud providers who turn these things on and off all the time.

I already am the best at something, but if I tell you, somebody would know...

I was using MyFitnessPal, but now enshittified, which is why I'm asking.

People who want to get on the leader board should consider that your FICO score is a measure of how much lenders can profit off of you.

Yellow American or brown German on sausages. Dijon mixed in salad dressing and sauces.

I am sure they are aware of it. I think it's like us and horses: yes, this creature is much larger and could hurt or kill me if it wanted to, but horses are basically cool and friendly and we trust them.
I've been with my SO for more than 4 years, and I often don't understand her motivations either.

I pursued Zen seriously for a while, I still practice at times, should do it more.

Ooh, thanks, I should have checked that.

I really liked /e/Lineage on the phone, but no VoLTE means it's not a phone in my case.

Top day also, usually, except Active in channels where I don't look that often.

Agree. Quit twice, the 2nd time was real bad. Now I am a stereotypical hardcore ex smoker. Get away from me with that stuff.

Iced espresso. Double shot in a glass of ice, top up with cold water to taste. A little sugar. My own roast. I think it's excellent.

1. Control and privacy. The server does exactly what I choose, not somebody's business model.
2. Once you have other users, it's not a hobby anymore. People are not amused by downtime.
3. The w3schools.com tutorials have been good for me.