good on ya for playing it through instead of just correcting him on the spot

I give a crap about the lost content. finding tech support just isn’t the same now

no, only having sex with women is gay now, didn’t you hear

don’t forget to not buy new. buy a used device whenever possible, unless you specifically want to support a particular company

there is an argument to be made for preventing further money being made by giving it to someone who will otherwise buy it new, but then you also have to consider additionally exposure if you give it to someone who wouldn’t otherwise have bought it…

you’re limiting your interpretation of rape to a single definition. there are multiple, and this certainly fits as one

your Sienna isn’t much bigger than my car (also an 08) despite having twice the cargo volume. vans rule. my buddy’s similar year Sienna treated our group well as a hauler to many events, rain snow or shine, with multiple people and gear.

I love driving next to vehicles where my head doesn’t go above their wheel well. fuck, some stock trucks have that height these pasts few years. and it’s not like I drive a Miata… for fuck’s sake even a BRZ is smaller than my car. and a (old) Miata is like half the size of a BRZ

dude I lose my Subaru Outback sometimes

newer ones will park next to me and they dwarf it in size, everything is taller and wider and longer

edit: not the topic, but there was one time I lost it in a small parking lot because a truck had parked next to me, and another Outback in the same colour, year, window tint, and general condition had parked on the other side of that truck — so mine was hidden by the truck. I went to the back and was trying to open it for like twenty seconds before I heard mine unlock ten feet away (the fob receiver sucks and it doesn’t work half the time, which didn’t help the situation). that is the only time in eight years that I have confused another car for mine. one of the actually great perks about driving an older car, nobody else has one just like it.

huh that looks like a fun game

yep

I don’t have much against small scale capitalism - the kind your neighbour likes because his brother works hard to run a business

but mega corp infinite growth — fuuuuuuck that shit, that’s a cancer

lmao I love when it’s just a dumb little thing like that

you did make me realize that that may not be quite so obvious anymore, though, with how they constantly change menus and setting names around. how many other things that we’ve learned over years & years of using Windows are just different in future versions, or not possible any more. and how many of those things were ever obvious settings in the first place, rather than ‘common knowledge’ learned from years of familiarity

just MS things. changing things for no apparent reason to make it worse to use and also remove existing features that people actually liked

wait, did they do away with the primary monitor designation?

isn’t that like the only thing that makes a “primary monitor” special - the taskbar? why can’t you just set another monitor as primary?

I don’t use win11, if it’s not obvious, lol

re: keystroke focus - you’re not just getting old, programs are getting shittier about pulling focus when they shouldn’t

I work on several screens on several tasks at once typically as well, and it’s infuriating when one program pulls focus as I’m typing a sentence into something else, and worse when it does so and accepts the input of my rapid keystrokes to do whatever the fuck all those hotkeys are on the thing that pulled focus

yes

some people want it but also can’t handle it because they don’t believe it

self hatred does things to people

I’ve used that shampoo before.

good stuff.

one thing that makes me feel better about tasks like this is that I try to double them up with general cleanup

I made a mess of my garage fiddling with all the lathe stuff, but when I cleaned that up, I also did two other outstanding cleanup tasks in there, so it’s a net positive.

well, except for the wallet

new chuck works great, though. now if only I had a carriage and crosslide setup so I didn’t have to turn parts by hand like on a wood lathe, then I could get more accurate parts…

if it were liquefied