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Oh yeah, I love the "office suite". It reminds me of when I ran Linux and used some of the lighter, alternative office-type options (OpenOffice was so damn heavy and not all that p…

A note for any macOS n00bs out there getting M1s: the first rule of having crazy-good battery life on a MacBook is to use Safari . Chrome and Firefox eat battery (and memory, and C…

That they last so long (and, consequently, have high resale value even when they're several years old) is part of why Apple can charge so much in the first place. The resale-value …

I have to disable most of the Touch Bar (set it not to change with context, and replace most of it with a blank "spacer") to make it usable. I tend to just barely brush it when str…

Agreed that iOS7 was a big UX downgrade. It went from being the only OS I'd be halfway-comfortable turning older tech-illiterate relatives loose on, to yet another OS that would le…

Once you're above the grade of "cheese" that I'd suppose Europeans wouldn't recognize as such at all, even our low-end actual cheese in the US is incredibly expensive compared to (…

Looks worriedly and significantly at my sleeping cat .

Trouble is, lots of laptops are subtly (or not so subtly) damaged over time by extra stuff being closed in the lid. Apple laptops, notably, but plenty of others too. It'd be much b…

1) physical kill switch for camera (as in, it breaks the power or data connection to it, physically) or at least a physical cover. 2) physical kill switch for the microphone These …

The norm used to be never to post personal info online. Yes, some things could still be found out, and there were still attack vectors, but typing your real name in a web form, exc…

I've started searching for "ethnic" recipes in their home languages, because the English-language ones are often so badly under-spiced that the called-for amounts aren't even usefu…

> Prescriptivists never seem to add that clarifying nuance to their advice though. They often do, in my experience. AFAIK it hasn't been common to attempt any kind of real, strict …

A lot of writing rules are of the "follow it until you know how and when to break it" variety. That way if you never learn how to break them correctly, your writing is still a lot …

> Fiction and poetry vs whatever type of writing blogging is. Essayists, pamphleteers, and diarists (blogs), and aphorists (Twitter). Genres with centuries-long histories.

> I would argue that academic writing tends to be pretty poor. The above-namedropped David Foster Wallace certainly thought so. Among people who spend their days thinking about lan…

If they’re just warning but letting you proceed, that’s fine. They do that because they see looooots of people screwing up their own email addresses in a few common ways. Run any e…

Sports are another big reason parents want older kids to get to school earlier than younger kids (as they can't take everyone at once, or else you need way more busses)—longer dayl…

Yes, as is Pop Shell implemented on top of Gnome (mentioned in another comment). You can tell they've made some questionable decisions when you try to use Gnome on very weak hardwa…

> There are qualitative differences in response between people with and without ADHD, that manifest across the board, not just on few school metrics - and a psychiatrist will be ab…

> If you don't know this stuff first hand, please refrain from making broad statements about it. Unless all the kids illegally buying ADHD meds to do better in school when they hav…

> Well said, Cephalus, I replied; but as concerning justice, what is it? --to speak the truth and to pay your debts --no more than this? And even to this are there not exceptions? …

> ORY Kratos, as an example, will happily create different conceptual types of users and you can store arbitrary data in those user documents, but it is modified through an API and…

Around ‘08 or ‘09 they declared defeat in the Great Webspam War and decided webspam could rank highly as long as it didn’t get too nasty. The whole web (as far as searches results …

The effect of amphetamines on kids with ADHD is to improve school performance. The effect of amphetamines on kids without ADHD is to improve school performance. The effect of amphe…

Two of my kids (one a boy and one a girl) act absolutely nuts and "must" have something like ADHD... until you make sure they run around outside at least 4hrs a day, consistently. …