I had very constructive arguments about this with my grandma :

• Can you fetch one the green tiles ?
• What green tile ? You only have blue ones.
• Goes to fetch it herself. See ? A tile, and it’s green.
• But it’s clearly blue…
• I don’t know what you mean, can’t you see that it’s green ?
• I can see very clearly that it’s blue.
• No this is green, this is blue, and the tile is closest to green.
• It isn’t though, it’s definitely closest to blue.
• A while later
• This is pointless… Let’s just call it turquoise.
• Turquoise it is.
• The next time
• Your new oven mittens are quite nice, the blue goes well in your kitchen.
• They are green…

Rice cooker saved my life. I add whatever I have lying around that doesn’t require cooking like ham, pickles, canned veggies or fruits, fresh or dried fruits, etc, and if I’m feeling fancy I might boil eggs. Plus mushroom sauce, oyster sauce, fish sauce, or soy sauce. If you can find black rice in asian supermarkets it’s even better.

Thanks for the tip ! ❤️

yeah my problem is not with having a standard, but with choosing USB-C for it instead of something better.

I get that USB-C was probably the more pragmatic choice since it already existed and a lot of devices were already using it. But I’m still team “Let’s make a new good standard rather than use one that’s just okayish”

Twitter… wait no that would actually a good thing to force people to step back even only for a few seconds

Never tried it but it sounds good !

After further reflection, the hill I’ll die on is that we should replace ALL types of USB by barrel jacks, not only USB-C. Cause circular connectors rule! Make a standard one, I don’t care, as long as I never have to plug a USB-A three times to find the right way.

Thanks for the tip I’ll try that ! I’ve had the same problem on a tablet, but there it was definitely caused by the port being bend out of shape (it won’t be horizontal) so I had assumed it was the same problem on the laptop. But I’ll try cleaning it to see if it fixes it ! I assume a toothpick or something else or wood or plastic would be better than metal ?

Having devices require a USB-C charger might be great for small devices, but it’s awful for laptops. That thing is so flimsy it’s only a matter of time until it starts having faulty contacts. I’ve had one for a year and now it connects/disconnects everytime I touch the cable. Gimme back my huge Dell barrel jacks 😭 😭 😭

Not looking at my keyboard when typing. I switched to colemak last year, and since then I’ve managed to get into the habit of typing without looking. Which is very useful now that my keyboard stickers are starting to come off so it shows some letters twice and others not at all 😅

Same as every day :

• Make a To Do li… oh squirrels !

Aeon Flux. For a weird experimental cartoon, it’s very good and very weird. I could rewatch it forever.

Yes same in France… we have the saying “en Avril ne te découvre pas d’un fil” (in April don’t remove any clothing) because it’s supposed to still randomly get very cold very quickly 😭

I fear that in 10 years we’ll all be climate refugees in Iceland or Canada

If you mean climate change, all-time high economic disparity and fascism, then yes… but hey at least it’s home-grown fascism. For most people, only german fascism is bad, apparently.

I don’t know about other countries, but in France we are perfectly capable of home-growing our own brand of awfulness. No need to import any from the US, thank you very much.

Yep, no words needed.

It’s late April and already starting to get hot, I’ll soon need an electric fan and in one month it won’t be enough. Half the year is unbearable, and it’s only going to get worse with time.

That would depend on whether Mozilla would still get the Google bribe to make it the default search engine, which is their main source of income. Without it they are fucked anyway even without all the new users forcing them to scale up