TheEmpireStrikesDak

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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • My budgie is BFFs with his reflection, as you’d expect. He loves me, but shows no reaction to my reflection. He is usually happy enough to make friends with other people, and he can tell me apart from others.

    But he never shows any reaction to my reflection, only his own. If we both stand by the mirror, he’ll tell his mirror friend about his day, he’ll tell my actual hand or nose, but it’s like he can’t even see the reflection of my hand. It’s weird.






  • Did you ever hear the tragedy of GNU Linux The Wise? I thought not. It’s not a story the Windows users would tell you. It’s a OSS legend. GNU Linux was a Dark Lord of the Open Source, so powerful and so wise he could use sudo to influence the midichlorians to install apps… He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying. The dark side of sudo is a pathway to many apps some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful… the only thing he was afraid of was losing his niche status, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. Ironic. He could save others from death, but not himself.

    (I’m a pretender still waiting for my Linux box to arrive. I’m sure someone can do a better job of this)



  • Anything creative, as a lot of people have suggested. It’s highly satisfying to see a finished product you crafted yourself. And they really make you get in the zone and hyperfocus.

    Scrapbooking is a good one. Sift through your photos, find some that bring back good memories and get them printed. Invest in a small spiral bound scrapbook, some acid-free coloured paper and decorations (you can get these from poundshops/dollar stores). Look at other people’s scrapbooks online and shamelessly copy their designs until you can come up with your own.

    Maybe you could even make some for the people you care about. Added bonus of being able to go over good memories with them. Maybe you can bring a smile to both of your faces.

    Another cute one is making models out of greyboard (the grey cardboard on the back of refill pads).

    Best of luck, I hope you feel better soon!



  • Yeah the infamous block editor. As an old skool hand-coder, I can’t stand it. You have to manually enable classic editing each time on WordPress.com otherwise it defaults to the Gutenberg editor. I heard it’s improved somewhat recently, but when I first used it it was the biggest load of crap, worse than the beep beep boop one, which was at least useable. It was both dumbed down and unintuitive at the same time.

    At least on a .org installation, classic editor disables Gutenberg completely.








  • Aww! I had a similar thing with my new 10 year old nephew when he was about 5 and I showed him a cassette. I told him you can put music on it. I’ve got a video of him turning it over and over, asking, “How do you get music from this? It’s a total mystery.”

    He and his siblings love old stuff. I’ve got them into the old 80s and 90s kid’s shows and the old games like Piranha and Commander Keen on DOSbox.

    (My oldest nephew is 20 now, and when I showed him my floppy disks he did indeed refer to them as
    “the save icon”.)