Of all the things I can criticize about Trump, the type of laptop his lawyer for this week is using is far down on that list.

Cheap CarPlay tablet for my car, far cheaper than replacing the head unit but the quality of life update has been well worth it.

Secondary education did a pretty good job, but I’d say that was more on the teachers than the curriculum. I got very lucky in that regard. My community college for my BTEC, same, the one teacher who taught me how to properly write reports and assignments was really good at ensuring we cited everything properly, and gave extra marks.

I’d just deal with the lack of sleep and be tired the next day.

In theory I could just move back to England, but right now I’m quite happy where I’m at. If a job opportunity came up, who knows?

Still works with Windows 10 keys, however. Makes sense since Windows 8 and earlier are EOL now. Also, you don’t have to activate Windows if you don’t want to, it’ll just bug you occasionally.

They introduced themselves, nice people. The lady across the street drives my Mother-in-law to her appointments when we can’t.

My wife caught it at work, about six months into the pandemic. Was inevitable, since she works in a grocery store. She woke up with a fever and no sense of taste or smell, and then went downhill with really bad flu like symptoms from there. I started with the same thing the next day. Main illness lasted two weeks, but the worst part was the first week by far. My wife was sick for almost 6 weeks and ended up on an inhaler for a while until her lungs healed. Neither of us got our full taste back for almost 2 years, and our smell hasn’t fully recovered yet either (about 80% now).

We both tested positive again last June, got a mandatory week off work but the only symptom was a mild fever. Wouldn’t have even known I was sick, but a family member tested positive and we’d been to visit so took a test and there I was. I’d been vaccinated by that point, so I’m going to go out on a limb and say the vaccination did what it was supposed to do with keeping me from being sick.

Maybe try changing her litter? Sounds like she doesn’t like it.

Said I could come back the next day, as it turned out I was busy that day so I passed the following day instead. I failed because I got over confident backing out of a parking spot an nudged a cone. Or, as he put it, I murdered a toddler. Fair enough. We did the backing up thing first so I could get that out of the way, the rest of the test was easy.

I’ve never heard of a weird secret code to force you to fail, just relax and don’t run over any toddlers, I mean cones, and I’m sure you’ll be just fine!

Plenty of people had broadband, I was one of the first to get it in 1998. A whole 512Kbit.

The US has no issue with the metric system, and most engineering and scientific people switched decades ago. The military is mostly all metric too. The general public of the US is a harder nut to crack, asking a population of stubborn freedom lovers to change something they’ve known their whole life is damn near impossible.

I switch my stuff to metric all the time, and the usual response isn’t “oh that’s interesting”, it’s nearly always, “the fuck is wrong with you, why would you want that weird shit?!”. If the government suddenly made all weather reports metric, the T-Shirt sellers would all become millionaires overnight from selling anti-metric slogans.

No motion sickness, but most VR games make me disorientated after a while and I just don’t enjoy them very much. They’re fun for a couple of hours once in a great while, but I never see myself doing it as a daily hobby.

Been using this online handle for 30 years now, I’d say pretty attached!

Right now it’s an idea, but Musk’s ideas tend to become reality more often than not. I already stopped Twitter, they do this I’ll be gone for good.

I’ve tried every other browser, and I keep coming back to Firefox because it’s reliable, has a low memory footprint, and isn’t run by some evil corporation.

I don’t care what he does with it at this point.

Whole bunch of low cost 8-bit machines in that era, the Dragon 32, Commodore 64 and Amstrad CPC ranges to name but a few. Of course we must also mention the BBC Micro, was not low cost but every school had one if you grew up in the UK.

“Only had BBCs”. The best 8-bit computer of their generation? ONLY had a BBC? You have any idea how lucky we were growing up with those amazing machines in the 80s-90s? I owe my whole career to the BBC, with an honorable mention to the ZX Spectrum I had at home.

Even today, they’re still in use.

Shut up and take my money!