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I struggled with the Moonlander although it is a wonderful keyboard.

I mapped it to a Colemak layout varient when I first got it. I was constantly discovering key combos that didn't quite work for whatever reason and made tweaks to the layout or the shortcuts in various editors. Forever tying my brain in knots learning and relearning mappings and combos. Then I'd frequently jump on other peoples computers/laptops to help out with small things and have to switch back to the old mode of thinking.

It ended up being a productivity sink rather than a boon. I don't know whether I would have crossed some inflection point if I had persevered, but there was always this fixed cost of tweaking shortcuts when using new software that was more burdensome than with a plain qwerty keyboard.

Maybe I was too ambitious and should have avoided the Colemak-esque layout, but I haven't managed to summon the stamina to give it a fair go again. I still use one half of it for gaming though. It's really sweet for that.

I have the makedo and the screws are legit amazing. I never imagined that they could possibly work so well. It's one of those things I always recommend to other parents.

The very real downside is that your kids become attached to their creations. So you end up with a house perpetually full of cardboard and fighting a constant battle to part with some of it.

In Australia a company called REDcycle supposedly recycled soft plastics from all the major supermarkets. After a decade or so operating the business collapsed and it was discovered that they had about 11,000 tonnes of the stuff stockpiled in 40+ warehouses across the country because they hadn't figured out how to recycle it.

I've used NextDNS.io in the past and setup schedules to block the reddit domain during work hours.

The problem that I found is that sometimes it's not just a place of procrastination but the place you want to search for a useful answer to your question.

Pause and resume across devices even. Pure psychological torture.

Close your laptop and then pick up your phone later and it resumes right where you last saw it. You immediately put your phone down to cut it off because you want to relax. Go make a cup of tea then sit down on the couch and turn on the TV for a minute...

It resumes.

Oh wow, this is truely sad news.

I only recently went down the homelab/selfhosted path and the majority of my containers were setup using tteck's scripts.

That's a great idea! I'm kicking myself for not thinking of it because I did the opposite for my toddler to let him know when it was okay to get up in the morning (otherwise he'd be up before 5am). I had a dim red as a whole room nightlight that transitioned to dim yellow-green to signal that is was now okay to get up.

I didn't know that "revenge bedtime procrastination" was a term but it definitely describes me.

I have to set an alarm for bedtime, but I still struggle with being disciplined about it.

Something similar happened in Australia on a large scale. A soft plastic (single use shopping bag) recycling company called REDcycle which partnered with all the major supermarkets was discovered to be just stockpiling it in warehouses. They'd been doing that for about a decade before they were discovered.

Ambulance personnel/paramedics very much do this, in Australia at least.

They never run, never rush, and don't get sucked in to the panic and chaos.

I'm curious if people actually use the IR in place of their TV remote as in the promo. For me personally, I think the friction of having to fire up an app first would preclude me from ever using it in earnest.

I was very much in the Google ecosystem and although privacy became an increasing concern, the final push for me was the horror stories who had their accounts suspended or were otherwise locked out with no recourse.

Could these changes be attributed to smoke inhalation?

I played with the python PRAW package to scrub old comments a while ago. Even iterating through the different sorts (new/hot/controversial/etc) I could remove everything there, but different comments would appear there after some time.

My theory was Reddit ran batch jobs on some cadence (daily maybe?) to generate the topN comments lists for each users profile page. Running my script a couple of times over a several days seemed to clear everything.

I love the idea (as long as they are not rare out of print books). Then burn the loose pages of all the books you've scanned in a bonfire to complete the ritual. The books have now transcended the physical realm and it felt really wrong while doing it. History warns us that people will be next, are they right?

In addition to the previously mentioned places, it is grown in Tasmania, Australia too (https://shimawasabi.com.au/pages/about).

I believe they're asking, "why go to the effort when 'euthanizing' them would be easier and cheaper?"

I'm surprised at the amount of negativity in the comments. I use several of the tools and they are great. They do one thing well and don't have the feature bloat that a lot of apps suffer from.

I only recently discovered his letter to Nora Barnacle professing his fondness of her farts. Quite possibly the funniest thing that I have ever read, although I did feel a tinge of guilt since it was never intended for the public.

We need a style guide for hand gestures.

The state run Perth Mint in Australia created a gold backed crypto 2019 and they are already trying to shut it down.

It's think it's very fitting. The dung beetle is the worldly embodiment of Sisyphus. Doomed to forever push a boulder uphill only for it to roll down again when he was near the top.

I used to believe that it was harmless and wasn't somthing that could lead to dependency, but browsing the r/leaves and r/Petioles subreddits has shifted that attitude. Not just the personal accounts but the sheer number of subscribers was quite suprising to me.

30C swimming pool! That's a hot bath!

What would she do to him? Make him conjugate irregular French verbs?

The first time I heard about this a friend told me that they had been to an Edinburgh celebration and everyone was blind drunk. People would line up shot glasses of Scotch on the curb and you could buy them off them by the foot. This was about 25 years ago, I'm not sure if this still holds true.

> As a Digital Vegan...

I can now cross "involuntary shoot cappuccino out of my nostrils" off of my bucket list. I don't think that I've ever read a more loaded sentence opener.

97 years old and tried in a juvenile court was a plot twist that I wasn't expecting.