What's a home fries? Isn't fries just short for french fries? I don't speak american

American political ideology as a whole has shifted left in recent years

What the fuck is this bullshit. This is the opposite of what has happened.

I had to help my sister keep her 8 year old Mac going or buy a new secondhand (cheap) machine. With the options out there and with the state of Windows, I didn't even consider it.

She's ended up with her same 8 year old Mac with Ubuntu 24.04, and I've been really impressed with how it's actually great for non-technical users these days! And works really well on old hardware.

This should give her another few years of life out of the thing without worrying about software support.

I'll do the reverse - I think most people would expect homebrewing beer to be quite hard to get started with, but for $50 you can get everything you need to start making a really quite good beer, and save money at the same time (homebrewed beer is usually much cheaper than store bought)

If you want to get started search for "brew in a bag" and buy a kit beer mix. You'll need a handful of equipment like a brew bag and fermenter, but that stuff is really cheap.

Then you can indeed go down a massive rabbit hole of refinements, but it just amazed me that the first beer you make will already be a good one.

What's the point of installing the app then? Just use netflix in a browser if you're going to use netflix. The only reason you even needed the stupid app was to use the download feature

That's not your stomach. Those noises are your intestines. Poop. It's poop noises

You don't need to use an Apple account with Mac computers, and it doesn't even try very hard to convince you to either

Everything on this list is still being taught to my kids (NZ). Phonics is still the best way to teach reading. Every new stupid fad dies out and they come back to phonics.

I'm pretty surprised they're learning cursive though. Wtf

Wow am I the only gamer who had no idea you could organise games into groups in steam? It never even occurred to me to look for this feature

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_change_(idiom)

"and so" is perfectly valid as a conjunction for implying causation. "Thus" would be a synonym. It fits better than "and also" which doesn't imply causation and so isn't the right word.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/so#dictionary-entry-2

Better article: https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/29/google_python_flutter_layoffs/

I'm enjoying it, mostly. It's definitely great at some tasks and terrible at orhers. You get a feel for what those are after a while:

1. Throwaway projects - proof of concepts, one-off static websites, that kind of thing: absolutely ideal. Weeks of dev becomes hours, and you barely need to bother reviewing it if it works.

2. Research (find a tool for doing XYZ) where you barely know the right search terms: ideal. The research mode on claude.ai is especially amazing at this.

3. Anything where the language is unfamiliar. AI bootstraps past most of the learning curve. Doesn't help you learn much, but sometimes you don't care about learning the codebase layout and you just need to fix something.

4. Any medium sized project with a detailed up front description.

What it's not good for:

1. Debugging in a complex system
2. Tiny projects (one line change), faster to do it yourself
3. Large projects (500+ line change) - the diff becomes unreviewable fairly quickly and can't be trusted (much worse than the same problem with a human where you can at least trust the intent)

Not really sure what this means. I'm not really aware of anything I'm missing out on. If you don't want to use their cloud storage (which you have to pay extra for) there's no need to have an apple account. All the apps I use work fine locally

Have never had any interest in playing multiplayer games, (except coop with actual IRL friends, which is obviously amazing)

Why would anyone want to play against strangers on the internet? Sounds just really stressful. No thanks

On a macbook? You can't plug a normal keyboard in without a USB hub because there's no USB-A port

If you ever have to cut a bit of wood to act as a diagonal brace it's pretty useful to whip out the old tan. So I've used this every time I built a gate.

That's four times in the last decade, so not exactly daily but I'm glad I knew how to do it or my gates would have sucked.

Github has an option to show private commits in these graphs though

Maybe in modern media. He's definitely not portrayed as an equal or opposite to God in the bible. He's just another angel

For me it's more like 95% or more. In the last year I've played

• Factorio (heavily)
• Halflife
• Halflife 2
• Portal 2
• Supreme Commander
• Rimworld
• World of Goo
• Untitled Goose Game
• Railway Empire

I don't think I've played many games that are younger than 6 years.

Most of the good games have been made already