Don Draper: "It's toasted"

Morning doesn't necessarily equal when you wake up :-) As a night owl, I *hate* mornings. I feel my best 9 p.m. - midnight. In an ideal world, I would wake up around noon, but work means I need to be up by 7 a.m.

I second this. Install the Coreboot firmware. I installed ChromeOS Flex in a cheap Dell Chromebook 11 3181 (1.6 GHz Celeron N3060, 4 GB RAM, 16 GB eMMC, 1366x768 screen) that I got in Feb. 2019, and it has worked pretty well. The only issue is that the built-in speakers no longer work. USB or HDMI or Bluetooth audio all work, though. Windows 10 could also install--thanks to Coreboot--but would be very slow.

"All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection" (A famous aphorism of Butler Lampson that is attributed to David Wheeler)

I had a friend living in a rural area who was finally able to switch from satellite internet to service from a T-Mobile tower. He was testing out Hulu, but he was running into problems where it kept thinking his location had changed (due to the dynamic IP address). VPN didn't really help since he wanted certain local stations, and the VPN city choices were all far away. He ended up going with YouTube TV.

According to the TM 5G Home Internet FAQ: "Streaming services that rely on IP address for specific location data to deliver live TV are not compatible with T-Mobile Home Internet. This includes Hulu Live and Sling Live TV. YouTube TV supports required location data, and will work seamlessly with T-Mobile Internet."

Reminds me of this video: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FTGr8bMTSD4s People can provide benefits to others, benefits to themselves, losses to others, and losses to themselves.

This article is well worth reading. Thanks to the meticulous field work of Clair Patterson, we know about the levels of lead exposure: The Most Important Scientist Youâ(TM)ve Never Heard Of

reminds me of this Cyanide and Happiness video

Programmer for Kirby's Dream Land on GameBoy said the development environment didn’t even have keyboard support, meaning values had to be input using a trackball and an on-screen keyboard

The Far Side comic Gary Larson was maybe a decade early on predicting the industry of video game speedrunners becoming millionaires by streaming on Twitch and YouTube....

Dependency https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F2347

I always assumed "Amazon Choice" meant an item was popular, e.g., lots of people are buying it because it is often among the least expensive items in its class. If everyone is buying it, then it must be good, right?

You are confusing Visual Voicemail with Voicemail transcription. Visual Voicemail means you don't have to dial your voicemail then press buttons like 1 to replay message 2 to skip to next message, etc.; instead, you get see a list of the voicemails showing who they are from, time left, and message duration. Then you can cherry-pick a message to listen to.

Voicemail transcription, on the other hand lets you read the message without having to listen to it. This is especially useful when you have old relatives who like to leave two-minute-long messages....

Reminds me of the famous Donald Knuth quotation: Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.