BrerChicken

Better call Saul!

I first used Linux in the late 90s, and it was just something that worked better on an older box. I installed Red Hat on an old 286 and the fun part was honestly getting it to work and learning about computers. Then one day I realized that I was spending all my free time working inside on this thing, but I was living on the water, in the Florida Keys, with access to boats and jet skis and pretty much anything. That had been my dream my whole life and all of a sudden I was living it. And I didn’t even have to be at work, right next door, until 10am. I was on a break from school then, and that’s actually what caused me to change my major from CS. I didn’t think it would be helpful to spend my whole life indoors!

Now I’m a physics teacher and I sometimes teach my 9th graders how to use Python for simple things like graphing. I love my life and I’m really thankful I keot computers as a hobby rather than as my profession.

Not with a sailor in the mix, it’s not!

I’m reading Truth of the Divine by Lindsay Ellis. It’s pretty good, and lots of novel ideas, but some of the sentences are better than others.

I had so much fun with that series!

I cringed when one creator mentioned giving up on her degree to focus on youtube. I mean, sure she’s making bank right now. But who knows how long that’ll last.

Unlike their YT career, that degree course will probably be there in five years. It’ll be more expensive, but it’s not gone forever or anything like that. For some opportunities you really have to strike while the iron is hot. For the record, I’m a HS teacher and I’ve had the “so you want to be a YouTuber for a living” conversation with countless students over the years, including with my own child. But for someone who’s starting to get some traction, and wants to take time off of school to see where it leads them, I think it’s an understandable move.

I haven’t been back on that website, through and app or not, since June 12th. A couple times a day I get links are search results and I simply won’t click on them. Fuck them.

The pledge was written, by a minister in 1891 without the “under God” part. It was added by Congress in 1954 in the midst of Macarthyism and the Red Scare. In 2002 an appeals court said that forcing public school students to recite it was went against the separation of Church and State, and it was but stayed. The Supreme Court overturned that in 2004, but I think a lot of schools may have dropped it then.

I’m 44 and grew up in Miami. We had the regular southern patriotism mixed with the Cubans who were very friggin thankful to be living in the US (including my family!) So you better believe we all said it! But the way I saw it, my parents and grandparents left Cuba so that we wouldn’t have to do that kinda of things in school. I love my country, but it’s crazy to put your hands over your heart and pledge every single morning, not to mention that under God part that was added only a couple of decades before I even started to say it.

As a big fan of Groenig’s “Life in Hell” comic strip, I just started saying one of his versions:

I plead alignment to the flakes of the untitled snakes of a merry cow, and to the republicans, for which they scam: one nacho, underpants with licorice and jugs of wine for owls.

This is an option on Lemmy, so you can always browse your magazines from a Lemmy instance 😉

But honestly, it’s only one tap at the top of the screen. That might be a good first script project–you can write your own!

knowing that I would be able to get full-quality images and videos from my family and my wife’s family without them having to change their messaging app to accommodate me, I decided to try iPhone for the first time since like, the 3GS.

This is the biggest pain for me, but my solution is different. I just ask them to share a link to an iCloud album, which is also asking them to make albums! So far it has worked pretty well, and they almost all appreciate having an album for related pictures. I think it’s insane that Apple does this on purpose.

Reciprocal is the fraction that, multiplied by the original, would give you 1. For example, the reciprocal of 2/3 is 3/2. If you multiply them you get 6/6, which is 1. It’s the same for 9/2 and 2/9. I always think of it is the “opposite fraction”, where you just flip the top and bottom numbers around.

Just because things cost money doesn’t mean that ads are the best way to pay for them, or that we have to accept advertising as part of the process. I ABHOR advertising, but I don’t mind signing up to support someone on Patreon, like I’m doing with the developer of the instance I’m on.

I’ve never been to a wedding reception where people don’t dance, so I’m not sure where this is coming from. Now, I was born and raised in Miami, but I’ve been in New England the last 12 years. So I’ve definitely seen a drop-off in terms of ability, but people are still dancing!

If you want to see the full list of which magazines your subscribed to, it’s in your profile. If you’re in the website you click/tap n your username and then choose profiles. Then you have to use the arrows to see more options at the top. If you keep hitting the arrow you’ll eventually get to “subscribed.” I think that’s what you’re looking for.

If you want to see the full list of which magazines your subscribed to, it’s in your profile. If you’re in the website you click/tap n your username and then choose profiles. Then you have to use the arrows to see more options at the top. If you keep hitting the arrow you’ll eventually get to “subscribed.” I think that’s what you’re looking for.

I’m not sure how you’re accessing kbin, but if it’s on the website you can click on the icon just to the left of your username, on the top right. Once you click/tap on that, you can choose subscribed.