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Her: is that Harry Potter you’re reading?

She approached me on the bus when I was commuting. It was a couple of decades ago when HP was new and fun. She was fun too, but we only went on a couple of dates.

I’m not surprised at all. At the time, I was trying to be as social as possible. If she’d stomped on my toe and then asked me out, I’d probably have said yes.

I thought I was smart/knowledgeable until I started working with people who really are smart/knowledgeable.

I tried to keep up and be one of them, but I do better when I just try to follow along with them and consider alternatives and implications of what they propose.

I wouldn’t say I’m the token idiot, but I have perspectives they don’t, and those are useful. Then again, that’s exactly what the token idiot would say.

I’m looking forward to pictures of the wildflowers. Good luck!

I screwed L-brackets (I think that’s what they’re called) into each place the frame joined. That also worked. The bed felt less wobbly after too, but I think that was just the halo effect.

Speaking for myself, it’s more like “I know I can look intimidating, and I don’t want you to feel uncomfortable, have a nice day”. I know there’s nothing wrong with me, but other people have had bad experiences.

Their generation is marked by a lack of impulse control and a deep inner rage that can often be triggered by trivial inconveniences. They also seem to have a vindictiveness to them that I never really understood, holding grudges far past their expiration date.

oh shit i might be a boomer

What was once nerd is nerd no longer, but as the wheel turns, what was nerd will be next once again.

I’m not 30-40 years old!

Google’s Deep Research AI produces similar output. I’m not saying the user definitely did that, I’m saying they could have used AI for that.

We’re early adopters. By definition: we’re nerds.

work harder

I don’t really use a mouse or window switcher, so I prefer the dedicated hotkey. It’s nice to have a single keystroke that brings me in or out of the same terminal across every desktop.

Before Tilde and friends, that’s what I use. I prefer having a drop-down with the same terminal session.

But that’s a handy default.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/285840/Enemy_Mind/ I guess

I really like having a hotkey bound to the terminal window, so I can pop open a terminal, check something, and return to what I was doing.

https://community.linuxmint.com/software/view/tilda

Times definitely have changed.

Also, Google was “Do no Evil”

At the time Google seemed awesome. Gmail was a game changer - a usable webapp that was better than maybe clients.

Firefox was good, but not great.

Firefox was the best of a bad bunch. It was so easy for devs to move to Chrome because the experience on every other browser was bad.

A good while back, Chrom(ium) was just flat-out faster

Performance was huge.

I was willing to put up with a little jank from my browser because I wanted a diverse browser ecosystem, but Chrome felt much, much now performant. After I switched to Chrome, browsing felt noticably better.

I think OP is mostly focusing on why people switched off of FF. Present behaviour isn’t super relevant to the conversation.