There are so many other reasons to lose patience with some of my coworkers, tech illiteracy is nowhere near the top of the list. If anything, I like helping people with tech.

“It would be a good value if the value was good, but it isn’t.”

The logo in OPs image is definitely the best IMO. There’s an option in the iOS app to use this icon if you wish. Not sure if it’s an option in the web app.

In the US, a conductor is the one who checks tickets, makes announcements, and delegates tasks to the crew to help ensure things keep moving on time.

The locomotive engineer is the one who is “driving” the train. They run the engine and communicate with dispatch and traffic control to keep them informed where this particular train is fitting into the overall juggling act,. They also make every effort to keep things safe (watching for signals, obstructions, etc.).

I’m not 100% sure if the terminology is different outside of the Us.

(Source: My father is a 3rd generation locomotive engineer.)

FANTASTIC reference! This movie is so funny and awesome, and it seems to have completely disappeared from pop culture. I never understood why Conan looms so large in our collective memory, but this movie totally vanished.

I’m a Darn Tough sock devotee. Same deal as you. I didn’t want to spend the money for a long time, then I finally shelled out for 8 pairs. This was many years ago, and still wear them daily. I’ve since added a couple more pairs.

You might be talking about Never10, made by Steve Gibson over at GRC.com. It has since been updated and renamed InControl. It now also works to prevent unwanted Win11 upgrades, as well as other things. https://www.grc.com/incontrol.htm

I loved Sigur Ros when they first broke the scene around 1999. I thought it was so beautiful, and angelic, and weirdly transcendent. I wondered what beautiful poetry was being sung in this mystical Icelandic language I did not speak. Then, I learned that it’s not Icelandic. It’s not anything. It’s a made up language that means nothing. It shouldn’t really bother me, but I felt like I had been tricked, and haven’t been able to get past it.

Very nutritious, but they smell like death.

Where are you?

It’s about 7%. That is a lot.

The real question is, what is the overall population growth rate compared with before? I wonder how many people are leaving TX, or (more likely) deciding to not move to TX, compared with previous years.

Thanks for this tip. I hadn’t heard about this before, and it sounds like an interesting thing to add to my tool chest.

so if you browse youtube that can go via a country that does not allow ads.

Can you tell me more about this? I’ve never heard about that this is a thing, and it sounds like a good thing to known

I bet people love working with you…

There is now a well known podcast called “Blank Check with Griffin and David”, but when it first started back in 2015 it was “Griffin and David Present”. Back then, its original premise was for two epic level film nerds to do a deep (and humorous) dive into the episodes 1-3 and try to answer the question “what is this about?” (Spoiler alert: they are as confused as you are).

The show, like all podcasts, can be divisive. Some people (myself included) love Griffin’s spastic enthusiasm for pop culture, and David’s rooted but optimistic view of cinema, and they both have a deep well of knowledge on all things cinema. Those early episodes are gold, and really made me understand things about where Lucas’s head was at with many choices he made in eps 1-3. They are still terrible movies, but it’s really eye opening to see how Lucas, on his own, makes nothing but terrible choices, and is singularly obsessed with merchandising and taxes.

I should go back and re-listen to them. I hope I’m remembering them accurately, because I remember loving that run of episodes.

100% this! I use DietPi on all of my SBCs. Can’t recommend it enough.

I agree. Scalzi isn’t exactly attempting to be a modern-day Dostoevsky. He is a very self-aware author, and he writes fun, entertaining, and sometimes dumb (in the best way), stories.

Wheaton does a good job with the audiobook. Because of his minor celebrity, I feel that he gets more credit than other, equally talented, narrators, but there is no denying he’s pretty good at it.

Wait… there’s a color version?? Now I have to go book hunting!

As an answer to the request for a “book that plays with what it means to be a book”, this is 100% the best answer (that I’ve experienced). It’s as much art project as book, but also a fantastic story. Very challenging, and very rewarding.

As others have said, this MUST be read as a physical paper book. Not an e-book, and not an audiobook (if one even exists? It would be wild that someone OK’d an audiobook version of this).

That’s roughly where my fingertips land. Maybe 4” above the center of my knee. Though, I’ll admit that I’m build like a scrawny chimpanzee.

Thank you for providing a starting point! Jumping into a long-running show can be daunting. I’m going to check this one out.