I know of two belonging to two separate friends that would fetch.

Wagler was particularly good at it and would fetch just about everything, bring it right to you, and bite you for your troubles. This was 25 years ago and I haven’t kept in touch. I suspect Wagler is no longer with us.

Honey demands wadded up paper balls to fetch and adorably half-asses it getting either distracted and playing with one instead, or just wandering off and only remembering later that he was doing it.

I grew up with a load of cats and have never had one that was remotely interested.

Yeah, I probably don’t need 32gb either, but RAM was so cheap at the time, and it gave me the chance to put my old 16gb into my work PC which was down to 8 since a stick died on me.

Well, ‘casual’ in that I never did get into the nitty-gritty too much. I had to learn to sling a few terminal commands for this-and-that, but otherwise I almost never touch it. It browses the web, edits documents, prints pdfs, plays audio files, and does a little video editing in Blender just fine.

If there were Linux competitions, I’d definitely be out in the early rounds.

True. Failing that, you should at least care if you work too long.

The way I heard it was that no one has ever lied on their deathbed wishing they’d worked harder.

Long term casual? I’ve been using it in some form since the early 00s when I installed Ubuntu 6 on an aging laptop. Currently I’ve got an HP Stream 13 that only functions thanks to Lubuntu, and Mint is on my work PC. Unfortunately thanks to a music hobby and a bunch of shitty VST vendors who refuse to support Linux I run Windows at home.

I rarely open a terminal.

Also using 2019 hardware! I dread the day something dies, though. Luckily I upgraded to 32gb of RAM the last time it was super cheap. I’m hoping this machine has another ten years in it.

At least you have half the day to prepare. I’m in Korea. I wake up to the dumb shit daily. I’ve taken to avoiding news entirely…

Some time a long time ago, I decided to sink my teeth into a nice, long, schlocky sci-fi series. I picked up Kevin J. Anderson’s Saga of the Seven Sons. I made it maybe twenty pages in before I decided it really was not for me.

Some time not as long ago, I noticed I had some Kevin J. Anderson books I’d never read. I made it maybe ten pages in before I remembered it really was not for me.

Yes. Geunhye Park, the president from a few years back who was caught red handed embezzling millions and consulting a shaman on national policy barely got a slap on the wrist and was back rubbing shoulders with politicos like a year later. The cronyism goes deep here.

As long as they make him one of Char’s subordinates during the one-year-war, I see no problem with this.

Yeah, seems like these days it’s mostly good, then every once in a while you get some massive smog bank blowing in. Definitely an (anecdotal) improvement over even just a few years ago when it was almost constantly smoggy in Korea. Korea is also not entirely innocent of coal dependency itself.

I thought we were known for apathy since we were constantly told growing up that our generation was the first for whom things would be worse than our parents. I don’t have a sneering distrust of everything, just cynicism towards massive, systemic injustice in the world.

Hmm. Does that mean 2/10, 3/15, 5/25, and 6/30 are also viable?

In Korea, they refer to it as “magic” time. Take that as you will.

Remember your princiPLEs, he’s your princiPAL.

Vektor released three progressively more amazing albums of prog thrash before their label dropped them after domestic abuse allegations against the frontman.

Infiltration was an amazing Street Fighter pro who was sometimes completely unstoppable and really fun to watch. At least until he also faced domestic abuse allegations. He got banned from some competitions, his sponsor dropped him, and he nearly completely disappeared. The situation also anecdotally sounds like it’s not just a case of “oh he beat his wife” and possibly was in a mutually abusive relationship. But a judge convicted him based on “a wrist injury and bruises” and that was basically the end of his career.

I have to have Facebook messenger installed because it’s the only way I have to contact several out-of-date friends and family. Notifications enabled for the same reason. It will send a notification when you get a message. Ok.

If you happen to leave that notification there to say, maybe check that message later, it will send a second notification to remind you of the first notification.

Oh, it also makes loud annoying noises when you or someone else is typing in a chatroom.

Fuck Facebook messenger. With a rusty hammer. Sideways. In a vat of acid.

Needs more Linux femboys.

Bluey is a fantastic parenting manual. Seriously, it should be required viewing for anyone considering having a kid.