It was also around the time that Microsoft was perfecting their Embrace-Extend-Extinguish playbook. They’d been pushing me away ideologically, and I had an issue with the sound card drivers that was the last straw.

My PC runs Arch, my servers all run Debian, and my phone runs GrapheneOS. The Windows 2000 beta in '99 pissed me off so bad that I swore to never go back, and I’m a very stubborn little man.

That was one of the most powerful performances I’ve ever seen.

I think you misspelled Meet the Feebles.

I’ll have to give evil-mode a shot. Thank you!

Not necessarily migration, but just developing a familiarity with it. I’m assuming that after 27 years of vim, my brain is going to react like it’s witnessed the Color Out of Space.

Well, shit! Looks like it’s time to try EVi, then.

Native English speaker here. Aside from catching crap for regional accent differences, I didn’t have any noticeable, repeating problems until COVID. I can’t, for the life of me, properly pronounce comorbidity. Even when I really concentrate on it, it tends to come out as comorbibity. It really makes me sound stupid as hell.

I’m getting ready to make my late night flat white with Two Brothers Radiance Decaf. They’re a local roastery I’ve been checking out recently, and I really like them! Aside from the Radiance decaf, I’ve also tried their Brewhouse Dark, which was exquisite, and I have a bag of Morning Drive ready to try soon.

Nitrogen is the most ill-behaved ink I’ve ever used. I tossed it out when the bottle was still 75% full since I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.

• The Smearing: Sweet creeping zombie Jesus does it smear! I haven’t used it in three years, and it still hasn’t completely dried in any of the notebooks I used it in.
• Gets on Everything: I swear to Cthulhu, you get a free Nitrogen Gnome when you purchase this ink. The Gnome’s only job is to make every surface in your home turn blue when you add water to it. Months after I got rid of it, I was still finding places inside of drawers that hardly ever get opened, that when wiped out with water, turned the paper towel blue. It was unreal, how much I kept discovering, and in the weirdest places, too!

Probably? But then we’re entering into the land of Effort That Isn’t Fun*. The corpses of too many of my unfinished projects litter its plains.

*For me. I’m not disparaging jigsaws.

Have you looked into the Pilot Explorer/Lightive? It runs about $20, and has a really nice nib. The Pilot Metropolitan shares the same nib assembly, is a metal pen, but can run a little bit more expensive. If you’re willing to pick one up from Amazon/AliExpress/Etsy, the Hongdian 1851 is less than $20, metal, and a great writing experience. It even comes with a converter, so you’re not stuck with cartridges.

Adding a vote for Jetpens. I’ve bought some pretty expensive pens from them, and their customer service is stellar.

I’ve done a ton of business with both Atlas and Goldspot. Nothing but high praise for both of them!

Long story short, the Goulets helped start a chapter of a very right-wing, anti-LGBTQ+ church, so you can figure that 10% of everything you spend with them will end up funding hate.

You may have just spoken it into existence. It’s a great idea, but it’s been a bit since I looked into circuit boards with custom shapes.

I put down SparkleChicken Heavy Industries, Chief Engineer. We manufacture motorcycle parts and satellite guidance systems.

The SparkleChicken thing existed long before, but I used SCHI so many times that I designed a logo and bought the domain name. Every time I spin up a circuit board for a personal project, I get the logo silk screened on it. Been pretty fun over the years.

That was the one that got me hooked on SMBC.

It took a few years for Weird: The Al Yankovic Story to go from a fake trailer to the real deal. I have hope!