Yeah, Logitech. I’m going to need to open up my G900 soon because the left mouse button is starting to do the same thing my G7 did back in the day. I hope it’s not more awkward due to the non-removable battery (or less removable, I guess), but the glide pads are larger on this one, I hope they adhere well after being lifted.

I just broke through the ones on my G7. Luckily they didn’t bend downwards from pulling the screws out.

Actually, this time I might even look into getting a better switch instead of fixing the one they put in it. If that’s even a thing, and if there even are more durable mouse button switches because it has been pressed a lot over the years.

It totally is a thing, both getting new switches on their own and the availability of a range of qualities: https://www.maketecheasier.com/replace-faulty-mouse-switches/

That thing was my favorite part of the movie. At least until I saw the rest of it.

The real reason for shitty microphone quality is using the shitty microphone that comes with your laptop. Get a decent wireless headset with a mute button on it and you can move around your house during meetings while still sounding way better than you would be sitting in front of it using the laptop mic.

I got to bar age after most cities in my area passed non-smoking bylaws for bars and restaurants, but lived for a bit in one city that didn’t yet have a ban. I smoked at the time. I remember thinking that while it was nice to be able to just have a smoke while chilling on a couch with friends and a drink, the air quality sucked overall and I was glad to see the ban eventually go through there, too.

A while later, I stopped smoking in my car. If I wanted a smoke, I’d park somewhere and do it outside. For places I lived, if it already had people smoking indoors, I’d just do that, but otherwise I’d smoke outside because the clean air was nicer (both while smoking outside and when I returned to the inside).

So even as a smoker, the convenience wasn’t worth it to me, unless the air quality was already bad.

Your second sentence is an example of why there isn’t solidarity. I have no solidarity with anyone who thought he needed to be taken down.

And it’s not even a solidarity on the right but more of a willingness to work with people they hate for mutual benefit, often with the intent to deal with them when that mutual benefit no longer requires the mutual part (eg the night of long knives).

It also wouldn’t surprise me if the loudest voices against Franken were agent provocateurs or worked up by them. Gotta always remember Russia and China (among others) want a highly divided West and the right wants a highly divided left.

Edit: that’s not to say the left doesn’t have divisions, even to the point where referring to it as a single coherent entity is probably a mistake, since there’s a lot of different ideas about how things should be, and sometimes those ideas even conflict with each other directly.

Here’s one I just realized: we’re closer to 2070 than we are to 1970.

In general, if someone is over 50, we’re closer to their 100th birthday than their birth year. 1974 is currently equidistant to 2074 and it goes up by one every year.

In 1990, we were equidistant from 1940 and 2040.

And the bit you mentioned might make you feel old but consider that anyone born before 1976 still spent more time in the 20th century than the 21st. Or more time in the 2nd millennium then the 3rd. The ones who can’t say what you said are the really old ones.

And both people in the running for president haven’t even spent a third of their lives in the current millennium.

It also ignores that everything has a cost and how much corporations like to pretend that “no study proving bad stuff means there’s no bad stuff” for brand new things that haven’t existed long enough for bad stuff to show up.

Really gives the impression of that feeling you get when a school project is due soon but you have no idea what to do and don’t particularly care to do it but know you have to do something if you don’t want to get a 0.

Because our brains interpret colours and shading relative to their surroundings. That specific blue is on the opposite side of the colour wheel from red, so that relative lack of blue can be interpreted by our brains as red.

Remember that white is all colours present, so white next to white will have more red than white next to blue.

You’d get a similar effect if you stare at a bright blue version of the can for a while and then look at a blank white page or close your eyes. The after image isn’t the same colour as the thing you were staring at, it’s the inverse of that colour.

It wouldn’t surprise me if the way it determines how busy places are would be considered a bigger privacy violation than these webcams (which only show people in their areas while Google somehow can report on how busy many arbitrary locations are vs their usual).

Gun goes on hip so that you don’t need to train on drawing while eating breakfast separately from training on drawing while doing anything else while sitting.

Ah that sounds like just a little minor neck break. Drink a glass of milk, snort a couple lines of coke (it’s also white so it must have lots of calcium and you gotta admit it’s a bit more fun than a second glass of milk), then walk it off. Listen to some heavy metal to help strengthen the neck so that it won’t be so weak next time he gets hit by a car.

Yeah, I think that the 80s were a stylistic low point in western history. Everything looked bad from the clothes, to hair styles, to electronics, to cars, to home decor (though that specific area bottomed out before the 80s and was on its way up).

And the reason for the questioning isn’t that they are worried about public funds but because they want all knowledge privately owned so they can sue competition instead of having to compete.

Some might put them in the fridge when they close or even have many extra so that they can be rotated in and out. But, given the frequent state of ice machines in restaurants, it wouldn’t surprise me if the way condiments are handled is less than ideal.

Though, on the other hand, if it’s not resulting in a bunch of cases of food poisoning, maybe it serves as immune system training that just gives you an ick feeling when you realize what’s been going on this whole time.

Many places use those individually sealed packets, too. Ketchup bottles usually say “refrigerate after opening”, so those things are probably fine, other than maybe plastic content.

If Trump gets back into office, it’s game over, unless the people are willing to fight a civil war to stop him. Though even that will probably be too little too late because of the power vacuum it will likely create on the world stage when WWIII already looks possible in the next decade.

It might already be too late because I agree that Biden pushing his weight around with these new lack of presidential limits would get messy. But the cat is out of the bag right now and it’s not going to go quietly back in.

Judges shouldn’t have agendas, just dockets.

Another fun fact: the pictured orientation of that smaller version of Africa is the only one that you can use to produce that picture.

Yeah, from my perspective, it failed long before that. The Democrats couldn’t achieve their true objective if they had allowed Bernie to be elected, which was to give the illusion of a better option while ensuring that the status quo isn’t affected where it relates to power and wealth.

Bernie was blocked for the same reason Biden isn’t trying to block Israel from destroying Palestine.

So you’re saying that that number keeps going up as I get closer and closer to the actual weekend when I install it as my daily driver?