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We call that business logic layer “services” at work too, for lack of a better word, but I’ll be watching over this thread for better ideas…

Honestly… I love Linux with all my heart. I can firsthand say that the Linux Desktop is 20 thousand times better than when I got into it around the first Ubuntu betas, but it’s still quite a mess in certain areas. It often boils down to the hardware and software you expect to run on it (or viable alternatives, if they exist) being compatible or not.

I hate Razer’s software with a passion, but the ability to set and assign keyboard macros to my Deathadder’s side buttons that then “just work” across all my computers is invaluable to me.

To give you an example of what I use it for… The Deathadder V2 has two thumb buttons and two small ones under the scroll wheel. The thumb buttons switch between virtual desktops (Previous/Next) using Win+Ctrl+(Left/Right). The top scroll button opens Task View to show me all open windows (Win+Tab). Bottom switches between my two sensitivity presets. For Linux I just bind these same shortcuts to do equivalent actions in window manager/desktop environment. I haven’t used a Mac since I bought this mouse, but with my old MacBook and mouse, I just used Karabiner Elements to rebind stuff around. It gives me a very predictable workflow on all major OSes.

I’m confused… How do you think ANC works, exactly?

Organized is a really big word to describe what essentially amounts to hiding shit out of my eyesight in some sort of organization I’ll forget the sense of in a matter of days, until I need it again and have to open all the bins to find everything again anyway. But like some other people here, I use hardware organizers for the small stuff like tools and brushes, and larger bins for things like my soldering gear, helping hands, etc.

Ugh, freaking Star Wars fans

We annoy me so much

I mean, it’s Midichlorian guy, but also Star Wars guy in the first place lol

Not OP, but EWI is Electronic Wind Instrument. It’s basically a fancy MIDI controller/synthesizer in a clarinet-like format.

Fizz often have promos where you accumulate rewards such as monthly rebates after certain milestones. It’s currently costing me $28/mo (+tx) for 20GB after some small rebate. And they do data carry over for a couple of months, so I basically always have 40+GB in bank. I tend to buy my phones upfront when I get a good deal, and keep them until they stop doing the job, or when I don’t or want to change it for whatever reason, I resell/hand down/donate them. Phone plans just keep getting cheaper for me, which is a nice change of pace from most expenses in my life these days… But you have to stop the loop of financing with the Big 3 and getting two year plans, and either financing yourself or ideally saving and paying cash, or some mix of both…

I was raised in a relatively high wealth family. Not personal jet rich, but still rich enough that we were going on vacation to fancy places a lot, dad had pretty cars, a big house, we went on ski trips, and played golf, etc. My wife was raised by a single mother with a more or less absentee father, working where she could to raise her two girls.

I already knew I was lucky and privileged, my parents kept telling my siblings and I, but it never really registered to me just how much. The skill I learned a lot about is empathy, I think.

Interestingly enough, Ozempic was first and foremost a diabetes drug.

I never really managed to do these things outside really controlled environments, like laying down in bed as I fall asleep. My inner voice/chatter just doesn’t stop going off unless I’m too tired for it apparently lol. It’s easier if I’m medicated obviously, but then I feel like I need it a lot less often.