Precisely my concern. Front and center in my mind, in fact, because my current job stems directly from the dreams of my secondary school days. Might just be stuck between work-to-live and live-to-work modes when I ought to settle for a work-to-live approach.

Along this vein, a used e-reader with a large screen has cut down my printing needs by about half. Don’t have to burn out my retinas on a backlit screen, but don’t need to print out and carry stacks of paper either.

HP Laserjets are usually decent. Ironically, I’ve had a better time with consumer lasers since the enterprise variants take ages to boot.

Quite lucky, I’d say. Could also come down to some print heads being designed better than others. I rigged my old inkjet up to a refilling tank system and I’d have to run a few cleaning cycles in a row if I didn’t print for a couple of weeks. This was in a room with around 50 to 70% humidity.

I never got the hang of touchscreen keyboards. My most common typo is b, v, or n instead of a space when I don’t move my thumb down enough.

Also, media apps that try to cram in a million gestures on the screen. On VLC, NewPipe, mpv, the swipe to adjust volume and brightness gestures are my worst offenders. Thankfully they can be disabled.

I want an option to temporarily disable the touchscreen in general so I’m not forced to hold my devices by their amazingly thin bezels when watching a video or showing off an image/QR code. Maybe implementable as an option in the power button long-press menu.

Haven’t given too much thought to be fair. Taking video on the phone is much more obvious, while someone with camera glasses could make the excuse “I’m not recording!” and you’d be hard-pressed to prove it. For surveillance cameras, you could know where they are and evade, throw a rock, or drape something over them, whereas you’d have to go up and snatch the glasses off the wearer.

I also wouldn’t be against it if it were used legitimately to help with a disability, or for specific tasks like a HUD with vitals, etc when doing surgery. But for general use, I’m not comfortable.

No, even if it were open source, I don’t want to normalize an instrument with such potential for privacy violations.

Anything but inkjets, unless you are keen on printing photos. The amount of time I’ve saved on maintenance since I switched to a laser printer is astounding. Currently using an old Brother MFP I bought for $30 at the local thrift store, then $30 for a two-pack of third-party toner on eBay.

As for wireless printing, I set up an old thin client as a discrete print server.

A matter of social acceptability in general. Some societies, moreso before Western norms became widespread, don’t view the breasts in a sexual way and a woman going topless would be completely unremarkable.

Other than the breasts, some societies see the legs as very sexual, so they always cover the legs in public.

I think it would be more likely to change in a female-dominant society, but they could just as well not change it for no obvious reason. I’m sure there’s some nuance I’m glossing over, but even though it’s legal for me to go out in my underwear as a man in a male-dominated society, I wouldn’t do so voluntarily, regardless of the temperature.

Here’s a couple:

https://archive.is/CBIzS

https://archive.is/TR1W4

Yep, price is up, quality is down, fast food seems more of an expensive novelty now than whatever it was supposed to be. Stopped going unless I was on a road trip or with friends. Frozen food with an air fryer (got the fryer secondhand for the cost of a McD meal) satisfies the craving, but for much less money.

By its limited scope of just initializing the chip, it seems a lot more benign than Intel ME, which would be a jucier target than the FSP. But no independent audit has been completed on it to my knowledge. Purism got started with an attempt to reverse-engineer it (legitimately without the leaked code!), but Intel told them to take it down, which is a bit troubling.

For most instances, it would be a moderation (and potentially legal) nightmare.

Spot on, I finally went around and found way too many degrading thermoplastics and rubberized surfaces causing this. The umbrella handle, office chair armrest padding, a pen grip, zipper grips, plasti-dipped tool handles (which then mixes with the smell of WD-40 and skin oil on metal). Ugh. At least it makes me mindful of how nasty plastics can get and how much crud sticks to unwashed hands.

Goodness gracious, it gives me an aneurysm every time I set up a new computer with the en_US locale or have to fill out forms with that date format.

Hardly ever, but sometimes I find grammatical, syntactical, etc. elements of the other languages subtly bleeding through in my writing and speech. e.g. habitually writing “1.”, “2.”, and “3.” instead of “1st”, “2nd”, “3rd”, even for an English piece.

Maybe it stems from the way I acquired my languages. Code-switching tends to throw off my thought process, especially if I am the one doing it. I’ll have to finish a thought (or an entire chain of thoughts) in one language, and only then will I have an opportunity to switch the language.

A certain James Gilpin apparently did make it from his grandmother’s urine. And set up a tasting session for it.

Still, when im forced to use windows I see how bad its become, so im sticking with linux!

That’s the right attitude. A lot of the comfort of Windows comes down to habit and mere exposure. Every Windows user who dives beyond the surface also spends a lot of time learning, but with the added burden of having to sift through every forum post suggesting sFc /ScAnNoW. And if you keep the same hardware for a few years, the Linux experience ages like a fine wine as drivers improve and features get some subtle polish.

Sometimes I wonder if my health takes a toll each time I help someone set up Windows. I can literally feel my heart rate increase as I go through the privacy-related settings.

Learned to make use of this the hard way when transferring a directory over a FAT32 USB drive messed up the permissions.

Nice! Glad to hear it worked out for you