Agreed; Anna’s Archive is a wonderful place 🏴‍☠️

Bought a Kobo for option to load my own ebook files and the Clara both for cost and size (fits in my pants pocket). Super happy with the purchase.

This is my favorite way to use AI - as a mentor

Being able to quickly learn new coding languages, translate what I know from one to another and get advice on code structure etc has been super helpful; meanwhile I remain the one writing the actual code

Years back when Clash of Clans was running ads using player submitted footage they used my submission for an ad (the one where several giants get taken out by spring traps)

These days we mostly shop on Instacart which has been great for walking around to check what’s needed and update the cart accordingly before placing the order.

Ditto, easily one of my favorite movies of any genre

No, that’s not realistic; I would probably transition to video game development if I wanted to make a career out of game design. I’m happy to keep this a hobby.

I now have 2 more published games, several expansions to that first game and a few more ready to publish.

I designed a board game as a personal challenge and posted my notes online along the way. As the game got close to being finished a publisher messaged wanting to help finish and sell the game. Royalties were enough for a couple small family vacations. That experience really helped cement board gaming (and designing) as one of my core hobbies.

I pre-order some games, especially table top, through crowdfunding and do enjoy interacting with developers and their early player base during beta testing / early access especially if I’m able to contribute in some way.

I’ve tried a handful with Mastodon being my favorite and Lemmy a close second.

Never heard of Sharkey.

Yep, that’s exactly what is happening; I’ve seen the same and just kept reminding everyone not to click on ads. Took a while but they actually got it.

I run Pihole on physical Pi’s and once configured to my liking has been quite nice. I’ve even had family compliment that they miss the ad blocking when they leave the home :)

Ditto though ended up dropping Bluesky

Manual drill using a large dowel, flat bit of wood with a hole for the dowel and string to attach the ends to one end of the dowel with a drill bit in the other end.

Wind it up and then press down on the bar forcing the dowel to spin. Press hard enough and excess force winds it back up again so you can keep pumping it to drill.

We did cheat by using a modern drill bit but was fun demonstrating it at my elementary science fair.

Polarity

You’re essentially just trying to make less mistakes then your opponent but the semi-hovering magnets have an awesome table presence

One of the boys we fostered over the years: he was ~10 at the time and pretty sure was bipolar or schizophrenic or something as his eyes / face would change suddenly and attitude would become extremely defiant, destructive and sometimes physically violent. Thankfully he never hurt his baby sister we also had. We managed to capture one of these episodes over phone with our social worker and was able to move him to a therapeutic home where he was the only child and able to get the help he needed. Kiddo was a chill, happy boy normally but “evil” is pretty accurate to how we felt during those episodes.

Switch to All

Yep, same

+1 for TIDAL Hi-Fi

I switched to that from the web client today in order to enable their “Max” quality streams and enable keyboard media key support; has worked out great so far.