Happened to a friend if mine.

Once it went to court his lawyer made the cop look like a tool.

Still cost him a bunch, just not an actual DUI.

Also had cops arrest a friend who was a passenger in a car, and tried to give him a DUI, too. The judge blasted that cop pretty bad.

Excel tables.

No Linux/OSS app can do this (and will likely never). Open Office devs have outright declared they won’t.

Or the automated process that export/import data via excel.

Let’s see you rebuild all those things, without man hours or errors. Costly errors.

Whenever someone gets on a “just switch” campaign (whether it’s something like Linux or Metric), I know they’ve never had to work on a migration project and seen the challenges, difficulties, and risk.

I use Linux for servers, but I’ll be damned if I’m gonna spend time converting my workstation - there’s zero value in it for me when I have decades of tools and process. The value proposition just isn’t there.

Don’t go taking down a fence until you fully understand what it’s for.

I was about to post the same. It was a funny episode.

I think the nerd/tinker space today is stuff like self-hosting, local storage, return from cloud.

Apps that don’t phone home to someone else’s server, keeping your contacts, calendar, shopping list, etc on your own stuff.

We could, if someone cared to put in the effort to make that happen.

Be that “someone” .

Come on baby…

Light. My. Fire.

I swore by my toaster over for over 20 years. Loved it so much is buy the same one from places like Goodwill just to have a spare.

Then Ninja came along with their convection ovens that actually work… Game over.

Wait, they have a combo device doing both convection and pressure cooker? What black magic is this??

Haha, fine, I’ll give you that one

Because bonnet means “any of various hoods, covers, or protective devices”.

The etymology of which:

bonnet(n.) early 15c., “kind of cap or bonnet worn by men and women,” from Old French bonet, short for chapel de bonet, a cap made from bonet “kind of cloth used as a headdress” (12c., Modern French bonnet), from Medieval Latin bonitum, bonetum “material for hats,” which is perhaps a shortening of Late Latin abonnis “a kind of cap” (7c.), which is perhaps from a Germanic source. (If that is correct, a chapel de bonet would be etymologically a “cap made of cap”).

So bonnet as a cover for the forward part of a vehicle originated with bonnet as a cover for one’s head.

I’ve never heard of a fruck

And trunk originates with the trunk that was literally strapped to the back of a carriage to transport your stuff.

“bread”

Just shows the map creators biases, more than anything.

I’d not be happy in NH (no offense, beautiful to visit, skiied there a LOT, just not where I want to live).

The weights the map creator puts on things makes this a map of their values.

Maryland being 11? Yea, fuck that. Being trapped between 2 shit holes of DC and Baltimore, the insane traffic, etc (I know of what I speak, spent a LOT of time there). Lots of folks love that kind of business/chaos, I do not.

ND at 14? I don’t think the map creator has ever been to the Dakotas - it takes a special person to live where winters are that rough. ND has the lowest temps of the lower 48. Long stretches of zero and below. Only Alaska gets colder.

Jersey at 13…hahahahahahahahahaha

Thing is this is by the metrics of the map creator.

Go to Appalachia and get to know those people - their metrics will be different than the map’s creator.

Paradigm has a lot of influence, and being open to understanding someone else’s will tell us a lot more than cobbled together maps like this.

Having lived and worked all over, I would be very, very unhappy to live in or near Chicago (or NY or Philly). That’s part of my metrics.

Crazy in your (or my) estimation.

I may not agree with people, but understanding their paradigm can be insightful.

So you must use a 12 hour clock for this, not a 24 hour? (/s)

Having worked in a restaurant kitchen boiling many eggs, there must be more to this.

This is the method we used, and every egg in the same boil would be different, so clearly this method has little to do with it.

You need to tell us more about this fake plastic egg!!

HP has been up and down.

Years ago they were great, then they were shit, then they were good again for a short while.

I wouldn’t touch 'em today, but I’m a laptop snob and only go for the pro lines in Dell or Lenovo anymore. I have friends who spec systems for companies, and those have the least issues and are more maintainable than others.

Take apart some laptops, and you’ll come to appreciate the pro lines from Dell and Lenovo. I inherited an HP laptop, it was challenging to open without breaking stuff, and little is replaceable - the opposite of my Dell and Lenovos.

486sx…man,brinfing back some memories