But for the phones, I would have believed this was the early 80s.

Update:

Linux it refuses to pair my Bluetooth mouse. Windows had no problem.

OTOH I spent 2h updating stuff and removing bloatware that ASUS loaded into Windows.

I'm running Ubuntu dual boot with Windoze on a dedicated cheapo notebook and only in one location.

Either it'll frustrate me or it'll take over, but MS' monopoly with me is over. First it was their email, then their browser, then their office, now their O/S.

The vast majority of my use (Google Office, Tinkercad, YT and social media) runs in the browser and stores in the cloud. My computer may as well be a terminal.

I dumped Adobe when they went to Cr#p Cloud and I hear Affinity works in Linux with a bit of effort.

I just want an O/S and computer free from AI and data harvesting.

At work, we've gone so far as to (1) use out of date versions (2) disconnect the network from the Internet.

And I've just bought a laptop running Ubuntu to explore whether we switch to Linux.

"Sakar International" that's all I need to know to know I don't need it.

I and other mutual friends designed many on Tinkercad. Download any and print them cheaply at your local library.

Broken link. Retracted article? As a pilot who 3D prints, I'd like to read it.

Steeldive 1970S oxidised and brassed back. Oxidation had stalled, so I accelerated it with liver of sulphur.

My wife hates it.

I wish the companies that force AI integration understood many of us don't want it and it's sometimes a deal breaker.

I'm so sorry for you. Grieve in full. Get it out. There will be time to heal and celebrate her life later.

I try and sleep before dawn and wake before sunset.

Cats Eyes were invented by a relative on my mother's side. That's the extent of our family's inventiveneas.

There's only one active meshtastic node per approximately 2 million people in this city and AFAIK zero meshcore. If I bought 2 meshtastic dongles, the number of nodes would increase 50%. Plus, good luck with line of sight. I'm in the middle of this map.

Either I recognised your image post style or your camera, but that had to be you.

Back in the day... BC (before children) we used to do a lot of scuba diving.

People would buy a brand new Canon PowerShot camera and dive housing then forget to check, clean and grease the gasket, or improperly seal the housing and it would flood on the first dive.

Or worse, a Nikonos 😓!

I can't mention Jaeger-LeCoultre without the obligatory nod to the JLC Compass camera, which I'd much rather own than the watch, though I'd use it even less.

www.hodinkee.com/articles/jae...