Hahaha.

I used to have a home office room, and I bought and installed a whiteboard on the wall, for noting things down, planning, to-do list etc.

For five years, it had a single scrap of paper blue-tacked to it, which read “1) Buy a whiteboard pen”.

I eventually solved it by moving house.

I think it only works if your brain is wired in a particular way.

Tons of open browser tabs? Long, impossible-to-complete to-do list? Unread emails? Unplayed Steam Games?

Good chance of it working :)

When I wanted to stop smoking, the idea of never smoking again would make me stressed and make me want to smoke.

The solution was I put “have a cigarette” on my to-do list, at the bottom.

So I never quit smoking, I’m definitely going to have a cigarette at some point, when I get round to it - just after I’ve re-tiled the bathroom, wrote a novel, made a computer game, taught the cat to play piano, finished a series of 100 paintings, wrote an album of songs etc…

… so it’s over ten years since I last had a cigarette, and there’s only a thousand or so things to do on my to-do list.

They exist. Go on a Steam discussions page for a popular game that doesn’t currently support Linux, and create a new post politely asking about the possibility of Linux support.

*A wild WINDOWS ZEALOT appears*

W*y ar* pe*ple s* fucking ups*t w*th a b*t of cunting c*nsorship? Sur*ly *t do*sn’t shitting m*tter *f som*one w*nts t* c*nsor s*me of the*r twatting w*rds?

Yorkshire:
T’ (Glottal stop sound)

You can only use Apple Branded iSocks™.

If you want to use normal socks you need an adapter.

There’s also ones where it uses OSM data for management games about the following:
Delivery driving - Transport Inc or Delivery Inc
Emergency services - 911 or 112 operator
Zombie defence - Infection-free Zone

Half of these are on sale on Steam at 80% off at the moment, so worth a look if you’re into that kind of thing.

Sorry I wasn’t clear about that - my replaced ones have never come off again - it’s the original ones on the shirt which tend to.

[Edit] Note that I am always wearing a shirt, and much of my work is manual/technical, so mine perhaps get knocked off a bit more frequently than others might.

Yeah, it totally makes sense for some uses.

That is significantly more complicated than how I was taught to sew in a button. Is this just for big metal buttons on jeans or something? It seems massively over the top for normal shirt buttons, which come off fairly regularly.

Roughly what I was taught (for a 4 hole button, in a “cross” shape):

1. Shove threaded needle through material into hole in button
2. Go across diagonally and go down through the opposite hole and through the material
3. Under the material, go across sideways a bit and come up in a different hole
4. Repeat 1-3 a bunch of times until it feels strong enough.
5. Tie off the thread and cut off the excess.

You say “best”, “highest performing” etc, but we asked a panel of immorally wealthy, elderly white male sex offenders who their ideal upper management employee was - and they unanimously suggested other immorally wealthy, elderly white male sex offenders, and suggested that employing anyone else is a DEI hire.

I used Photoshop 6.0 and Premiere 6.0. Not CS6, original 6.

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Bear in mind it can depend what country someone is from.

Traditionally, a Briton saying “I’m kind of okay at this” might mean they’re one of the best in the world (mustn’t blow one’s own trumpet).

A Briton who says “I’m great at this” (or anything beyond “pretty good”) is likely an arrogant charlatan.

In contrast, an American might say “I’m good at this” to mean “I am better than average”.

I’d imagine other countries have their own tendencies for under/overstatement.

In case anyone has forgotten, the specific character assassination was: “Elon Musk calls British diver in Thai cave rescue ‘pedo’ in baseless attack” (Guardian Website).

“I don’t live in the 1930s - 1940s Nazi Germany region, so I’m just a sparkling fascist”

We kind of go “brur”.

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Wait… dbzer0 is “divide by zero”?

I’ve been reading it as “dibzer nought”

“What’s that you say? Donald Trump has Aides?”