I owe much of my career to trying to set up Linux From Scratch two decades ago. While it’s a much better experience installing Linux nowadays, there’s a lot to be said for the experience spending your weekend debugging a system will give you.

I’d swap out Roosevelt for Nixon - Teddy’s interventionism set us on a bad path, but at least we got national parks and antitrust laws out of it. Nixon was just pure shit show start to finish.

Normal rekeying is pretty easy, if you’re careful - push out the core (the “follower” will hold your spring pins in place), dump out the old key pins, swap to the new key, and put in the new key pins, replace the core. Even when I’ve completely screwed it up (pushed the follower too far so the springs came out, mixed all the key pins together so I had to work out which was which, and more) it’s not been more than a 10-minute job.

They moved Ctrl-Alt-Backspace behind a config iirc - too easy to hit by accident.

Having just finished up 6 episodes on G. Gordon Liddy, knowing nothing about him beforehand, I second the recommendation of Behind the Bastards.

A Strobe Tuner is fantastic if you play music. I’ve been using the open source one by Adam Foster for years, but heard the A4Labs version is good too.

If they hadn’t tried to claim the history as their own I don’t think it would have been nearly as controversial. Calling themselves “The Dons” and referencing 1889 as the founding date was just insulting.

There’s plenty of it in the UK too.

I think the point I realised how out of step I am with most brexiters was when someone argued with me that now we’re out of the EU “they can take all their bloody decimalised currency with them!”

I was completely flabbergasted that someone would still be mad about an objectively better system that’s been the norm for over 50 years at this point.

That was the argument I heard a lot of from neolibs leading up to the referendum - “y’know, Norway and Switzerland aren’t in the EU and they’re doing fine”.

I do wonder if Cameron had stuck it out if that’s what we would have aimed for, rather than leaving it up to the “Brexit means Brexit” crew.

Mostly hate and misery, with a good dash of racism.

For a more serious answer, “tory” is the nickname for a member of the Conservative party, the UK’s major centre-right party. Much like in the US, they’ve been shifting further right in the past few decades and focusing more on “culture war” BS.

Iirc, the rough delineation is if you remember the challenger disaster = gen x, 9/11 = millennial, covid = gen z, after that = gen alpha.

Ilya Naishuller has some fun stuff - check out his video for Leningrad - Kolshik if you haven’t already.

Fantastic Planet’s score was also sampled heavily on Quasimoto’s “The Unseen”.

are you trying to say “exempted”?

Thanks to the chicken tax, they’ll have to keep some manufacturing in the USA. Maybe this will be what finally kills it.

“I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.”

Calcifer is the fire demon from Howl’s Moving Castle - I’d guess it’s a reference to that?

“on god” is just zoomer slang.

They do make colour laser printers - but in the past 5 years, I’ve needed to print in colour maybe 3 times, and I just took it to the copy shop where it’d be better quality than I can do at home anyway.

Almost all the printing I do is either stuff to sign like contracts or boarding passes / tickets, and those are moving digital more and more.