I read your first bullet point. Yes, your childhood was fucked. This is nowhere near the typical experience, even for folks with bad home lives.

gallop gallop gallop

“'ow about we add some vinegah—”

“ANDARE!”

Anyone collaborating with Dolly Parton these days is likely a decent person

The phone I use has constant battery charging protection. I checked before using it for that. But yeah, definitely check for that before using it that way, or remove the battery (if the phone will still run without it).

I use one as a camera monitor for my kids’ baby monitors.

A more general idea would be setting up a weather/forecast display.

I’m not certain that fish is licensed to perform bottom surgery

Ah, the old rituals. I remember summoning the powers of the dark gods Napster and Limewire as part of the rites.

Though I am old enough to remember the more ancient cassette magics. Those required precise mixing rather than burning, and were much more archaic, sometimes involving transcribing messages from the very ether.

Only if you combine them with shorts

Also in English, there’s Rosa, Marigold, and Iris (though Marigold might be a color rather than a flower?)

Haven’t used Windows for anything at home for years now. Even convinced my wife to switch her laptop to Mint when she got fed up. It’s been nice.

If I can’t see the floor through them, I’ll keep wearing them.

To be fair, using OneDrive is like using paper that can spontaneously combust at any moment.

Played an old LoTR game for the SNES that was so full of bugs, it actually held my interest longer than it should have because I was curious whether the game could even be completed.

I’ve been daily driving CachyOS for probably a year or two now? And it’s been pretty solid for just about everything.

It doesn’t feel like Arch as much to me. A gui package manager, easy-to-use optimized packages, and most things working easily out of the box make it feel more like Mint without all the extra default applications (which I prefer). There’s lots of room to tinker, but I don’t do much of that, and it runs great.

That’s usually all it takes.

What’s wrong with a good ol’ fashioned wafflestomp?

I use Notepad++ for coding daily. I’m not a fan of things like autocomplete, and the times I need to look up a definition, the search is fast enough to make up for a lack of indexing. And the regex implementation is great.

Distribute a codex to your friends by hand, then use it to talk on any platform

Something like this:

Like I said, just make sure the latch hardware has enough clearance from the wall and you should be able to fit a 34" door in there. If you needed a 36" door, you’d probably have to either tear up the existing walls, or otherwise have something that looks a lot more weird.