I get it. I had been messing with computers for years by the time I had a typing class. I was very fast with the method I came up with, and I tried home row. I ended up combining bastardized home row and my homebrew method and got even faster.

I’ll keep this in mind, but that onboard RJ45 is doing great.

Good work. I’m not cut out for parenting and I don’t want to bring kids into this world anyway. I love my niblings but I get to give them back.

It sounds like you’re doing great with yours. Good luck. 🤙

We assume they’re both having sex, so my wife got them five boxes of plan B before that becomes illegal. I also slipped condoms into his backpack just like I did with his older brother at that age. No pregnancies yet!

I did not. They are terrible with computers, especially the 15 year old boy. I debloated the computer I gave him less than a year ago. He downloaded so much malware and spyware. I got it all fixed up and he told me it wasn’t running games fast anymore since he switched bedrooms. I’m proud of him for setting it up again himself but he had the HDMI plugged into the onboard graphics instead of the GPU.

I acted like I didn’t see all the porn and deleted it from his history.

Yeah fuck cursive. Bury it in a dump and then set the dump on fire. My handwriting now is mostly regular, with cursive flourishes and joined letters here and there that I picked up. My handwriting is terrible for what that’s worth. I want to go fast like a keyboard and it ends up looking bad.

These kids are older, 21, 15, and 14. They’re such cool little shits. The younger two were stuck on Minecraft or specifically videos of adults playing Minecraft and screaming like fucking idiots. I’ll never understand the appeal.

The youngest, I taught to play Superhot with mouse and keyboard and she was a total natural at age 11. Jealous of that neuroplasticity for sure.

They used to beg to come stay with us on the weekend. I loved it, but many times we just didn’t have the energy after working all week, so we said no. Now they don’t want to hang out with us at all, which is sad. So it goes.

I use an in-house tool to connect to equipment over Ethernet for the company my company contracts for. Built in Ethernet is so good for it and getting very hard to find. When it was time for a new laptop my boss was able to find a decent one with built in Ethernet. I even offered to pay the difference in price.

I used two USB dongles in the past and it seems like they worked when they wanted to. It’s most likely a software issue because the in-house tool is garbage.

Has the keyboard and mouse versus controller argument finally died? I mean I use a controller for things like Elden Ring and keyboard and mouse for first person or tactics/strategy games.

We proved twenty years ago that keyboard and mouse was better for first person gaming and I was still hearing arguments that controllers were better five years ago.

That’s great. It seems like Gen Z didn’t learn typing. Maybe I’m over generalizing, but my three niblings can’t type for shit. The only things they know about computers are what I’ve taught them and then what they learned outside of school using the computers their mom and I got them.

Lowest common denominator interface is definitely touch screen, then maybe game controllers but I love those for some games.

Edit - TV remotes!

Ukraine already is using “Dragon” drones to dump fire from the sky into treelines. Again, I can’t imagine what’s going on with a US flamethrower drone.

Oh yeah shit could get real wild. My wife, previously annoyed at best with my guns, just bought a pistol that’s appropriate for her small hands. I’m going to get a good rifle. If you are scared of guns try a class. They don’t need to be scary once you understand how to be safe.

Get armed, just in case.

Not to minimize the horrors of this war, but the big players are learning so much. I can’t imagine what nightmare drones the DOD is working on.

It’s funny that they need all those dirty tricks when they already have the massive electoral college advantage.

And then all that pales in comparison to people not voting. Needs to be mandatory like Australia. Send in a blank ballot if you’re so against it but you will do it.

You cannot feel empathy for that man even? I feel so upset by the situation of the Russian soldiers who are overwhelmingly there against their will. Not as bad as I feel for the Ukrainians of course.

Currently over 10k North Koreans thrown in the mix, and I’ve heard he might buy another 90k. This world is fucked.

It’s cheaper to grow corn closer to the main roads.

I find that interesting yet hard to believe.

I tried to search for the info but Google is failing me and I’m too lazy to click a bunch of States on an interactive map.

It all should have been shades of yellow.

One of them certainly shouldn’t exist. The fact that that area is split into two states is only to have two more Republican Senators.