Pete Hahnloser

So, apologies to start, as I have no expertise to offer. That said, this reminds me of an experience, very early on, in Germany.

I was going through the exchange program’s intensive monthlong German-language course, and we went out to a weekly market with the task of writing about something we’d seen. And there was house siding.

Getting back to Gymnasium, I pulled out my trusty Langenscheidt and looked up “siding.”

The unfortunate thing was there are multiple uses of that word, and coming up with Haeusernebengleis led to the instructor losing their shit laughing in a way I’d not again see in that coursework. Germans have a sense of humour; they just have a very high threshold.

Nebengleis is, validly, a siding. Problem being, the railroad variety. I’d essentially invented “a house on the track next to the track,” which landed fully in the realm of the absurd.

Sorry I can’t help, but I hopefully provided a chuckle.

Here we get into a constant tension I’ve have with partners: I only eat if I’m hungry.

My second ex was of the same mindset, and I was 120 lb./54kg, with her being 89 lb./40kg. We ate one meal a day, despite her cooking for the kids before dinner, which was generally my responsibility.

Obesity is the result of marketing telling people they need to consume far more Joules than they burn in any given day. Actually listening to your body’s needs shifts the calculus significantly, yet we continue forcing more food than anyone realistically needs down the throats of kids so they know nothing else and become compliant consumers.

Consider the whole “part of a balanced breakfast” propaganda. I ate a lot of Lucky Charms as a kid. but it was never alongside toast, eggs and a glass of orange juice. I could launch into a tirade about how terrible pasteurized OJ tastes, but it’s not really necessary here.

Pay attention to your body, not multinational conglomerates whose sole purpose is to make you eat far more than you need.

I mean, if you’re still using Chrome, you likely don’t know about Manifest v3. Those who do have been on FF for quite some time.

Odd … stepcattle doesn’t sound at all like the sort of thing involving jackboots and train cars.

At this point, using NoScript is muscle memory. No reason to add friction to a process, even if it may not be the most efficient method in terms of memory usage.

I first gave NoScript a spin sometime in the mid-2010s. It was an adjustment, to say the least. But once you get used to temporarily allowing a new target domain as a matter of course, holy hell does the whole game come into specific relief.

The Washington Post, for example – which I was a paid subscriber to until it shit the bed – wanted JS from some 25 domains (many of which were Amazon ad related). I also have NoScript on Firefox on my Pixel.

Firefox, uBO and NoScript are the floor for passable internet hygiene to me.

It’s rarely worth fixing an inkjet. There’s a host of issues that could be in play, but if shit is out of register and paper isn’t feeding in an environment of reasonable humidity, this is going to be more expensive than just getting a new one. Sadly, this is the state of our economy.

What I will suggest, whether you go laser or inkjet, is Brother. They’ve not yet, to my knowledge, instituted chip limitations and other such lock-in crap. Granted, this was before the pandemic, but I was able to get five-packs (CMYKK) of third-party ink for $10, and toner for the laser good for 3,000 pages at 5% coverage for $30.