I was way over thinking this haha.

I read the disqus comments and still am not sure I get what is going on here. I thought maybe it had something to do with that nursery rhyme, but that doesn’t seem to work. The one explanation in the comments seems to require more intimate knowledge of another comic, which I do not 🤷‍♂️

Anyway, it seems if these two could combine houses, they would each have a better overall quality of shoe!

You’re a little off on our ages, but your point still stands 🙂 What is behind that statement is me seeing him talk about these things for so long. He was messing with OS/2 and some Linux stuff before Windows came out, but completely quit after about 1993. He would, however, talk about it.

He was the first of us to get a smartphone (Apple) and did a lot of tinkering with it then, but quit. I personally have been using Linux OSes for 20 years and even gave an old desktop of mine to fiddle with 10 years ago, which he loved!

He wants to do this stuff but has trouble starting his own projects. He has spent time with my phone, my computers, etc. If I lived closer this would be a great way to spend time together since we don’t have a whole lot in common.

The reality is he is the nerdy kid who learned programming on punch cards and switched to that field in the 60s as soon as he learned what a computer was. He has always wanted to do “gadgety” things. He does have some dispensable income. I have enjoyed hearing him talk about this new nettop and the shenanigans he gets into with it! So much better than discussing the weather.

Wow, I thought I drank a lot of tea, but it’s rarely more than a liter. This is insanity!

Would this not just be suicide? Linguistically, this would be “you,” but “you” would be “me.” It’s even weirder than talking about oneself in third person… IMO.

That could be. I tried the user agent switcheroo but then got stuck in a Cloudfare loop. While it worked for me in Firefox, I haven’t really fiddled much with the settings in it so it probably didn’t offer much protection and I didn’t do a private window. I think the best answer, for me, is to keep things like this partitioned off from some main browsing session. Not my area of expertise!

My elderly, former programmer father is one. Too bad it took him 30 years after first trying but he is up and running now for about three months 😁️ Now to get him off the Apple phone and into an alt android OS…

It blocked me with Librewolf, but works in Firefox. Seems weird.

Once I was able to pull it up, pretty neat interface! Lot’s of pictures of local places I don’t usually see. I will have some fun with this!

It’s true that annular may not be as exciting as total, but still pretty neat. If either one ever happens close enough for you to see I hope you can make it! Totally worth it.

Total and annular are two different things, save your eyes 🙂

Wow, seeing this collage the first thing that came to mind was a Jamiroquai video, and the only video from this picture referenced is this new-to-me group. So fitting. Thanks!

Thank you! I work on rangelands, so having good info makes a big difference when I speak with these folks. I can’t use the sheep examples because we all know it may not be relevant.

I’ll get to reading.

This is very awesome! I imagine most of us who floated over a couple years ago have figured out ways of making this happen, but what a huge obstacle for newcomers. Huge news!!!

I don’t know about now, but “back in the day” I went to work with my Dad for one of these and vomited on his cubicle neighbor’s keyboard. Good times.

sheep are the easiest to graze under common panels

These are the studies I have read, but cattle are what exist right outside of town. We have a lot of sheep, too, but not where the panels would go. I would like to find a study about cattle, if you have one to share, that would be great!

Form a local power coop with your neighbors or village, and you might be able to make sure that grocer never loses power again

That is essentially what our power coop has proposed. I think they are talking about solar only, but it hasn’t been popular with the ranchers 🙁️ It was just this year, so I think it will gain traction over time. This climate is complicated with regard to the shade from panels but the studies about solar panels in ranch land are good and I think it will happen, we just need more town folks to show up to the meetings. The grocer incident will be, I think, a game changer. The ranchers depend on that store also.

I love this source, but this article doesn’t get into some of the issues folks have with sleep. The problematic relationship some of us have with sleep. I do like to sleep, but it doesn’t always work for me. The writer discusses bedtime rituals, which myself (and probably others) need to improve upon, but not problematic sleep (like dreams, at least for me). I want the break from thinking about “things” but have trouble with that. And don’t want to have a weird dream about drinking wine with dog poop in it while visiting with the pope.

Instead of the enhance meme, change it to destabilize.

This is so cool. Hercules were always my favorite insect even though I now live in a place they do not. If this is true to form, it looks like a cross between the annual forms in and the periodical forms I have experienced in different places in the eastern US, or between the periodical eastern and annual western US. None were gold, though 🙂️

As a stop gap to what @wjs018@piefed.wjs018.xyz mentioned, are you able to use the :hide read posts" option? I haven’t used that, I am not sure how it works, but I think at least then you wouldn’t see it. I guess you wouldn’t see other posts to follow up on then.