They are slowly pulling out of the Android there too. They’ve deprecated the Amazon shopping app on the fire tablets. Now, selecting that app will open the stock browser to the Amazon homepage. Likewise, there used to be a Amazon Photos app that had decent storage and would sync photos across devices. Now, if you want to look at local photos, you use the gallery app. If you want to look at cloud photos, you use the website.

I don’t know if this is part of their switchover to Vega OS or if it’s just cost saving.

I have yet to find a low calorie sweetener that doesn’t bother my digestive system. My wife, who lives on diet Pepsi, doesn’t believe me.

I miss Liftoff

Roddenberry wrote lyrics for the TOS theme song so he could claim half of the song’s royalties and less money would be paid to the composer Alexander Courage.

When I started with Linux, I started with vim because the tutorials I was working off used vi and vim. Once I started with vim and learned the commands, I wasn’t going to switch to something else… there’s a joke somewhere in there about not knowing how to exit… but I’m not making it.

If I was going to write documentation now for a Linux newbie, I’d probably pick nano to start with.

Yeah. This is one of the breakaway groups from when the Episcopal Church started ordaining women in the 1970s. Fun fact: the “Anglican Catholic Church” was one of the names considered for the Episcopal Church when it was founded.

It’s interesting to see the contrast between his remarks and that of Bishop Budde.

At least it’s following the “every other” rule for Star Trek Movies. Final Frontier was awful. Undiscovered County was great. Generations has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 47 while First Contact is at 93. See my table below. Now that we’ve gotten a bad one out of the way, I’d watch four to six movies with the SNW Crew.

I don’t hate this.

People made a big deal about Michelle Obama missing Jimmy Carter’s funeral. Why wasn’t President Elon there? Hmmm. Why isn’t that being covered?

This was the last one I was waiting for!

His name was Luigi Mangione.

Yes, but that is a person at rest. They generate more heat if they are active. Useful if you’re planning the heating needs for movie theater as compared to an exercise studio.

What’s the name of the Benny Hill theme song?

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He’s the guy who killed Brain Tomphson.

I work for a church. Internally, the staff refer to the December 23rd service as “Christmas Adam” because Adam came before Eve. They think it’s hilarious… and I put up with it.

Back in 2020, those of us who had been using the community document server were greeted with a notification stating that mobile editing was no longer supported and that we’d have to buy their commercial product.

Some folks quickly figured out a patch. Others, like myself, left with a bad taste in our mouths.

In the end, I can only speak for myself, but I chose LibreOffice and The Document Foundation for philosophical reasons.

https://github.com/nextcloud/documentserver_community/issues/94

May I recommend Summer of Blood: The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 by Dan Jones?

Your best bet is to copy the link out of your email and paste it into your web browser of choice. That way you have the web page open outside of your Gmail. It is asinine but not specific to Gmail. Other email apps do it as well. I’m sorry for your frustrations. I hope you’re able to successful unclutter your inbox.

Once you get into bikes you realize that it becomes a sort of Ship of Theseus. So many things have become standardized you can (and will) upgrade over time and it won’t be the same bike you started with.

Rather than recommend a specific brand, go and talk to your closest bike shop (a real shop, not a chain, department store, or sporting goods store). They will tell you what is easy to source, what has recently given them headaches, and they may even help adjust the bike for your proportions. Most are also happy just to talk about bikes even if you’re not buying that day.

Side comment: Fixies, or fixed gear bikes, are less complicated and thus have fewer points if failure. Not advocating for or against… just and objective statement.