RF isn't magic. It is awfully finicky though, so don't touch the BNC cable

They may filter incoming air, but I doubt it

They may filter incoming air, but I doubt it

People with little mechanical sympathy definitely have less luck with equipment

Having worked in tech support for a system that I knew very well, I often saw problems vanish when users attempted to demonstrate them with me present

People would say my tech aura made it work

Really though people just take more care when an expert is present, and so avoid whatever error their earlier carelessness caused

I wonder if people who experience the opposite encourage less care among those around them

In the stone age and during an ice age

Maybe just their livers. Liver is an excellent source of iron (and everything else), unfortunately it's easy to overdose on

It was fine until "the adpocalypse", when advertisers pulled their ads because they were being shown with offensive videos.

While YouTube has been trying to fix the problem the quality of the ads has reduced. So many advertisers now only go through sponsorship, which doesn't give any share to YouTube.

I originally learned qwerty and touch typed at 60WPM, during a really boring job before smartphones and before we had internet to the desktop at work and I entertained myself learning to type again, but on dvorak

So after 3 months I was back to 60WPM

I really like that dvorak has all the vowels on the left of the home row, and t and h are on the right of the home row right where finger tapping cadence works for "th"

So my speed hasn't increased, but my fingers don't need to move as much for common words. I don't think it's worth it if you play games on the computer, many games don't map keyboard controls well. Eg Minecraft moves everything to whatever key is in the same place as the qwerty key; 7 days to die doesn't change anything, so you need to choose keys for everything, or if you're happy with the defaults, just change the ones that conflict when you fix "wasd" to ",aoe"

The door lock failing should just disable the self cleaning mode

I don't think cheesecake is difficult

Mix ingredients - how long? Until they are mixed. If a thing needs stirring for a length of time the recipe will tell you

Beef doesn't go golden brown when you sear it

Golden brown is the colour of cooked wheat flour products - things toast to golden, they don't sear to golden

Framework still don't have open firmware

For me if Christmas eve is a Monday we usually get the whole Monday off, if it's later in the week we only get a half day. We get from Christmas eve 12 noon to January 1 off normally

ISP around me had policies like "we can provide Usenet except for the binaries trees"

Cubes are the worst of both worlds. You have the noise of open plan, but the lack of visibility of other people like offices

The common refrain of how we're doomed by climate change and the fact we can't fix it, so nothing matters anyway has their fingerprints all over it

It's funny that they went out of fashion at the same time people started getting fat

High rise trousers belt above the hips, giving no chance of showing a plumber's crack, holding them up solidly

RIFTS is set in the future, 300 years after an apocalypse brought magic back to earth

It's fantasy + sci fi