James R. Strickland (he/him)

Yeah, this is a secure cat.

Also, you can turn off their ai crap, at least for now.

They sell me a product, then support it. As opposed to selling me a subscription and pimping me to advertisers. Apple’s support periods are short amd their hardware expensive, but you do get something for your money.

Ethical alternatives? Probably some species of Linux. I use pop-os with its new wayland-based desktop, still in beta. Practical alternatives? Gotta be macos, which is what I use for real work. Liquid glass sucks, but I haven’t seen it break anything.

Does this mean you’re now maintaining that library?

If you can use AI to do your job, AI will do your job.

I haven’t seen any of that personally, but it’s certainly possible I’m missing it. I would point out that different versions of Word have also had this problem, particularly between the Mac and Windows versions. Even Microsoft’s interoperability is questionable.

I use that all the time in textmaker, interoperating with Word users, including novel length documents. They can read and write comments and track changes on my documents and I can read and write theirs. If that functionality is all that’s holding you back, you have more options than you think.

Roboslurry. Good word. I like it. 😀 Did you coin it?

Agree. Renting software went out with the demise of minicomputers. I /buy/ software.

The story giveth and the appendix taketh away?

I am mighty hunter of bread.

Totally friend her. 😀

Love it. 😀

Isn’t this what a classical education is?

May you continue to “annoy” us for a long time. 😀

You go, Wil. 😀

Uhh…is she related to you? Her face seems vaguely similar.

That Mishell. She was just so… kind.

Well. That’s a happy turn of events. 😀

A swimming pool filling in the dark

How much water can a garden hose spew out in 24 hours? Not quite a pool full, as it turns out.

Maybe it will just be the igniter? Or the vent fan? Hoping.

Totes!

The paw is my master. I have been chosen! OooooOoooo.

Yeah, an online friend of mine who speaks Romanian as a native said the same thing. Duolingo, by contrast, was kind of like the “my hovercraft is full of eels” sketch from Monty Python. At least in Romanian.

And they say authors don’t get any exercise…

Restarted Pimsleur Romanian. Main character in my current series is from there.

So…Coal has always been trouble? Is that what happened to his ear?

That’s a fun one.

Kitty loves Mommy. Kitty will not let anything bad happen to Mommy. Now please scratch kitty’s ears.