tomjuggler

That old huh? Amazing!

You are right, this was 30 years ago for me. I do remember the absolute feeling of helplessness, hearing someone else's positive experience is less than helpful. But I stand by my advice to communicate, I had no idea at the time just that one thing can turn it around

Professional magician here - when I do my show for kids I always get them to shout out "Boom!" and explain that it's like a special effect in the movies.

Whenever I say I'm going to teach my favourite magic word, some kid always chimes in with "Abracadabra". I think it's from Vaudeville - some magician made it up and everyone copied them ever since.

Not a single positive comment?

I used to be depressed, somehow pushed through. There is hope ppl.

Therapy is a real solution. Talk about it, don't bottle up your feelings.

Do something, anything is better than nothing. Do the dishes, make the bed!

Long ago now - ex but in the same friend group so we ended up going back to her place one night. It was all nice until we had an argument, she kicked me out but KEPT MY CAR KEYS.

I ended up walking many Kms (this was before everyone owned a cell phone) to a mutual friends house, eventually they managed to convince her to give the keys back. Apparently it was all my fault.

I run pi-hole in docker in the background of our libreelec (Kodi) home entertainment system and it works great. It's a MUST if you have kids, my son has more freedom to use the internet since I know he is mostly covered by extensive block lists. Using raspberry pi 400, we watch Netflix, play Nintendo games, watch YouTube and have a family hard drive for shared photos and files.

Smart TV is such bs.

At home we have a computer monitor connected to raspberry pi which can do literally every type of content including games while running pi-hole and device backups in the background, VPN included. Ain't nobody tracking my family..

I have a paranoid fear that some day I will be required to write an ampersand..

I'm voting for manjaro here too, it's been working great for me for years. But noobs should 100% go for mint

I can't speak about Codex - I have tried OpenCode, gemini-cli and claude code (with DeepSeek)

I will have to look at Codex also - only so many hours in a day, though! Aider-CE is still a bit buggy but the chief maintainer is someone who you can talk to, and somewhat of a genius imo. The new grep based search/replace is increadible in Agent mode. I think the main drawback is lack of documentation but we are working on it!

When windows XP went away I got 12 more years of updates on my old dell laptop - with Linux of course. The laptop died before 32 bit support did.

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