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That's a great point, we've been around the block so we're less receptive to enshittification bullshit

That movie had no business being as good as it was.

In a similar vein, rain now prompts thoughts of "oh fuck is there a leak anywhere?" Instead of enjoyment, haha....

Wife and I have both finished the book and absolutely loved it. Thanks again for the recommendation. Here's to books 2 and 3!

When I'm senile? Ice cream sandwiches. I'd have forgotten I'm lactose intolerant, God be with the poor soul taking care of me.

I'm so glad that you posted this. I had a similar experience. My personal goal is to ask some things only twice, and then suck it up and move on.

The girl I dated in high school broke up with me when college started. A few years later, we were talking again, and we were in the friendship fog. I asked her out again, she said no. That also hurt like hell, but I told myself I've asked twice. Time to move on.

I actually recently found a journal entry from that night - "It feels like I am king of the friend zone with her, but holy shit it feels so good to have that cleared up, and now I know I have a solid friend who I don't have to worry about dating potential".

After that she was the first female friend who I didn't constantly have a thought of "...but what if?", and that was incredible.

Over 10 years later, she's like a sister to me - she was my best ma'am at my wedding, and I was a bridesman at hers. (my wife likes to poke fun at the imbalance here, but we had a small wedding haha)

The website suggests it does. I just remember it served me well when I needed it.

I haven't used this in many years so I can't vouch for the current state, but I've used synergy to share the same mouse and keyboard across multiple computers. I think this should enable your 4 monitor dream - 2 externals and two laptops.

You'll also likely run into a situation where a single laptop can't drive 4 monitors - keep that in mind.

EDIT: I don't know why you're targeting 3 laptops in the future, but I would heavily suggest looking at framework laptops. They're upgradeable, modular laptops where you can buy new motherboards to upgrade. Once you do upgrade, you can actually use the old Mobo as a desktop machine.

We were using Skype... Dark days.

I have not and I've now purchased the book - thanks for the recommendation!

I've only read Ted Chiang's exhalation, but one of the stories was the biggest thinker I've seen, and another was an emotional gut punch (in a good way)

The ratio of lasting impact to content length of his short stories is insane. He has no business having such compelling works being readable in a lunch break.

Another vote for Pratchett! I'm an economics fan, and making money happened to be my introduction, but there are far more common onramps.

My personal suggestion for getting a feel of Pratchett's writing these days is monstrous regiment - technically in the discworld series, but it's very standalone, so you get the flavor of the writing with little of the need for additional context.