Boooooo to this post

Of course don’t let me dissuade you. My wife would much prefer a robo mower with “normal” lawn over a no-lawn solution

Torn. This is clearly a cool idea, and it would save a lot of work (which I would immediately offset with all the work putting it together) But then it will be that much easier to keep a traditional lawn going, which I’d love to get away from over the long term.

One downside that slack shares with discord is it’s not searchable/visible to the greater web

Also guess I should say my solution is to run a virtual Windows machine on my Ubuntu laptop

Maybe I’m missing something or don’t know how to use wine, but more than 50% of the time if I try to run an old windows program it doesn’t work.

Reminds me of this tweet from Merman_Melville: “Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it’s probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day” The experience itself is probably harmful and changes the person.

It’s big for sales people too - I research who is the right person to contact at an organization, and also to find out what they’ve been up to lately that might be useful in a sales pitch.

Well you know, “quantity has a quality all its own”

Kids these days are too soft with their avocado toast and their graphical user interfaces