I’m afraid of drinking through a straw. I’m convinced (against all logic) that I’m going to inhale it and choke.

However, I recently started drinking through a straw again at my dentist’s recommendation, to protect my teeth from carbonation. I have a set of reusable metal ones. They don’t trigger my phobia at all. Maybe the texture makes all the difference.

Oh god, Net Send.

At one point it was my job to track down and upgrade old PCs that had been moved by users. To my delight, I found that Net Send was enabled on all the org’s devices. I had the bright idea to use it to pop up a message on the affected PCs asking them to call me and provide a location. I copied a script from an old website and modified it to work with a list of hostnames. It, uh, worked - but while I was testing my script I ran it without commenting out the line that sent the message to all devices on the subdomain.

I turned my phone off for the rest of the day.

No, but it wouldn’t bother me if people I know IRL see them and recognise me. It’s happened a couple of times before (on Reddit).

That’s great! What’s Cosmic Alpha 2?

Moral values. Some of the things I was taught were good in the 80s are now seen as evil and vice versa. I don’t think it’s the only time that’ll happen.

The only CLI editors I’ve used are VI and Nano. So my favourite CLI editor is Nano too.

I was thinking “Would I join you in a tiny building of scrap wood with walls made of chicken wire? Probably not.”

It means that for legal purposes Google is going to assume you stop for red lights.

I believe he also had to go through the hell that is residency, I didn’t believe nurses do.

Nursing education never ends. All the nurses I know are a bit loopy from the constant need to retrain and recertify.

Very useful article.

Fatdog is Debian by way of Ubuntu designed to run from a USB drive. There’s documentation on the website.

Maybe!

But not /c/nostupidanswers.

How bad are the toxins? How sick will they make you?

Because we’re not criminally insane.

But since we’re on this fascinating topic, here’s a Youtube video about other things people have tried to substitute for coffee during the American civil war. (Hint: not beans.)

If you pick a new user-friendly distro, nine times out of ten it’ll run like a dream out of the box.

If you want to change something minor like a desktop background, you might need to search through menus for the settings or ask for advice.

If you want to install new hardware, like swapping in a new video card, you’ll definitely need some assistance.

I’m mildly annoyed with yesterday-me for leaving so many dishes in the kitchen for me to wash. He knows how I feel about that.

I’m probably going to leave them for tomorrow-me. That guy’s a team player.

The thing all those patients have in common is that they are dead.

I was connecting network ports in a psychiatric ward hub room when a patient out in the hall started aggressively humping the door. I paused to watch, though to myself “this is still better than talking to doctors” and went back to what I was doing.

Agreed.