Dude my boys are 6 and 9 and they eat like I did when I was 16-19 and a lineman.

Idk where it goes.

$200/mo likely includes equipment repayment plan.

That’s how they get you to justify a $1200 phone every two years…by charging you $30/mo for it and a $20/mo promo credit as long as you stay a customer with them. If you switch you gotta pay off the full balance.

Imo that’s insane. I’ve always considered myself a technophile and I don’t replace any of my tech on that kind of a schedule, except for my phone…and that’s mostly out of wear and tear and not being economically repairable.

But I’m still out of that ERP game. Better to buy outright when there’s a good deal from the OEM with a OnePlus or a Pixel. Even better if you can find a $50 eBay phone that’s worth a $200-$300 trade-in credit.

How suburban in Texas?

Bc for real I live in Massachusetts (suburb, but closer to Providence than Boston)…and my mortgage is the same as yours, but that is including property tax and homeowners insurance.

There’s a fair bit of luck in that though…we bought in 2018, and refinanced in 2021…

Our house has increased in value, nearly double since then…so we couldn’t afford to move to a similar house in the region if we wanted to. We’re kinda stuck here now. Many of our neighbors in the same boat.

We could afford to take a significant downgrade in terms of neighborhood and home size. That would probably cost about the same as we have now.

Back to the Future 2.

Kids think whatever they’re exposed to.

Neither of my kids use their tablets anymore after having/getting access to a laptop. They were a little confused, at first, since the town uses touchscreen Chromebooks for K-1, but they got used to it, since none of my laptops have a touchscreen. Now they view touchscreens as being for babies. Like that kid in BTTF2 with the lightgun…“You mean you have to use your hands?”

My point is, you seem to think that the new way is better, with everything touchscreen. Just because it’s new doesn’t mean it’s better. People thought Teflon and cartridge razors were better too. Turns out they were just brainwashed.

Newer absolutely does not mean better.

This is why we are seeing a return to old household items. People are realizing that Teflon and cartridge razors and Tupperware aren’t really as great as we thought they were. We just grew up familiar with them because that’s what everyone used, so they must be better, right?

This is all because boomers and the “greatest generation” were really easy to market to when TVs came into homes. People weren’t ready for that level of advertisement.

I don’t think we’ll see a return to punch cards, but I don’t see keyboard/mouse ever going away.

Heheh that was my oldest a couple years ago. He’s 9 now but I let him use one of my laptops when he was like 7 to play Minecraft, and it eventually became “his” laptop.

He’s also using Tumbleweed.

He learned how to do all sorts of Minecraft console commands mostly “on his own” (as in, without my guidance, he saw some of the stuff streamers were doing and I explained what it was printed out a little cheat sheet for him and set him off on his own to mess with it. I haven’t taught him any Linux shell (yet), but he is getting pretty good at typing and keyboard shortcuts.

I don’t much care for the streamers. Especially a lot of the Minecraft streamers that pander to kids (cough Mikey and JJ). I don’t allow them in the house anymore. But I’m glad he got some inspiration out of it at least.

Care to name the comic? My kid likes going onto scratch and checking out other people’s stuff, and made a few little animations himself…but the whole thing is a bit overwhelming at first.

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CUZ THIS IS MY UNITED STATES OF WHATEVER.

I don’t need a video recording of my bathroom habits to tell me I need more fiber and more water. Or remind me that liquid bread satisfies neither.

Yeah it’s been a long road for me to be fully Linux on my personal systems. I think I started messing with Linux circa 1997 and didn’t switch over fully until I think Windows 7 went EoL.

That’s how they get you.

They build your trust with some truth (or at least something believable. Usually half-truths and lies-through-omission nowadays). Add in some fear. Then what you accept as truth changes.

This is why it’s so damn dangerous that Sinclair and Nexstar owns almost every goddamn local news broadcast in the country. They didn’t just buy the stations…they bought the trust that those stations had earned in the local market. That was the real asset.

The CEO of the IRS?

We sure they didn’t hire Vincent Adultman?

Alive and…well…

Is the drug guy really the one who should be talking about firearm safety?

Isn’t that like, a totally different agency? One that also handles some of the drugs that we pretend aren’t drugs? Man America is weird.

So…basically…Tik-Tok “blame it on Mexicans” challenge.

Tik-Tok “blame it on Mexicans” challenge.

I may have misunderstood the assignment, dude. cough.

I was thinking Rev. Lionel Preacherbot was about to get a promotion.