Not to mention that, for the longest time, that was the one they went to because science didn’t really have any kind of reasoning or theory for how it’d’ve come about and was considered, at the time, unknown; but, in our current present, now we do. Funny how science works.

I mean, – so long as we’re defining it in terms of trans Siberians – I don’t see why trans Siberian men couldn’t use it, also ;)

The Bone Chillers episode where their lunchlady gets replace by someone feeding them food with larvae that can be thrown up if they consume mustard also left a mark but only for a matter of days; I remember foregoing ketchup and getting mustard on my school lunch, the next day. I think I was in elementary school, at the time.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ObscureMedia/comments/mdsdbi/bone_chillers_1996_abc_saturday_morning_kids_show/, for those curious.

As much as I love it, that first Batman: TAS Clayface episode.

Gleefully tormenting a clearly desperate man with the thing he wanted most left me mortified.

*Chaucer laughs from the grave*

I mean, I’d argue that “Thank you” always implies acknowledging a social debt; if you don’t feel there was a social debt someone just assisted you with, I probably wouldn’t say, “Thank you.”

“Have a good day” would just as equally and politely close the interaction while not implying you were just assisted with a social debt.

That’s the strongest point in their favor.

So there’s Flare which works (GTK implementation) but it’s far from feature parity; but it definitely works pretty nicely, for what it is.

The device also has really good Android emulation; certain Google Play services still don’t quite work, even though it comes with MicroG preinstalled (e.g. the Integrity API so, unfortunately, all my banking app.s crash themselves), but I can’t imagine Signal uses any that’d cause it not to run.

I have it (the Android version) installed and it opens just fine but I haven’t had the chance to try transferring the account (and all messages) over, yet. So I’d expect it’d fully work but that’s all I can tell you, yet.

I can come back and let you know how it goes and how well it works – once I get there –, if you’d like.

FuriOS’s FLX1s works pretty well; it’s been my primary device for 3 months, now.

Are you using suspend, rather than hibernate? Proper hibernation shouldn’t be using battery, at all (as the entire machine is shut off).

I still follow the old twice-your-ram rule; 128GiB swap for meeeeeeee

The spec.s may not be enough for you but I’d be remiss to not point out that MNT Reform does exist, regarding ARM laptops. So, at the very least, there is something (which may be comforting).

Entirely unrelated to your point (with which I fully agree) but wouldn’t it make more sense to replace the first period in “et.c.” with just a space (if you’re not going to forego the period)? et isn’t short for anything so the period doesn’t quite make sense (and you wouldn’t be using any more letters than you already are).

No worries, either way (obviously); I was just thinking.

Not if you’re a Dave Matthews’ band bus driver.

https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/08/08/21-years-later-dave-matthews-bus-poop-incident-makes-chicagoans-laugh-and-groan/

I would massage all of his scalp wrinkles.

Don’t forget Wayfire; my windows are like my legs after trying Linux for the first time: wobbly.

Yeah? Would you say everything’s pretty fluid?

Thanks for this; I can’t say that I wasn’t just particularly exhausted last night but I put this on and conked out pretty quickly.

I used to be able to listen to just about any music, when falling asleep, but my anxiety’s reached a point that even playing the sound of waves is too much commotion and ramps up my adrenaline.

This was calm and unobtrusive enough that it really was just background noise and my brain didn’t keep getting its attention yanked away from drifting off.

—me encouraging our locksmith after we’ve accidentally triggered the prison alarm