Levi Breederland @levisan@social.cleverlibre.org

I can't help but take it personally when someone complains about technology after I explain something to them. Surely, I hope, they aren't shooting the messenger but it sure can feel that way.

Chicago mix is so hit-or-miss

One of my favourite things is to assume someone is talking to their phone when they aren't and then also assume they're asking me something when they're asking their phone

Anyone have any suggestions for managed VPS hosting? Gotta see if the $100/mo of work money I'm spending is getting the best value.

Reading parlimentary debates on preventing kids from accessing things they shouldn't be and "The government will be able to block sites that fail to comply with eventual age verification regulations." sure is doing a lot of work

Joanna, fire
https://buttondown.com/levisan/archive/levis-link-list-221-225/

In which I try to sus out the difference between "settler" and "coloniser" since I've been labelled as both and see myself as neither

https://levisan.me/articles/settler-vs-coloniser.html

A re-introduction:

- I live in a small town in the middle of the Alberta prairie with my wife and kids.

- I work from home as the IT sysadmin for a private school board that serves 6000+ students throughout the province.

- I spend my spare time with strange liquids: photo chemicals, beer, and kombucha

- English is my first language, but I'm decent in Dutch thanks to my dad.

I'm all for a good synecdoche but calling sun screen "SPF" weirds me out. It's like calling a car your km/h

If you say "AI doesn't have a place in writing" I hope you're not using spell check.

I find it funny that so much of the "copulation out of wedlock is wrong" messaging talks about it being PREmarital and not EXTRAmarital

@freemo That's amazing! I've never been in that situation for long enough to get very efficient but I think I'd at least wear some clothing in the winter for the sake of not having to heat the house as much

@raintrees Ha!

@freemo I thought of the question while sitting on the toilet while the wife and kids were gone, and realising that I had habitually closed (but not locked) the door behind me.

I suppose your habit-training levels are very different!

You are going to sit on the toilet while no one else is home. Do you close the door?

@geordie I see a green bubble on your Apple Messages screenshot and now I wonder how Mr 12's texting setup is, well, set up.

Does he not have an iOS device? Or not have mobile data?

(Making notes for when my kids get to that stage)

I think part of why I feel the need to fill the silence with music/podcasts/audiobooks is because when I don't have something to pay attention to with my ears (like in the shower, when I had this realisation) my brain starts running around ideas, potentially getting distracting from what I'm actually doing

When you're talking about cameras and you want to specify that you don't mean digital cameras, what do you say?

Instead of arguing what "next Friday" means, how about we just stop saying it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m-389jMu0Y

So much jargon but "I'm IPAin and I'm yayin" is the best line