I’m partial to OVVO, I tend to be pretty hard on frames (-8 prescription, I can’t not wear glasses), but the two pairs I’ve had have been nigh indestructible- deceptively sturdy especially given how thin and light they are. (Bonus points for not being part of the eyeglass cartel too)

Good news! If you have a regular local account, this should just work for you. If you open the user tab in the settings menu and pick your account, you should have an option to configure the fingerprint reader (framework docs).

This doesn’t quite work for me, because my account doesn’t show up in the users list to configure (I think it’s because domain accounts tend to have higher UID’s than “normal”, so they get filtered out, but I’m less sure what part of KDE controls that to dig into it).

This. A scrum master’s job should be first and foremost making sure that the dev team has what it needs to get real actual work done. Ideally, the scrum master should be face tanking status/ update meeting, coordinating with outside entities, and ensuring that as few distractions make it to the team as possible.

ASL can count as high as you need to, it gets kind of tedious after about a 999, because of all the place markers that need to be added in (like manual counting, or spelling out a number on a check), but one can sign up to 999 with a single hand. for numbers up to 99, it’s more or less using the chart above. For everything after that you mark the hundreds place with the letter C and then go on the rest of the number (476, would be signed 4 C 76). Beyond that, it’s just a matter of adding on the place value signs for “THOUSAND”, “MILLION”, etc. (which are two handed signs) so, 456,789 would be signed as 4 C THOUSAND 56 7 C 89.

The exception to this would be strings of numbers, like phone or room numbers, where you sign them much like how they’d be spoken. So when directing someone to room 235, you’d just sign 2 35 (the concept of hundreds isn’t really important here, because in most cases, the leading 2 just means the room is on the second floor).

Edit: ASL is very visual so here’s a link (with the caveat that there’s variations in signs between signers/ regions, so online stuff may be different than what folks in your area are using)

Doesn’t help that they’re almost all owned by the same company…

Nice! Kurzgesagt teaches history instead of theoretical physics (and existential dread) was absolutely not on my bingo card for the day, but I will absolutely take it! Kind of digging the water color vibe compared to their usual vector animation.

Speaking of Zheng Yi Sao, the band Bastille devoted a track to her on their Ampersand album last year and I’d highly recommend it (mostly because I’d highly recommend Bastille in general, and couldn’t pass up an opportunity to plug them).

That sounds like a perfectly capable school machine (especially for $250). According to the service manual for that model, it looks like the storage can be upgraded (assuming that you can get your hands on an SSD). There’s no mention of replacing the RAM, so I’d almost bet on that being soldered, but realistically 16gb should be plenty for the use cases you mentioned.

Correction: one does not walk a block in Texas, for there are no sidewalks. One drives a block, like god intended! That’s why we were born with wheels instead of legs.

(I’ve only ever been to San Antonio for a work thing and I am very bitter about the fact that attempting to walk the half-block between my hotel and the nearest grocery store for some snacks was an absolutely miserable experience due to poorly maintained sidewalks that disappeared and reappeared at random. To say nothing to the fact that my hotel was less than a mile from where I needed to go, but couldn’t walk to, due to the mega-highway with no pedestrian crossing between the two.)

Can I get in on that action?

Yeah! I put an order in for it back when it was announced and I think I saw that they’re not far from shipping out (I’m excited!)

I’m also a Kickstarter backer for Olan’s new project Godspeed whenever that gets off the ground. I’m just still bitter and very willing to hold a corporate grudge (it’d take purging the CEO and board before I’d even consider giving them money again).

From the deep Final Space shaped hole in my heart, fuck WB/ Discovery.

I’m of the opinion that claiming media for tax breaks should immediately forfeit IP/ copyright protections and require it to be made available to the public.

So… A Chromebook?

Yeah, watch faces can be switched at any time (I can’t imagine it’s changed, be you used to be able to switch faces from the watch itself as long as it was a face that you’d already installed). The landscape when Pebbel originally launched was vastly different and I’m not sure how vibrant the community still is, but it’s crazy that it’s endured this long. Plus now that new watches are being made, it can only grow from here, I’m super excited to be able to rock a pebble again (I still have my Time Steel and a sealed Time, but I think the batteries are well and truly shot (and one of the stand-out features of Pebble has always been their battery life)).

Hopefully it’s a quick four months for you (and everyone else waiting)!

I’m in my late 20’s and while I have a good job and enough cash on hand that I could make a down payment and move out, I’m not sure that I want to… As a US-ian The economy is in pretty rough shape and I’m not sure I want to be tied up in a mortgage when the bubbles start popping. Plus, if I were to uproot myself and move away from my family and friends, I’d almost rather full send it and emigrate to somewhere walkable, where the wrong medical diagnosis isn’t a financial death sentence.

Hi and welcome to the club!

If we’re talking bare minimums to get started, all you should need to install is the Pebble app, from there you can connect to the watch, and you should be good to go (I think there’s some kneecapping if you’re using an iOS device, but I can’t personally speak to that).

The time 2 line of watches aren’t really out yet (and I don’t have mine yet), so take this with a grain of salt, but one of the best parts of the original Pebbles was that they were watches first and foremost. Out of the box, I could always tell time, get pop ups for push notifications on my phone, calendar reminders, and control my music, which covers the vast majority of my use case. While the app store does have extra utilities and such for the watch, the only one I really remember using was called Find My Pebble- it lit up the screen and buzzed the watch so that I could find it if I took it off (and lost sight of it).

Everything after that is customization, one of the other nice parts about Pebbel was that they had a pretty vibrant community of folks making watch faces, so there was usually something for everyone. Some of my favorites for daily use:

• Timestyle
• Poke Trainer
• R2D2’s face

I also remember using TH3 if I was at a career fair and wandered something a bit less whimsical for the setting.

I’m partial to isthereanydeal.com for a more platform agnostic view of historical lows (it’s also super handy to see if a game gets frequently bundled or is perpetually on sale).

Carol of the Bells absolutely slaps! I’ll very much agree that it’s one of the few Christmas songs I genuinely enjoy.

Ender’s 3 price point is tricky, because the initial machine is so cheap there isn’t a whole lot else in the same sub-$200 bracket that’s particularly great. Realistically, if you can step up to $300 (which you’d probably spend in upgrades for the ender anyway), you’ve got the Bambu A1 and Elegoo Centauri Carbon. I’m not personally a fan of Bambu, but they are very set and forget folks that don’t mind being in an ecosystem seem to love them. Centauri is on the newer side, but from everything I’ve seen, it seems to be a very strong contender for best budget printer (also worth noting that there’s rumblings of a version 2 coming out early year, so you might be able to snag a clearance sale or some shiny new features).

I’m taking this as an excuse to share Ian’s shoelace site (complete with step by step instructions on how that knot works and how to tie it) because it’s one of those corners of the Internet that’s handy to know about. Plus, I feel like most people don’t realize that how a shoe is laced can dramatically change the fit and comfort of said shoe.

As someone stuck in a car-centric suburban-hellscape, sign me the fuck up!