I learned to touch-type QWERTY in late 90s chat rooms. By 2006, I was bragging about my 100 WPM speed in my online dating profile. I met one girl who challenged me to a typing contest. She won, then I won, and then we called it a draw. We've been married for 13 years and had our third child last month.
When I was learning to touch type, I found it helpful to practice in my head even when I was away from the keyboard. Like whatever I'm thinking about, I'm picturing a keyboard in my head and where each letter of each word is. It slows my thoughts down a little, but that's not always a bad thing.
I live in an extremely humid area, and I can tell immediately when the engine stops, because it starts bringing in the heavy, outside air. I turn off auto stop every single time. I'd prefer not to have it in my car.
On the other hand, obviously fuck this bullshit ad. The content of the ad is gross, the use of stereotypes is gross, the fact that it's generative AI is gross, and it's especially gross that all this is coming from the government. I'm disgusted by this whole thing, and it's only 8AM, which is actually a little late in the day to start feeling disgusted by the Trump regime now that I think about it.
I remember bringing a Polaroid picture of my 10" television screen into my English class just to prove to my best friend that the Hylian loach existed.
As of a month or two ago, any time I see a post that's so thoroughly unfunny that it brings down the average quality of all Lemmy posts, I don't even need to check the community. It's always this one. Why is that? What happened here? It didn't used to be like this.
Technically I'm in a city. It's just suburban and car-centric. If they wanted to make it more walkable and add public transport, I'd love that, as long as my kids still have their space to ride bikes, and my wife still has her car.
Even then it's fairly walkable. I walk my daughter to school when the weather and time allow for it. I could walk to a grocery store; I just couldn't transport my groceries home.
If you ditched your car, could you afford to leave the suburbs for a great urban neighborhood?
Could I afford it? Yes. Would I do it? No.
I live on a suburban cul-de-sac where my kids can go outside and ride bikes with the neighbors. Also my wife is handicapped, so a car is kind of essential for her. When we lived in an apartment the long walk from the garage to our door was difficult for her.
Other than those things, I'd much prefer to live in a walkable city. Maybe when I retire, if we can find the right place.
What are you guys searching for? I find that Google's AI search results are the only improvement that Google search has made in at least 20 years. Because other than that it's been a slow and steady decline, even when I take the time to make a really specific query.
I also find this is the one circumstance where AI has actually made something better, possibly because Google search had just gotten that bad.
It feels a little forced to me. It circles back on itself too much, keeping the characters close-knit in a way that doesn't feel believable.
It has its moments though, and the cast is stacked. Jessica Williams, Ted McGinley, Brett Goldstein, Wendie Malick, and obviously Harrison Ford are all worth showing up for. I like Jason Segel, and he's probably the cast member I like the least.
I like the preantepenultimate one, and I'm not just saying that to use the word.