It’s why I live so much commercial stuff and things like bacnet.

Everything basically is just basic I/O with either analog or digital signal wires. Well documented. But it typically requires lots of actual wires running back to a controller.

I hate how consumer stuff is all different connections in so many different ways and they don’t care if they deprecate a feature or something. What works today can be fucked up because they have unilateral control to change how their shit works in “updates.”

Yup!

TUI is better than GUI

Tooltips that open immediately when a mouse hovers over it.

Tooltips should require being clicked. Eve Online annoys the shit out of me whenever I do a fresh install because tooltips load too fast they get in the way of actually doing things. Want to right click? Nahhhh your mouse is in the tooltip now.

Having ambiguous toggle labels should cause you to lose your job

Don’t have a window named something like “Disable Features” and then the options be a toggle for “Cookies” or “Carry weight”

Does turning the toggle ON turn the feature OFF? Or do I need to turn the toggle to OFF to turn the feature OFF? Even worse when some are already in the off position.

Gas is much, much cheaper. Like, insanely cheaper. Many homes were built long before it was normal to have 200 amp service.

It’s only in relatively recent years where heat pumps are becoming more common. And resistive heat uses a lot of electricity.

Gas has had decades and decades to be made safe. We have odorants so people can smell it, meters and sensors to monitor for abnormal usage and leaks, and it needs to be contained to cause an explosion.

Leaks outside suck, but aren’t really that dangerous because they can dissipate and be blown away by wind.

I drive a MR2 Spyder. I specifically don’t pull in all the way now so that I can see the ass end.

There are very few at ease with moral relativity.

Oh man. I would love if someone replaced Trump with Biden or Obama.

It would piss him off so much.

I might forgive the use of AI for this, even.

First time? Uhh. I think it was a car crash that rolled an SUV onto our driveway.

Since then, a couple wildfires, usually already reported, but I don’t want the bystander effect to cause the fire to spread. Several other car crashes, one I parked in front of a motorcycle that went down and another where a drunk man took down a street light and got his car stuck. One I directed others to call for a heart attack and another I was doing CPR and had someone else call for a cardiac arrest.

Never been scared to call, usually just what had to be done. I learned some time that it was better for a dozen people to call than for no one to, assuming someone else would call. It’s not like there is a downside to calling.

What can’t trump do?!

It’s so fucking infuriating they all treat him like he’s capable of doing anything.

Give me texture! I want to be able to grip my phone and not have it constantly slide off tables and couches because glass is so smooth.

Lol. K.

You want picture of our cast member name tags?

Life isn’t a straight line. We both had to grow and experience some parts of life before we were both in the place in our lives where we were ready for each other.

Weirdly enough. That was the secret I had for getting laid. I had a reputation for being a bit of a slut. I never had any expectation whenever I went on a date or started flirting. Mind you, I never tried to get laid. I just wanted to hang out with people I enjoyed.

But because I never expected sex, or even anything at all. It put the women I dated at ease. They knew they could be themselves and it was up to them if anything happened. They felt safe and so they often would initiate something. I had a few that ended up disappointed because nothing happened when we went out, because I just didn’t feel it.

Some of the best dates I ever had were the ones where before I met them they told me that nothing was gonna happen or they didn’t like me in that way. We still went out and we still had a great time. I loved those dates, because even though I didn’t expect anything anyway, I didn’t have that tension and we could just have a good time. I loved being friends with women who had boyfriends for the same reason. I never saw them as available so neither they or their boyfriends ever were worried about us hanging out.

I worked at Disneyland. I met and dated plenty, it’s not so hard to learn to be social when you spend every day meeting thousands of people. Mostly dated fellow cast members.

I ended up meeting the women I would grow to love during that time. We went on one date and ended up just being friends. We both misunderstood each other’s signals. She ended up deployed and we fell out of touch. Nearly 10 years later, she had a daughter and was going through a divorce. We randomly started chatting again, and she wanted to have some fun. I invited her to a few things, and while I thought I was putting out signals, she didn’t notice. And she was putting out signals that I missed. So we just ended up as friends and I even wingmanned for her.

Eventually, drunk at a game night we discussed our lone date and our missed signals. We both realized that we liked each other. But we both didn’t want anything serious. She was just getting out of her marriage and I was planning a move halfway across the country. So we started fooling around, hooking up.

Well, best laid plans and all that. We ended up starting to really care for each other. She introduced me to her daughter. And over a trip where I was checking out the house I was about to buy and she was in Paris for her mother’s honeymoon we were texting none stop. When we finally met again, I confessed my love for her. And we’ve been a thing ever since.

Noise canceling earbuds or some ear plugs and it can’t be too bad for the money.

I’ve a Subaru that is a true Frankenstein of a car.

It’s a 2003 wrx, with a 2007 sti steering rack, a 2019 short block, suspension from various Outbacks. Almost nothing is original. But I have all those old parts, if I ever switch it back.

I’ve known pets that had lost their owners and just stopped eating. They got super depressed, lost the will to go on, and let themselves slip away.

I had to put my dog down a few years ago. He was in late stages of kidney failure. He probably wasn’t going to live more than a few more days anyway. I spent the entire day with him, gave him everything he could want.

It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. Even thinking about him years later still brings me to major tears.

Depends. You can also deposit so much to the DMV instead for them to hold in place of insurance. In California it’s $75k.