On paper mine could have. Instead he spent his last years dying, cutting out all his friends that echoed the sentiment of the men his own father flew to Germany to unalive, in disbelief. And he "wasn't political." Just common sense. Worked 7 days a week until the end when he went out under water from medical bills, and about to lose the house. No sarcasm, my father was a working class American hero.
Why the hell did you get so downvoted??? Yeah, that's not a bad point in any way but recall my use case - never bought anything per se, just ended up with 😁
Kid down early, chores done quickly, look at clock, how TF is it 10pm? Hobby time 20m fighting with codex until too lazy to reach from couch to keyboard, and focus on shitty tv for 15m. Wake up at 11pm. Go to bed. Wake up at 5am. Chores until 7am. Sit down to morning journal and take shower, right as kid is up. School, work, Lemmy on biobreak. And today was the healthy timeline.
I always end up with MacBooks after startups and love to have something I can just pick up and use whereas my PC is my command center. Most of my shit is web or local web services so just need a Mozilla terminal. Also, I can't fathom buying one out of pocket. I've also never had an iPhone, it doesn't make sense to my brain.
I just had the kind of thought you used to put on social media in the olden times, and thought, "as usual, my thoughts would be wasted on me and my human experience." But then I remembered this thread.
I don't recall anyone saying one thing or another, besides keep it on the DL, the implication of which I interpreted as, you're not supposed to do that.
And then I scroll to this a moment later https://lemmus.org/post/20014498