I have very suddenly started hearing a strange quirk of grammar that needs to die in a fire. I'm going to write it on an index card and burn the index card.
I swear I haven't heard this before the 2020s: "My kitchen needs cleaned." Not "My kitchen needs to be cleaned", not "my kitchen needs cleaning."
Explain to someone ESL that "My kitchen needs cleaned" has two verbs in it, one is present tense, one is past tense, combined they imply a future action. AAAH!
Imagine you're a painter. Painting watercolor landscapes is a hobby of yours. Shenanigans ensue and a partially completed painting ends up kicked through, it's ruined. That painting wasn't important, you weren't going to sell it, nothing depended on it, and you can start again.
Losing progress in a video game is often like that.
Funnily enough, I was given typing tutor games as a kid, didn't really spend much time with them, never really developed proficiency because as a 10 year old I didn't have a reason to type in my life and Magic School Bus was more fun.
Fast forward a few years and MSN messenger was a major tool of teen social interaction. You could use it to hit on girls. Knowing what I knew from that typing tutor game, I started IMing friends. I can now touch type at 100WPM.
Edit to elaborate: I do rest my hands on the home row but I have several "bad" habits. I almost entirely use left shift, including for QAZ, I shift my whole hand over one, hold Shift with my little finger and type the letter with my ring finger. Depending on the word I'm typing, I strike the Y key with either index finger. Growing up, I had a Compaq Presario that came with a split space bar, the left half of the space bar was a duplicate backspace key, so to this day I still strike Space with only my right thumb.
I do find it funny how much people hate our society's fundamental rights and want to limit them as much as possible. AIN'T NO FUCKIN FREE SPEECH HERE. WE HATE THAT SHIT.
Raspberry Pis have CEC support. I've used it with OSMC (formerly either LibreElec or RaspBMC, one of those? It's Debian Kodi). It was much better without. So, if you turned the TV off with the TV's power button, the Pi would turn the TV back on.
The Pi has a 3.5mm audio jack. I have a set of desktop PC speakers that are hell and gone better than anything built into a television in the last 20 years. Not only is it not straightforward to get it to control the Pi's audio output level with the TV's remote via CEC, OSMC absolutely did not want to do this. Not only would that setting get revered to HDMI audio out, it would disable the analog out option, and you'd have to SSH in and change a config file to re-enable that option in the first place. That would happen either during updates or even just power cycles. I swear the phraseology of the line you'd have to put in that config file would change; the same line I'd put in there would still be in there and not working.
The thing with open source software is, it's always going to have the UX of a sinus infection, especially since the manufacturers of hardware gimp their devices to not work well outside of the walled garden.
My town has a bulletin board posted adjacent to the sidewalk near the post office. It's labeled "The Town Cryer" and fliers for local events, businesses etc. get posted there.
That is what I see the Twitter/microblog format as useful for. It's for stand up comics and musical acts to post "come see us LIVE at the Somewhere Dome in Citytown This Saturday a 8/7c." Or for ISPs to post "Service interruption in the Carolinas, repairs underway, expect service to resume at 9 pm."
Other than that and it's just All Old Men Yell At Cloud.
The peak was during the period you could say "If you search on Google for ___ you get ___." Back when it was predictable. When they started personalizing results was the moment they sliced society's brake lines.
I remember...I had a Windows 8.1 machine, I needed to SSH into a Raspberry Pi. No Powershell, no native SSH client, the easiest way to get one was to install PuTTY. So I googled "putty". All lowercase, search engines sometimes get fucky when you start doing caps and punctuation, etc. I got an entire page of results for and about the TTY client, and nothing about drywall spackle or non-newtonian children's toys. Because I often search for stuff like that, it made a bet and went all in.
The horrifying part of that is, that innocuous example makes it sound great. I didn't have to overcome the "why did you name it that?" problem and refine the search by adding "tty client" or something like that. By getting to know me it took me to exactly what I wanted to find. When trying to find utility software, that's okay. That's not all people search the web for.
Now it's hooked up to the "You're right to call me out on that" machine, we're sliding down the mountainside upside down on fire.
So they're 2/3 of the way to being nudists like the Sphynx. I hope that thin layer of down keeps them warm enough, I always feel bad for Sphynxes having to wear sweaters and such.
I have very suddenly started hearing a strange quirk of grammar that needs to die in a fire. I'm going to write it on an index card and burn the index card.
I swear I haven't heard this before the 2020s: "My kitchen needs cleaned." Not "My kitchen needs to be cleaned", not "my kitchen needs cleaning."
Explain to someone ESL that "My kitchen needs cleaned" has two verbs in it, one is present tense, one is past tense, combined they imply a future action. AAAH!