“It doesn’t exist if it isn’t written down”. Someone said that to me long ago, and it really changed my perspective.

I recently came across the PARA concept - everything we deal with falls into one of these 4 categories: Projects, Area of Responsibility, Resource, Archive.

I restructured my OneNote notebooks to use it, and it’s been a game changer. Now when an idea comes my way, I can immediately categorize it so I know what to do with it (even if just on my head). I added a final R to my notebooks - Reference, because I save a lot of info that I need access to.

It surprised me that at any one time I have about 30 ongoing personal projects. Seeing them laid out as tabs in my notebook makes them more apparent, instead of just floating around in the back of my head. I’ve even Archived a few after seeing them languish, and realizing they were fleeting ideas I really don’t need or have time for.

Great idea!

I’d consider breaking it down a little more - first go just make the list of ideas. Then a second time for prioritizing or developing pros/cons.

$400 for a drip machine?

Must be a Mac user.

Well, dammit, now I gotta go try NixOS. Gee, thanks for sending me down the rabbit hole, like I have time for yet another one!

Hell, mine made crema on the first try. I probably over-pressed the coffee though.

I really like the mocha pot, but I’m a cappucino fan - if only there were a simple way to steam milk. I even have a Bellman, but it takes forever to build up pressure.

I can’t imagine how you burn coffee with a mocha pot.

Like, you’d have to go out of your way and intentionally try to burn coffee with it.

Changes by shitty apps wanting to start with windows and register for context menus.

I’ve had windows machines run fine for 10 years, and some having trouble at 6 months. The difference being the problematic machines I’ve made tons of changes, installed tons of risky apps.

I’ve also run registry cleaners as a test, and it’s made a world of difference.

In short: crappy apps make windows run poorly.

My cheap ($100) espresso machine takes less time than a Mr. Coffee/drip machine.

Fear of change? Hahahahaha

No, I just know what’s involved, with the unpredictable “gotcha” a year from now.

Not to mention the knowns. Holy hell switching from Windows to Linux is very problematic for typical end users. Yes, the UI is that different, even with “friendly” distros.

You say your grandma made the switch? OK, so someone who uses a browser for everything and doesn’t actually use office.

Let’s see Libre office open an excel spreadsheet with tables.

Or edit a word doc and send it back and have it not be screwed up.

Not migrating is practicing risk mitigation. Hell, I can’t change a single setting on work systems without validating that change in the lab first. And you want people to switch entire operating systems. For what?

So stop this fear projection nonsense.

(And I work with Linux every day on multiple distros).

Lol, of all the people to choose, Bev is the one that would like it the most!

You could’ve made a joke about her giving the pill to the captain, since she had a thing for him, and all but got down and dirty in his “ready room”.

There’s a current meme about her banging a ghost, haha.

That looks like the fan for the convection part of the oven.

Good luck. You can clean it, but it’ll look just like that again in no time. That’s not really dirty for an oven, in my mind.

Know why commercial ovens look like they do? There’s only so much cleaning you can do in it’s down time.

I wouldn’t leave puddles of stuff in an oven, just that they’re going to get coated/caked/baked on, especially since these consumer ovens use a cheap sheet metal inside, which is very hard to clean or keep clean. It’s not stainless or an enamel, which are very hard, non-porous surfaces, which makes them easier to clean.

Most likely the owners manual says to clean it just run it on max for a period of time. That will carbonize whatever is caked on, making it easier to scrape off.

Did what go wrong?

Never used TikTok (which is what I assume “TT” means). Don’t have a YouTube account, use it very little anyway.

So what’s the question again?

I think this is a bug part of it.

Average person doesn’t care about the details if their convenience is satisfied. It’s why so many continue to use Facebook even after the Cambridge Analytica scandal (which is still in the courts), and exposure of their tracking pixels.

Convenience. That’s enough for most people. It’s why we traded our personal data for free email accounts with Google, etc.

Like pretty much anything, it’s because most people continue to pay for it despite the shittiness.

Same reason concert tickets cost so much.

Preach!

Though this does make crows my spirit animal

Well before.

And “refuse to change their ways” - are you going to underwrite the project to implement a transition and hold all the liability for the risks?

Its not like changing systems is just a click of a button, this is an extensive project, that you better get right or you’re dealing with records going the wrong way, potentially having serious life and safety implications.

Plus, you have to maintain this legacy fax system because not everyone else has migrated to something new. So for the remainder of your career, it still doesn’t go away, and you’ll have to continue to pay for its maintenance.

Companies have systems they’ve built up over years, that works. They’ll move forward as it makes fiscal sense.

“embedded in many workflows”

Key statement right there.

And once people see what that really means, and what it would take to move past it (including time, cost, and risk), they may start to understand. You’re dealing with it first hand, so you know what’s involved.

It became the de facto way to send stuff with high confidence it went to the right place. Then tech addressed the paper-to-paper over one phone line issue with modem banks into a fax server. So all the same fundamental comm tech (so fully backwards-compatible), but a better solution for the company with that infrastructure. Such a company has little motivation to completely change to something new, since they’d have to retain this for anyone that hasn’t switched. Chicken-and-egg problem, that’s slowly moving forward.

It’ll be a long time before it’s gone completely. Perhaps in 20 years, but I suspect fax will still be around as a fallback/compatibility.

Right?

Let’s see, Pythagorean theorem, is what, a couple thousand years old, and a single statement, right? And it’s the foundation of geometry and trig. Hell, I regularly say it in my head (a2+b2=c2) when trying to figure out spatial relationships, for dumb stuff no less (will this table fit on my patio with room to walk around it?).

It’s how you ensure anything you’re trying to make square is square. In framing (shed, house, deck, whatever) it’s used to ensure you setup your string in the proper orientation and don’t end up with a parallelogram.

And the Periodic table… The bloody basis of understanding chemical reactions and physics.

I guess if you’re not teaching the Periodic Table, there’d be no hope if understanding evolutionary theory, since it’s predicated on chemical behaviour.

What’s your favorite race?

🤦🏼‍♂️

I guess there really are stupid questions after all.

So Ellie is the condescending one here, not the person supposedly “mansplaining”.

Or at least that’s what she seems to be saying.