itsJoelle

I haven't smoked a cigarette in six years. Most of the time I use nicotine lozenges during the day, and my vape is for when I'm drinking or I need to fall on my crutch. It's familiar to my known vice, and stopped me from the more dangerous method of handling my addiction.

Grand stand all you will about how it was 'solved' over night, but I got hooked on the bitch in the 2000's due to family history and culture. People still smoke all around me, and it was only a matter of time before I tried it and got hooked. And I've made peace with that. That's before we even touch a more terrifying addiction that exists all over my country within opiate-families despite them having a stronger controlled classification. While the chemical exists in the environment potential addicts will happen across it and subsist.

'It beats smoking' is a pretty important bar for me, as an addict, because it reduces harm to myself

Also, as a vaper who switch from cigs because I was desperate for an alternative, I'm also curious about the different strata of products that exist on the market. For example, I visit a juice shop that mixes their products on site with pure materials, and I get to customize what exactly appears within my harmful juices. I build and maintain my parts as well. How does this approach compare to 'over the connivence store counter' kits like Juul?

It wouldn't surprise me if those products contain preservatives, or byproducts of a corporation skirting regulatory lines, that could be hazardous for consumer health. Though, that is purely my speculation — yet I wonder if my choice method of getting my sweet, sweet nicotine will get lumped in with everything else.

Or like Google shoving .webm down our throats as well?

I might be misremembering the context of the quote, but Sagan likening other sciences to 'stamp collecting' really lead me being the most elitist, insufferable jerk during the first few years of my twenties.

Neat. What would the use case for this be though? Maybe while riding on a plane?

I found myself reaching for my Linux machine less and less overtime once I learned about the existence of iSH so I can use the CLIs I got accustomed to on Linux. (However I do feel the Window management not as fluid and customizable as Linux, obviously.)

It's basically my gaming machine at this point.

Yup. I worked as a locksmith for a decade there that reproduced immobilizer keys that were 'dealer only.' My tool allow me do all sorts of wild shit that was outside my field of interest -- but resetting/setting the door panels on Fords was super nifty.

Bit of a hot take after a few beers and I'm going into the weekend. I'm not taking shots at the person I'm replying to:

Strangely enough, I feel the same about my work's Window's laptop at the end of the week. There's a feeling called awe, where I wonder how things aligned for me to experience the daunting interconnected occurrences spanning hundreds of lives for me to be precisely where I am now. Usually it's around a landmark or beautiful art where I stop and wonder. I felt awe working on a fullstack of Microsoft products, but it was a twisted dark one. One where I wonder how on earth people think this company is competent at anything when literally anything else in a software product category is better, save Windows and Office. VSCode is sweet, but even that is open sourced.

And those two only win because of market share at this point. That's all they have, and one has default telemetry and the other a subscription.

Yeah, I didn't care for it while I was a reddit user. The guy literally doesn't care if you post 'fuck /u/spez' randomly in a comment section. Why let the guy live rent free in your head when you can step away from his domain and influence and never bothered again?

They were one of the few that gave him that large of a margin, iirc. The rest were in the 90's for Hillary.

I think it's fine for the handsets, but if they're trying to push the iPad as a "semi computer" for the general consumer it really needs to be revamped. You can do many of the same things file managers do on other operating systems, but it's extremely non-intuitive at times — so many users think the functionality is missing. Because if they don't know it's there it might as well be!

Holy shit! That's what I get for reading only the headline.

That's spooky.