My Labrador has excellent teeth.

Man’s best friend becomes man’s best mouth.

Tom Bombadil started as his children’s toy who became the narrator of his children’s bedtime stories.

Out of those, grew The Hobbit.

LotR was an intentional effort to turn the setting of the Hobbit into an epic fantasy.

Back in the day, Walmart and Apple fought over contactless pay standards for the US.

Apple’s standard was eventually mass adopted, and since then Walmart has refused to license the tech. So you have to use their app, which uses their own tech stack.

That’s fine. 1% per uberweird news cycle is the death of facebook.

Zuck invented the feed.

Japan also has a population in decline.

Seems like an important enough factor to mention.

Your Aunt should be paying enough taxes that owning a second property should be more or less unfeasible.

A fair system would have her seeking other retirement vehicles.

End-to-end encryption matters if your device isn’t actively trying to sabotage your privacy.

If you run Android, Google is guilty of that.

If you run Windows in a non-enterprise environment Microsoft is guilty of that.

If you run iOS or MacOS, Apple is (very likely) guilty of that.

Minix has not been updated in 10 years. It should not be used on anything connected to the internet.

Most “ultralight stripped down OS” will be built from linux these days. Usually Tiny Core Linux or Alpine.

not to mention…Every 5G iPhone has modem firmware running linux.

and of course every Android phone.

But yes anything else with an IP address that’s not a Windows/Mac/BSD computer… likely Linux.

The feetdraggers will slowly, begrudgingly follow–as always.

Floppy disks, too.

I don’t understand why everyone assumes using a VPN means paying for a third party.

It’s because that is what is advertised to them.

Also, push notifications. Most things could be done from a browser, but corpos have to have their push notifications.

It doesn’t matter if you’re the guy who turns every notification off and manages all those… 9/10 people won’t.

Pair of Thieves long legged boxer briefs their “superfit” material. Available at Target.

Apples turn brown when you freeze them.

You can re-teach yourself.

Touch typing is like learning different languages. Just because you learn a new one doesn’t mean you forget the first.

That’s a columnar stagger, not ortholinear.

I was kinda disappointed that this article didn’t explain columnar stagger.

I daily drive an iris by keebio.

“Must be a king!”

“Why do you say that?”

“Well, he doesn’t have shit all over him.”

The idea is to get people used to visiting KFC.