Hahaha.

I used to have a home office room, and I bought and installed a whiteboard on the wall, for noting things down, planning, to-do list etc.

For five years, it had a single scrap of paper blue-tacked to it, which read “1) Buy a whiteboard pen”.

I eventually solved it by moving house.

I think it only works if your brain is wired in a particular way.

Tons of open browser tabs? Long, impossible-to-complete to-do list? Unread emails? Unplayed Steam Games?

Good chance of it working :)

When I wanted to stop smoking, the idea of never smoking again would make me stressed and make me want to smoke.

The solution was I put “have a cigarette” on my to-do list, at the bottom.

So I never quit smoking, I’m definitely going to have a cigarette at some point, when I get round to it - just after I’ve re-tiled the bathroom, wrote a novel, made a computer game, taught the cat to play piano, finished a series of 100 paintings, wrote an album of songs etc…

… so it’s over ten years since I last had a cigarette, and there’s only a thousand or so things to do on my to-do list.

They exist. Go on a Steam discussions page for a popular game that doesn’t currently support Linux, and create a new post politely asking about the possibility of Linux support.

*A wild WINDOWS ZEALOT appears*

I think everyone’s got the CAD/3D programs covered, so a slightly “out there” answer:

If you’re just doing 2D blueprints for yourself, do you actually just need a 2D vector program for doing a scale drawing with measurements?

I’ve done a lot of floorplans / layouts/ site maps etc using Inkscape, for instance.

It depends on exactly what you’re wanting out the other end - so you may be lacking a lot of the features in a full CAD program, but the learning curve is comparatively so shallow that you might have a working plan by the end of the day, rather than the end of the month.

These three are brothers from the same litter, and they’re best mates 90% of the time, thankfully :)

That’s very impressive. My personal best was 3:

I’m a big fan of this one. I’d recommend it to anyone who likes Rimworld, Dwarf Fortress, Space Haven etc. Seems to be in committed and constant development for both content and bugfixes.

I guess it’s meant to make him look like a King or Emperor on a coin - so it doesn’t matter if he looks like a multi-chinned potato in a wig, he looks like King multi-chinned potato in a wig.

Sorry I wasn’t clear about that - my replaced ones have never come off again - it’s the original ones on the shirt which tend to.

[Edit] Note that I am always wearing a shirt, and much of my work is manual/technical, so mine perhaps get knocked off a bit more frequently than others might.

Yeah, it totally makes sense for some uses.

That is significantly more complicated than how I was taught to sew in a button. Is this just for big metal buttons on jeans or something? It seems massively over the top for normal shirt buttons, which come off fairly regularly.

Roughly what I was taught (for a 4 hole button, in a “cross” shape):

1. Shove threaded needle through material into hole in button
2. Go across diagonally and go down through the opposite hole and through the material
3. Under the material, go across sideways a bit and come up in a different hole
4. Repeat 1-3 a bunch of times until it feels strong enough.
5. Tie off the thread and cut off the excess.

You say “best”, “highest performing” etc, but we asked a panel of immorally wealthy, elderly white male sex offenders who their ideal upper management employee was - and they unanimously suggested other immorally wealthy, elderly white male sex offenders, and suggested that employing anyone else is a DEI hire.

Unless we could get the horse to shit directly on him, that’d be the next best thing :)

I’m pretty sure I’ve managed to set fire to him in jail before, but I can’t quite remember how I did it - it was quite a while ago.

He’s still there, to this day. I might boot it up and pay him a visit :)

Enjoy your prawn flavoured ice cream.

“Micah can stay in prison a little while longer, I’m going hunting, fishing, horse taming, plant collecting…”
- me, as Arthur Morgan, 2022

Bear in mind it can depend what country someone is from.

Traditionally, a Briton saying “I’m kind of okay at this” might mean they’re one of the best in the world (mustn’t blow one’s own trumpet).

A Briton who says “I’m great at this” (or anything beyond “pretty good”) is likely an arrogant charlatan.

In contrast, an American might say “I’m good at this” to mean “I am better than average”.

I’d imagine other countries have their own tendencies for under/overstatement.

That “Mar-a-Lago” sounds strangely familiar. I wonder where I’ve heard that before?

We kind of go “brur”.