MidnightBanjo

It’s a problem even for those of us who are neurotypical (my son is not which is why I follow this community also, so as he gets older I can understand better).

But as someone said, bosses especially will say this and they really just want you to say it was your fault.

In my mind, the difference is if you are excusing the behavior.

“I’m sorry I’m late, I missed my alarm” is an explanation because I’m not excusing the behavior, just explaining.

“I’m late because my alarm didn’t go off” is an excuse because I’m asking to excuse the behavior.

That said, excuses seem to have this bad reputation as being just a reason for laziness, but they really shouldn’t as they can be valid.

Example, my work requires 2FA to log in, which I get via a text. I use a local carrier and “our vendor who handles texting went down”. In that sense, that was my excuse for being late getting logged in - and it wasn’t laziness.

Happy Bean Day

Gotcha.

I know Mental Outlaw had a video about powershell scripts to help reboot Windows 10

Link

That might help speed it up and stop Windows from doing unnecessary background stuff and using resources

Seeing lots of excellent suggestions for general (7-zip, Notepad++, etc).

Foobar2000 is a good music player

I don’t know if it’s good, but I guess there is now a Lemmy Desktop app https://webcatalog.io/en/apps/lemmy/

I saw you said you use Plex. I assume you use Steam for gaming?

Is there any specific feature/use you want QoL improvements for?

I had forgotten about this game. It was a fun time. I think there was a Jungle Strike also

The last memory I have of Desert Strike going to a local video game and card game place (Heebeegeebees in Ogden, Utah before they expanded) with some of my siblings and buying this for some portable system (GBA?) and starting to play.

I then heard the owner (who was still in the shop back then) say “We can do this the easy way or the hard way”. It had transpired that one of my siblings had tried to steal something. Cops got called, fun times.

For those curious, the rumor was that the easy way was police and the hard way was him chasing you with a bat

Next he can install Skyrim and all the mods. ALL THE MODS!!!

Found a nice gem on the App Store called Golden Soul

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/golden-soul/id6499178439

Free (so far). No ads, neat story and mechanics so far. Tree stumps with knives

Just a happy brain in a happy jar

Hey, Desktop environments can make or break. I remember when GNOME 4 first came out, before any improvements, and there was a lot of unhappiness.

Will be cool to see a Linux Desktop environment designed by a company like System76

Good to know.

Yeah, my understanding is the NSA stores all encrypted texts they intercept so when they can get a good quantum computer they can break them.

Glad groups like signal have started updating their encryptions to help handle that

I hope so too. Nice, affordable transport for many