Pro bono is a term for lawyers when they accept unpaid legal work.

The lawyer turns out to be a dog, who offered to work pro bono, thinking it had to do with bones, because dogs like chewing on bones.

When the client clarifies that pro bono means unpaid, the dog lawyer realized he made a bad assumption about what pro bono means and had assumed that instead of being paid money, he’d be paid with bones.

This is the golden answer.

Anything that strays from the defaults (especially in windows) risks getting reset during a major automatic update, and now you’re getting support calls because “the internet doesn’t work right anymore”.

I JUST TOOK IT OFF FOR A SECOND

I think the general question you always need to ask when buying something “nonessential” is: will I use this enough to justify the cost?”

Whether that’s a MacBook or a car or a gaming console or even a $0.99 app.

Just be honest with yourself. I once bought a MacBook Pro because I decided I was going to develop iPhone apps. I never learned Objective C. I barely used the laptop at all. It was a waste of money, plus stressing over the guilt of never using it.

Flip side: you only live once. Don’t trap yourself in a mindset that you always need to save every penny and never enjoy yourself with small things.

Everyone exists somewhere in the spectrum between saving and spending. Figure out where you live on that spectrum and make your purchasing decisions accordingly.

What exactly is the point of this comment?

It bugs me that snow blower sounds as lame as leaf blower when it’s actually 10x more awesome.

Marinate in it.

It sucks and it’s good for you.

Awesome, thank you! I thought I was just SOL.

There’s Canadian bourbon options?!

Like, the liquor with that flavour profile. I know nobody else is “allowed” to call it bourbon.

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Oh I love this. This is like Taylor Swift Ticketmaster level interest. Can’t wait to see what people start finding over the next days.

Huggies diapers fucking say “up to 100% leakproof” on the box.

I just want to see a picture of the face of the person that thought that was reasonable.

There’s something intoxicating about that first flushing sound as a clog gets knocked loose and the water starts draining at full speed.

I think the more interesting version of this question is “how long can really good sex keep you from noticing all the bullshit?”.

Everyone has blinders on at the start of a relationship, but once you reach a point where the amazing sex is “your regular sex”, when do you start to have uncomfortable conversations about your future?

If the bubble doesn’t burst in 10 years, it might be that it’s not a bubble.

I’ve been hearing about the housing bubble for my entire life. It hasn’t burst. I think maybe we’re using the wrong word there.

AI is weird one because there’s such a mind boggling amount of investment in something that hasn’t brought any financial returns yet. Either the Visionaries see something we don’t, or it’s going to collapse or contract after one or two more earnings calls.

I’m just using Unraid for the server, after many iterations (PhotonOS, VMware, baremetal Windows Server, …). After many OSes, partial and complete hardware replacements, and general problems, I gave up trying to manage the base server too much. Backups are generally good enough if hardware fails or I break something.

The other side of this is that I’ve moved to having very, very little config on the server itself. Virtually everything of value is in a docker container with a single (admittedly way too large) docker compose file that describes all the services.

I think this is the ideal way for how I use a home server. Your mileage might vary, but I’ve learned the hard way that it’s really hard to maintain a server over the very long term and not also marry yourself to the specific hardware and OS configuration.

The audio is missing where every single cyclist keeps repeating “this will work this will work this will work”.

Sizing is unacceptably insane. There has to be an explanation other than “everyone in the clothing industry is an idiot”, but I haven’t seen one.

Just got underwear for an 18-24 MONTH old and they’re bigger than my 14 year old niece’s underwear.

I had a similar fridge and loved it. It’s hard to see all the Samsung appliance hate online and not worry it’s going to need constant repairs, but I never had an issue.

Isn’t that a pointer? I thought a cursor is the flashing symbol that shows where your keyboard focus is.

Serious answer:

If the internet didn’t exist, I’d be peer pressured into following whatever norms are followed by all the people in my physical surrounding. I’d take my cues from what my parents and family and classmates told me were “right” and I wouldn’t question outside it.

I’d probably spend more time “socializing”, which as an introvert would exhaust me. But I wouldn’t know any different, so it would just be The Way It Is.

But you asked if my social life would be “better”, and better is hard to define. Better for… general community compliance? Probably. Better for my general mental health? Probably not.

I like spending 15 minutes catching up on my Lenny communities and reading what you degenerate fucks are up to. I am less excited about “going out with friends” every night and “doing something”.