I learned about an expensive headset brand today. Their website was fun, their product is exactly what I want, and they have a 5-year warranty. The headsets come with spare ear pads. Never heard about them before today. I somehow trust they’re worth the price.

(Still ended up just buying new foam pads for my current $30 headset, but I was tempted.)

A bunny?

We gave away computer parts on Craigslist a few months ago. It was a no-stress transaction and the receiver was a sweet old-school computer person building a basic machine for his kids to play Minecraft. Would do again.

From a “giving tech support” POV, nano is the best editor. Have you ever tried walking a non-techie through editing a config file on the command line, over the phone, no screen share? Nano is your friend. (I swear, this very expensive software I used to support got its sysadmins by picking whoever was absent the day the the client site figured out someone had to do it.)

Maybe. I don’t have a firm basis for my belief, so I’ll muddle on it a bit more.

I have the tiniest conflict of interest when it comes to police unions. Police shouldn’t have unions, buuuut my state’s state police union bargains alongside the other state employee unions. No one wants to cut pay or benefits to the police, so my pay and benefits are also fairly stable.

I get why we do it strategically, it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth every contract cycle.

Shared with my Linux friend that is learning Spanish to better communicate with the almost-in-laws. They were amused. update: so was their boyfriend, who helped them with the “bless Gabe Newell” line.