I just sent this to my partner because the dog is our one cat. And the cat is the other.

Wonderful, unique creatures.

Once she realizes people don’t run away if she isn’t barking that should help. Good luck with your training.

Why is she barking? Correct that behaviour and I bet 80% of people would stop treating you and your dog like a threat. If a dog barks at me, I leave. It tells me the owner hasn’t spent the time training them and that the dog doesn’t want me there.

That’s always the way.

I label my alarms but then reuse them and instead of deleting the old thing I often just type the new thing. My 7am alarm for awhile was ground beef Shania Twain crossbow boots.

I have a gas stove but the last few places I lived the electric stove was a 240v. Still available I’m sure (?) but not cheap on the shelf at cantire.

And pay attention if you are buying one that you don’t need to connect it! Let the company know you’ll buy a “dumb” fridge to avoid their bullshit.

Thanks for the detailed response!

While I agree we don’t know everything yet, it’s kind of infuriating to have one side -the side who has been responsible for what? 80% of political violence in the past decade,- immediately start calling for violence and retribution, while the other side says “you know, maybe the side spewing hateful rhetoric non-stop is partly responsible…”

What big shifts would occur between the originals (which I read as a teen but that was ages ago) and the Peter Jackson trilogy? Coles notes for thekkids who didn’t pay attention.

Is it pronounced Jandalf?

Ripley was small, even for an Earth Pony.

How about Waps Factory? That would be a great movie.

Or is this a different Iain Banks… I feel like I tripped on this before.

My dad’s and I both occasional partake in a specific ritual that goes as follows:

1. Crack open an ice cold Coke Zero (also works with coke. And probably other colas).

Take a few sips while you either pull fresh from the garden or out of the fridge:

2. Radishes

Wash them up. You can slice, quarter or leave whole.

Get snacking.

Enjoy your fresh, slightly spicy (or really spicy depending!) radishes with your cold bubbly coke.

3. Wait.

4. Burp

5. Transcend this mortal plane, bask in the glory of the radish and coke burps that follow.

Fin

So… Do you just have an extension or something that replaces TH with your b/p (thorn?) I see you didn’t use it when you use the word thorn.

Can you link to or provide an explanation for us curious folk?

I’ll give Linux Mint a go! Thanks

Thank you. I have heard that, and I’m interested in switch my home computer and “Netflix and YouTube on the tv” computer over.

Any recommendations on where to start with that?

I used Linux as a 11 year old back in… Late 90’s? And it was not user friendly but I was so cool it didn’t matter…

Until I couldn’t get a game other than Quake 2 running on my lan network.

Haven’t checked on it since but I’m overdue and ready.

Oh my. THANK YOU for that edgeblocker! Going to get that on every computer in my home.

Yeah I’m not “the boss” of my parents. My dad was very tech savvy, but he doesn’t have the same memory and cognition as he used to so when I set it up nice he likes it, but any friction sets him off to “solve” the problem… By doing some random totally different thing that doesn’t so much solve the problem as “gets it working, sort of” with a browser he recognizes. Then because there are ads he loses interest and just puts on the 24/7 news cycle. :(

So my parents use chrome even though I constantly install Firefox and hide chrome. Problem there is they end up with Edge so I stopped doing that. (Didn’t windows get in trouble for this kind of market control in the 90’s?)

So I had Ublock origin on chrome for them but it’s “not supported” anymore and my usual method of ignoring what it says and turning it back on are now failing.

Any help?

That sounds great. I’m bad at reading (not bad at it. Just don’t do it lol) but I’ll put that in my audiobooks for long trips pile. It sounds very much up my alley.