I don’t have any electronic devices I couldn’t live without, or rather, that couldn’t have their essential functions served by a quick trip to the public library.

Moctezuma’s Revenge and Bruce Lee on the Commodore64

It’s not about how many are made nearly as much as it’s about how many are thrown away.

I’ve only just begun on this, but my next software project is to rewrite my blogging software to use ActivityPub, especially for comments.

Good point: Look at lemmy - kbin - piefed. The guy behind kbin thought “lemmy is nice but I could make something better”, and then whoever is behind mbin saw that and said “I can make kbin better” and forked it. But without starting over in terms of connectivity or content! And now we have piefed which is on the edge of being even better and it’s still introperable. The power of that can’t be undersold.

The other person needs to either want to become self aware, or at least want to please the one doing the correcting.

By pausing the student in the middle of acting and having her reflect on the why of her action.

The is the Pride Month content I came here for.

I think I used an Apple ][ through the gifted program before we got a used Commodore 64 at home, but I spent more time on the C64. Taught myself to type and to program in BASIC.

HTML doesn’t “run”. It’s not a scripting language, it’s a markup language. All it does is mark sections of the document for the browser to display.

CSS is the rules for how to display the marked-up document. Even when CSS is not defined for a document, the default stylesheet of the browser is used. It’s not an interpreted language.

well, a markup language, not necessarily hypertext markup language

No dice, looking at the scores on recent comments I’ve made is how I microdose dopamine.

I used to not use a case, because I had a ruggedized hiking phone that didn’t need one.

I’ve donated information but never money.

$950 housing

~$450 utilities & phones

~$150 transit

~$400 groceries

and then a variable amount on medical, clothing, eating out, and travel, the rest goes into long-term savings

Chicago, I’m a waitress myself and support a family of five here on that income.

Again, by spending less than the median housing cost, ideally by spending no more than a third of the median housing cost.

Eg. The median rent in Chicago is about $2K\mo right now. But you can live an more economically depressed part of town and get a one-bedroom for $1.1K or a three bedroom for that same $2K and split that with two roommates.

I’m not OP and her proposal isn’t perfect, but this particular critique just doesn’t hold water when she specified the median housing cost.

TBF you can still support dependants as a part-time waitress today.

Only if you live alone and aren’t willing to live in lower-cost housing.