Touchscreens are cheaper UI part too. It saved money and “looked cool”… Win-win for shareholders

The book cover would be a photo of Musk 😆

Feeling for a 2cm x 1.5cm button is way different than trying to read braille.

At least Menards offers a truck you can rent temporarily to transport your large items home.

Usually /msg NickServ help can get you pointed in the right direction

IRC is an open standard. No one owns it, so anyone can make a client. Discord, is locked down and proprietary. One of the benefits of this is that they can onboard users with a refined experience. IRC requires newcomers to do a bit of homework to choose an IRC client and choose a network/server.

IRC is open. If you aren’t around, someone can join the server using your nickname, so IRC services were created to help combat this. Some networks use other services, but mainly there’s NickServ which you setup an account with to register your nick. If anyone tries to impersonate you, NickServ will do bad things to the imposter

Discord also retains chat history. When you join a channel on IRC, you don’t see any of the previous chat history.

The great thing about IRC is that it’s not owned by a corporation. If you’re interested in a modern open standard that has the same features as Discord, check out Matrix

Thankfully that will never be a problem I’ll have to worry about

The most well-intentioned HOAs can easily go to shit when power-tripping assholes, with all the free time in the world, take them over.

Yeah, I don’t even get mad at them any more. They are hardcore survivors and proliferators, and will have a welcome haven in my lawn to piss off dick neighbors like in the post

Oh yeah! Cracker Barrel, as far as I can tell, never offered hard tack made items on the menu! Boo! False advertising!

Thanks for the info, I didn’t realize that’s where the name came from :)

Back in the early 90s, before Cracker Barrels weren’t so plentiful, my Granny would drive over an hour to the nearest one to eat when family visited. She was also great at cooking southern food, but she made the effort. However, now it definitely isn’t as good as it was 5-10 years ago. Nowadays, if I had to drive an hour to get to the nearest one, I wouldn’t be making the effort.