I somehow read this comment in the voice of the cleric performing the “mawwiage” ceremony in Princess Bride.
Cleric: “Sunwise…” long, uncomfortable pause. “And for the exact same weason.” Pause. “Clocks go clockwise because their pwedecessors did… and what were their pwedecessors?”
Humperdink: “Look, can we hurry this up?”
Cleric: “Sundials.”
Humperdink: “Just skip to the end!”
Cleric: “Countewclockwise… as said in another comment… would be… widdershins.”
Uno, dos, meow, meow, tres, cuatro!
Pretty little kitty chased a thing she saw.
Had a pouch of catnip and a feather boa
Furry purry, furry purry.
As someone who worked at a major U.S. newspaper in the late 90s, I think the world needs more people who think the way you have just expressed… valuing local information, empathizing with people outside your circle, and considering how your words will be received. I hope you find Lemmy to be a place where you feel comfortable contributing.
Thank you! That just made my day better!
I’m going to miss r/datasets, r/selfhosted and other subreddits that allowed me to tap into accessible niche knowledge. I’m sure there are subs I had not yet discovered, but a lot of the information they collected over the years may be gone. I hope those communities will find their way to Lemmy and rebuild.
FWIW, selfhosted does have a sort of “best of” list on GitHub at: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
I have the paid version.
I generally have it set to keep my MacBook Pro at 80% since it is always plugged in. I use the “sailing” mode. I think it helps, but as the author of the tool explains, it’s hard to know for sure.
I do not recommend paying for the software. The paid version will turn itself off every 30 days unless you let it phone home to verify that it’s still authorized. I’ve written/sold software before, so I get the concern about piracy, but this is going too far.
This means you can’t run it on an air-gapped machine. It also means the developer is collecting data tied to your name, address, credit card, IP, and computer usage every month and you can’t opt out. Most distressingly, it means that someday when the author loses interest in the software (or doesn’t renew his domain name, or has a heart attack, or sells it to some unscrupulous corp) the software you paid for will stop working.
This is the photographic equivalent of Lewis Black’s “if it wasn’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college.”
It doesn’t make sense at first, but your brain has to rationalize it so it comes up with a plausible explanation. It doesn’t have the context to know if that’s the right explanation, so while you’re driving to work and going about your day it’s still trying to process this in the background, quietly pushing you toward an aneurism years later.