Thanks for reminding me of this. I did see the original post but, how soon we forget.

I heard a different take yesterday from Corey Doctorow that the real concern is global economic collapse!

Not something I’d considered, but I would say a frightening possibility!

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/econopocalypse/

Sorry for your loss

Upright piano with the front panel taken off

Not a book, but Brian Eno’s “Oblique Strategies”

Seconded. And if you want to avoid the Ubuntu sh!t you can go for Mint DE (Debian edition)

This … “Microsoft is a cancer sucking life out of everything it touches.”

Divorce her

There are all sorts of fabulous food/alcohol combinations

Cool. I’ll give you $50 for it 🤪

Rage-coloured glasses?

Maybe. But you won’t know until you actually try.

Just following up on many of the comments that ask, are you allowing enough rest/recovery? … I have a Garmin watch that gives a training status that I find a good indicator of whether my exercise is benefiting me or not. If my “load” is the same or going up and my “fitness” is going down it’s a good indicator that I’m not getting enough rest or that my current exercise has plateaued. I find it a good prompt to rethink what I’m doing.

And while I’m not disagreeing with this, it is also ok to check in with yourself and notice “ok, I have uncomfortable feelings” but then ask the question “Am I in danger?”. We all get uncomfortable some times but we’d never do anything new if we always stop ourselves just because we’re uncomfortable. The trick is learning the difference between good/safe uncomfortable and bad/dangerous uncomfortable, and to learn that you need to practice being with your feelings. Read up about exposure therapy.

Take a nap

30 years. Been married for 22.

I get the bitter taste in the mouth, but when the alternative is Windows??? I made my choice and bought an iMac recently so that I could finally ditch the last windows pc in the house (everything else is Linux). And then had my work PC updated to Win11 last week. Uggghhh …

Having more time to spend learning a new distro

Make sure you check out Fair.org too!

You kids, get off my lawn!