In today’s chautauqua…

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Cake day: September 15th, 2025

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  • Not OP, but I also live in the woods (albeit I’m in a 4x4 vehicle and don’t stay in one place for long periods).

    The point for me is not to, and nature is my TV. When I do need internet, though, I’m in town stocking up on supplies or hanging out in a coffee shop.

    Also, though, 5G and the abundance of towers means that hotspots work in a lot more places than they used to. More often than not, my phone still gets data even deep in the middle of nowhere. I’m not doing any gaming or streaming, but again I don’t necessarily want to. It’s just a tool to get information some times and make dumb internet comments.





  • I was in a really bad place, mentally, while on the road a couple years back. Had a dual sport motorbike and decided to be really, really reckless in the middle of the desert in Terlingua, TX. Ended up nose diving into a hole, smashing my face on my windshield, and eating a lot of sand. Busted my goggles, the windshield, and the clutch lever was toast.

    When I finally got up and started to lift my bike off the ground, I found a bunch of peculiar tiny rocks near where I had kicked up all the dust. Ran a magnet over them, and sure enough they were meteorite fragments. Made a necklace out of one and took the others back to camp with me and gave them to my traveling partners at the time.

    If you’re ever in that area, do yourself a favor and check out Agua Fria. Cowboy camping out there is magnificent, and the natural spring it’s named after is, well, very aptly named. Very quiet and it might just change your life.




  • Same. My first thought is the dead thing is snu (reddit’s mascot) and the Mona Lisa has something to do with the recent Louvre heist? Or maybe some commentary on reddit training AI with user data?

    Being in this community, it probably also has something to do with, “see how easy it is to draw something original without AI?” This is certainly original.











  • No differently than it’s used in Windows, plus a few more key-chords that utilize it. That’s the default in GNOME and KDE at least, and probably other DEs as well.

    I’m more interested in what people do with that strange menu key sitting next to my touch-starved right-CTRL. I know it’s for pulling up the context menu, but I have literally never used it for any reason. When I’m 100% keyboard, I’m probably in a terminal and it won’t do anything any way.