I also wish all friends a happy new year! We have been spending ours with a good friend from Canada, for the last 5 or so days she has been here and we've spent it watching shows, going out to bars and introducing her to Sopapillas as they're made here in New Mexico. What a grand old time.
also something new I learned: In Canada, "reading socks" are cozy, thick, often fleece-lined slipper socks designed for warmth and comfort while reading, popular in bookstores like Chapters/Indigo and sold by various Canadian retailers and artisans, featuring styles from simple fleece to Canadian-themed designs using wool or synthetic blends. Until now I have not heard the term "reading socks" used, but it makes perfect sense!
Wow, so excited! My replacement Cadence arrived today. Tactile Engineering were kind enough to also include for us four hard-shell cases, so both Jess and myself get two of them, one for each Braille display unit. These cases are rectangular and pocketable, with a nice pocket for a charging cable on the inside, and a strap that you can secure over the display whilst it is in the case to keep it from moving around. Really like them, it'll really be useful for my international travels. New display works perfect, no uncalibrated pins causing troubles on it.
I was asked by a family member why it was taking so long to paste something large into a new Microsoft Word document on their computer, I sarcastically replied it was because it takes a while to upload it all to the copilot AI nonense first. And then I realized accidentally I might be right...I disabled copilot in Word and it went back to being instant again
So that's cool that Microsoft seems uploading everything you paste into a new Word doc to their servers now.
[Blog Post] AppleVis Announces Winners of the 2025 Golden Apple Awards https://www.applevis.com/blog/applevis-announces-winners-2025-golden-apple-awards?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
“‘If a fire occurs in the cabin, if we land on water, don’t check on the immigrants. Just make sure that you and the guards and the people that work for the government get off," one flight attendant was told.
“It was as if the detainees’ lives were worthless,’” said another.
I'm doing a tutorial series on how to create custom Ghost themes and switching from WordPress and I really didn't want to make the usual boring thumbnail, so I decided to draw it. I'll ink it and color it by hand and fix any weird stuff digitally in Gimp. Doing things with your hands, what a concept
linux is fun because sometimes you boot up and your monitor goes "by the way, i'm 640x480 now :)" and you go "why are you 640x480 now?" and it goes "dunno :)"
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney has vowed that 2026 will see huge economic growth for Canada's GDP, manufacturing, and exports, none of which will redound to you in the slightest.
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