Anyone have any laptop recommendations? There are so many choices. For development-related reasons, I should probably have one with a touch screen, which neither of my machines have. Also would be good to have decent specs, in case I need to run a VM or compile a large project (right now I can use my work machine for those things, but want to have options in case that changes at some point).

Or, if I could find something used and inexpensive that had a touch screen, then that would work, too--if I need something more powerful down the road, then I could worry about it then.

Some answers to FAQ from a life long Oklahoman

-why is everyone freaking out over the forecasted snow storm?

Our state has very little of the infrastructure needed to deal with a large amount of snow or extended cold weather.

-why are the grocery stores empty?

Everyone is scared they will be stuck at home with no power, no water, and no hope that the government will be willing to help.

-why all the milk and bread?

I honestly do not know. Me and mine have 2 weeks of shelf stable things to munch on but we have the privilege to be prepared, most of the state are unable to afford their basic needs day to day and cannot adequately prepare for things like this.

- why does your government suck?

"Rugged individualim for some, gut wrenching poverty for most." Is the motto of the GOP whom have a super majority in our legislature. They are currently actively campaigning to defund libraries, public schools, and county services because "it's not nice to make rich people pay taxes" or something.

- you seem angry.

That's not a question.

#Oklahoma #Snow

Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant media.mit.edu/publications/you…

New brain rot successfully unlocked by using ChatGPT and other similar AI tools. Over many millennia evolution helped you develop critical thinking skills and you are giving that all away chasing some fools' dreams who think you can do better things in life without money or work. At the end of the day, you will have neither.

Sometimes the job interview just wants to gain code exec on your machine:

runjak.codes/posts/2026-01-21-…

Local girl failed the coding interview:
I don't think they've got a job for me anymore now that I got their repos deleted⁉️

Me suena una canción que decía algo así como: "Triki triki tri triki triki tri mon amour !!!"

Es una canción superar vieja de un tipo como con pelo largo.

Nunca supe que significaba triki triki tri ni como se llamaba la canción.

Imagine telling someone in 1950 that train travel across Europe will one day be the expensive alternative chosen by well-off people with environmentalist opinions, while unskilled workers will only be able to afford air tickets, and arrive in a fraction of the time.

#trains #climate

What instant communication, thread-based platform do you use at least once a month?
Just trying to get an idea of the popularity of different options - multiple choices possible, please boost around!

If you think we should add some choices, please cite them in comment and I'll do a 2nd poll. They would have to be similarly thread / themes / channel - based, with a phone app but also available in the browser (e.g. maybe Matrix? But website-only platforms like Discourse would not work).

#Discord #Teams #MSTeams #Slack #Zulip #AcademicChatter (but not only)

• Discord (11%, 1 vote)
• Teams (44%, 4 votes)
• Slack (0%, 0 votes)
• Zulip (11%, 1 vote)
• Other / None / see results (33%, 3 votes)

I thought I was going crazy since #Today I can't find any obvious mention of #Dovecot and #ChatMail servers.

BUT, here it is: github.com/chatmail/relay/tree…

Based on the kinda snippy text there in the readme, I guess the #DeltaChat folks decided they want to down-play the dovecot dependency in case they decided to do something else in future.

Also, "custom builds" might make some folks ... itchy.

relay/scripts/dovecot at main · chatmail/relay

chatmail service deployment scripts and docs . Contribute to chatmail/relay development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub