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Soak it in soapy water. Use an ultrasonic cleaner, if you have one. Dry it and apply machine oil to the joints. Should be an easy job.

I was thinking up a long reply but it really just all boils down to that, no need to say more.

Many, many moons ago (must have been around 2006?) I managed to procure a FingerWorks. It was magic, like holding a piece of computing history!

It allowed a lot of the gestures we take for granted, to switch applications or workspaces, to go back a page, etc. But it also had really cool stuff. You could bind gestures like twisting your fingers clockwise to open a file (just like opening a jar!) or counterclockwise to close it. Pinch and zoom for copy and paste.

I was only able to get a hold on a Dvorak copy. And because the key labels were printed on the board, you couldn't really change the layout. Getting used to a split layout, no keys and Dvorak at the same time was too much and I had to sell it again. But I've been using split keyboards ever since!

To invoke Monty Python, why is drinking American beer like making love in a canoe?

Yeah, you're right. Wasn't properly caffeinated and my knee jerked. Sorry about that, Hobbes!

The above is fake news. Maybe.

Highly doubt it. Der Spiegel has a record of solid investigative journalism, and they used publicly accessible information.

A search of leaked user data revealed that the email address and, in some cases, even the password associated with it, could be found in over 20 publicly accessible leaks.

When you thought it couldn't get any worse, it did, in fact, get a lot worse.

Or for the full Eink experience, you get an Android Reader like Boox and install an editor.

Bitcoin absolutely is traceable. Addresses might not be clear names, but all transactions are public. Which makes me wonder why the government wants to use Bitcoin.

It's interesting that this trope about bussed or paid protesters gets repeated so often. In Germany, the AfD claimed that protesters were bussed and got paid, even with tax money. It's like they share talking points.

My issue wasn't SMB, but automounting the share. As in, turn on wireless, the share is available. I'm coming from Linux and am pretty clueless with MacOS.

= Aldi Sports!

Good that you didn't include Jack Wolfskin. Had a few things, really shitty quality.

Meanwhile in Europe: "Honey: contains honey from EU and non-EU countries."

Translating text. I recently had to translate a bunch of architectural requirements into english. I honestly don't know if deepl.com uses GenAI or what. But the job was pretty much copy and paste. Occasionally I had to change a word because the connotation was a bit off, and a few times it got confused with tangled, run-in input and I had to rephrase whole sentences. I'm a native speaker in both languages and I estimate it would have taken me at least three times as long.

My boss joked that when you pass a certain age it's not your left and right knee, but the bad one and the not so bad one.

And I realized, damn it, he's right.

My SO has a MacBook, and I thought no sweat, I'm sure I can just autofs or something onto the NAS so that the photo storage is always there. I was wrong. Why dies it have to be such a pain? So clunky, so unreliable.

This means less subsidies for farmers - I'm sure they're thrilled with that!

Poor man meets rich man and they look at each other. Says the poor man, were I not poor, you'd not be rich!

• Berthold Brecht

Boycott them all.

My girlfriend and I visited family in Florida and did a road trip down to Key West. I got the first album from Gorillaz and it was pretty much the only thing we listened to the whole time down US1.

And now, over 20 years later, I still get this relaxed cruising feeling and can smell the humid, salty air. Just wonderful.