Yeah, agreed. I love that podcast but listening to it makes me too upset so I need to take breaks lol

I think that was a Supreme Court case, Glacier Northwest, Inc v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters (learned this on the December 5th 2023 ep of 5-4)

I switched from Windows a few years ago, and I had the hardest time getting used to moving/maximizing/resizing windows on Mac.

Not sure if that’s what you mean, but if so then “Rectangle” solved all my window management problems, so much so I bought the pro version almost immediately.

If you’re talking about MacOS, I’ve been using Maccy for this

Last I checked, Kobo will be better specs (screen, water proofness and connectivity) for the money, and if you’re technical it can be modified very heavily, including pretty easily user expandable storage.

Kindle will have a more seamless Amazon experience and maybe better support.

I have a Kobo Clara HD, and I love it to bits. Warm temperature backlight, and I have installed custom firmware on it which lets me use a different reader app, and run an SSH server on it so I can remotely transfer files etc.

Yeah, I do something similar to Andrew; bought a few IKEA tradfri buttons and remotes, and set them up to toggle lights or media in various rooms.

Is there a reason you wouldn’t want to just get a zigbee/zwave/wifi smart outlet switch?

Oh heck, you know what I just looked it up and I think I’m completely wrong. I don’t know where I heard that or why it stuck. They’re owned by taxhawk which appears to still be independent. I’ll amend my original comment

Me too! Unfortunately I believe they were bought by Intuit a while back, so I fully expect them to start sucking or disappear soon

Edit: Okay I think I was operating on faulty information/memory, or just bullshit. Disregard, sorry

As someone who used primarily windows for 20+ years, used the surface pro line from the 1st through 7th iterations, and now only runs with a MacBook Air, I would say absolutely get the cheapest M1 Air you can find.

If she’s not a heavy user and is just doing word processing and light computing, it will be vastly more than enough machine, and be best in class in the most important things I can think of when thinking about a laptop for a writer:

1. nice big, bright, high res display for crisp text and easy reading/writing

2. insane amounts of battery life for writing in cafes or libraries or wherever for probably longer than she could stand to work in any given day

3. nicely portable and discreet for carrying around to places where she can write

4. decent keyboard and possibly the best laptop trackpad around for ergonomics (such as they are, in a laptop)

Getting used to MacOS will take a few days at most, and there are plenty of free/Foss apps to improve quality of life for Windows users moving to macs.

My parents and I were at the store last week, coming back to our car in a handicap spot (my mom recently had knee surgery). Two assholes had already dropped their carts off in the blue painted areas next to our car blocking the door, and another asshole literally pushed his cart in front of us to join the pile.

The store’s entrance where all the carts were was literally a dozen steps away.

I was steaming mad all day, absolutely ruined my outlook on humanity for a few days

Nah, I just put a relay and esp32 together and connected it alongside the garage door switch (super old school). It sits on top of the opener in a little enclosure. I originally controlled it with mqtt, but later reflashed the esp with esphome.

My people! I knew I was starting to get into it when I built some multisensors and a garage door switch controlled by esp32s. Still haven’t done too many very complex things with automations, basically situational lighting and so on.