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Snowflakes are white.  Sounds pretty racist to me.

At some point we collectively need to sack up and deal with the fact that life is full of little things we don't like, and we don't get to change them just because we don't like them.

I am offended by about 50% of the commercials I see on TV.  Either because they have a cut every 1.2 seconds (obviously aimed at millennials, not at me) or because they show the dad to be a doofus and the kids to be wise, benevolent, geniuses.  Or because they show a beautiful, athletic woman completely absorbed in pedalling away on her exercise bike while her little kid sits there at the side wondering when mommy is ever going to fix breakfast or give him a split-second of her oh-so-busy life, and yet the advertiser obviously implies that you'll be a much better parent if you'll just spend more time on the bike getting toned and fit.

But I'm not starting petitions to get them changed to my liking.

P.S.  And that sacking up means not only not making ridiculous complaints, but to say "no" to those who do.  And I am not advocating that we go around looking for reasons to tell people to suck it up.  For example, I have long thought that Confederate statues and war memorials should not be on public property and should not be funded by taxpayer money.  Most of them were put up as a way to tell black people to stay in their place, and we should have no place in our society for that.

But to get outraged about the "Yellow Line"--sheesh!

I can't believe Threadgills is closing permanently.    It already stung when the Riverside location closed, but now there's no more Threadgills at all, sadly.
Aside from the plague going on, every day Austin seems a little less-Austin-y, or at least the Austin I was a part of so many years ago.


Been trying to support the local restaurant biz here, but we only order out once a week.  I'm sure there will be many that end up shutting down permanently around here as well. 

I had no idea Threadgills is closing

sad

bummer

My laptop is just a cheapie, $400 laptop.  I think it's a dimension, but I really don't know.  I know it's not a performance model, but it still seems slow. 

It's amazing to me how cheap you can buy a fully featured computer, even more so how cheap you can buy a full featured laptop for these days.  I remember in the 90's a full featured computer was about $3,000 once you figured in the monitor and printer.  Then they got faster (and cheaper!).  How often can you say that?  I remember when the price went below $1k, that was a big deal.  There was a lot of talk about how much Microsoft charged for Windows and what was going to happen to their price when it went below $800.  Then it went below that, and then halved again.

We have different memories of computers in the '90s, Gigem.
I got my first personal computer after I got back from Korea (where I used a PC every day) in 1988.  It was an IBM PS1 (?) with a 129 Mb Kb (thanks, Mr. Tulip) hard drive that I got at Sears for under $300.  There were obviously much more expensive ones available.
I was on either my 2nd or 3rd PC by 1993, when I was assigned to West Point.  The head of our Mapping, Charting, and Geodesy group, whose whole profession revolved around computers, said about getting a new one: "Get the $300 computer.  It won't be the best, but it will do what you need it to do.  When you need a new one, get another $300 computer."
I'm talking desktops here.  I don't like laptops or briefcases.  When I have to use one I will, with a mouse, but I don't enjoy using them at all.  My wife has a Dell laptop that I've had to take to summer teacher workshops.  I hate it.  Not because it's a Dell, but because it's a laptop.
Anyway, my current HP Pavillion (tower CPU) is probably going on 8 or 9 years, and it works fine for what I need it to do.  (Actually, its monitor failed after the warranty expired and I got a replacement from Acer.)  It--the original computer setup--cost more in the range of $400, IIRC.  So, inflation.
All the students where I teach are issued, to keep, Google Chromebooks.  I'm not sure what we're paying for those, but it's got to be in the range of $250-300, I would think.  I wouldn't give $25 for one.  It is a piece of junk, as far as I'm concerned.

I built my home PC around 2008 for about $600. It was nowhere near bleeding edge when I built it. I don't need to do anything to it today for one simple fact:

All the video games are played on the PS4 or the Switch.

Realistically, there aren't many things a home user does on a desktop style PC that touch the power of the processor except for video games. To a certain degree, maintaining sufficient memory can help with having apps open, and a decent video card handles most of the display load. Unless  you're folding proteins, optimizing databases, or resolving concurrent streams, your machine just won't get that taxed.

My networking gear, on the other hand...

The Dell Dimension was discontinued in 2007 so your computer is well over 10 years old which is very long time for a computer

Trust me if you invest in a new low cost Dell you will be very pleased at the performance

My bad, it's an Inspiron.  It's brand new.  Like I said, I don't find it any faster than my old one that is at least 4-5 years old with a full hard drive.