I just hope the Fediverse never becomes unusable without age verification.

If not me, then who? If not now, then when?

...as an adult, you realize that much of the time, no one is going to come save you.

has... has no one ever heard of pajamas? 🤯

(sssh, nobody tell this sub about onesies)

honestly, looking up flex box makes me think that learning CSS might be less frustrating than dealing with this crappy WordPress interface... I think I could learn this https://www.w3schools.com/csS/css3_flexbox.asp

But I'd have to somehow host my site, though, right? I've never had to do that before, I just let WordPress handle that. I don't think I'm ready to set up my own server... I have zero experience with anything like that and also only have one working computer right now. (My other, older laptop needs more expensive/extensive repair work than I thought.) Is there a hosting service you'd recommend? Or am I back to needing a "bloated CMS" that offers hosting?

ah, OK. Thank you! That makes sense now.

maybe I'm being dumb but I don't really get it. I mean yes, they're on a log, but what is the time part? Is it literally just that they're cavemen and therefore out of their time? Also, why are they floating?

What issue do people have with JavaScript? (Should I be against JavaScript?)

bonus: sometimes you put non-garbage in and it's STILL garbage out! Because the thing you're putting it into is itself garbage. Exhibit A: trying to do good work for a company with bad procedures.

yeah, I would love this to be true but it looks like it's probably disinformation.

hope someone actually manages to get rid of the bots someday!

I don't like using the word "theft" because it implies this is primarily a property rights issue, and IMO it's much more of a labor rights and moral rights issue. This ain't gonna be solved by just enforcing existing copyright laws when employers, publishers, social media companies, etc. can effectively force creators to waive their rights as copyright holders. (Sign away your rights to AI training or you won't get a record deal! Sign away your rights to AI training or you won't get any work at all!) I tend to think we should focus on bringing back sectoral bargaining (like what the Hollywood writers and actors did) and/or creating new laws that recognize inalienable moral rights for creators.

But otherwise, yes. I very much agree.

It will definitely have a blog. Probably some other projects eventually (TBD which ones, but I'll at least want to display photos nicely). I also want to make the site colorful if possible, maybe a little offbeat-looking.

not very, but one of them has pretty good booze I hear

what my face looks like after too much screen time

bonus if you don't wear the kind of pants that collect dog hair!

I would try it! Also, maybe the secret is to make it an orange mocha.

I kind of associate hot chocolate with kids and winter, so maybe that's where the reaction came from? That said, I would and have quite happily drunk hot chocolate in public as an adult, regardless of season.

If you're really worried that someone will look down on you and you don't like coffee, maybe order a tea or a refresher. Chai lattes and matcha lattes also don't have coffee. Or just get food and a water.

As for your title question, It has literally never occurred to me to think anything about someone not drinking coffee or expressing a dislike for coffee.

Hi! Thank you so much. If you don't mind, do you have any recommendations for someone setting up Bootstrap as a total beginner with no dev/design experience? I looked at a couple webpages about how to add Bootstrap to a WordPress theme, but most of the methods look like they're way above my technical skill level. And I can't find any Bootstrap-using WordPress themes that are available without a business plan (it looks like there used to be a few but they're not around anymore and/or got moved to business only.)

Would one of these plugins work for me, do you think? https://wordpress.com/... https://wordpress.com/plugins/wp-bootstrap-blocks/

Divi seems nice, but it's too expensive for what I'm looking for. I think my former employer was using that with their WordPress site, which I added blog posts to a couple times (this was several years ago). But it looks I'd need to upgrade to a WordPress business plan and THEN pay $89/year on top of that if I wanted to use WordPress + Divi myself.

Mostly just that I registered my domain through there. (It's one I bought in the past but allowed to lapse, and then I was pleasantly surprised to find it was still available so I bought it again... in retrospect, I probably should have waited to play around with current-day WordPress some more before buying through there.) But I can still move my site with its domain name off WordPress, right?

Lots of smart people work at Google just about every company. They are not included in senior management.

Yeah, it's an Intel Mac. Intel Core i5, which appears to be in that x86-64 range if I'm understanding correctly.

I think I'd prefer stability over rolling release. One of the things I've really appreciated about Apple's stuff is not having to deal with zillions of updates, like I did with my last PC. I'm not sure what you consider to be tinkering "a bit" with a computer, but I haven't had to do that in a long time, and I suspect I'll be happiest keeping that to a minimum (at least for now). So based on this, I'll look at Fedora and Mint.

Thank you for all of this info!