Took the dogs to the vet the other day to get their shots, and the friggin rabies tags were Texas-shaped. Ugly!

I’m sure the page had lots of them once, but they all broke down or rusted away long ago, heh.

I guess it is the year of the Linux desktop for at least some people.

I’ve used Linux desktop in various forms for just over two decades, this has to be the fourth time it felt like Linux was having its chance to seize marketshare. Each time it ends up not being the mass adoption that people hope for but it feels like the community grows each time so I think it is neat nonetheless.

I regularly take a busy road with a two-lane roundabout marked this way and you can be sure that people will ignore these lane markers. I’m honestly surprised I haven’t seen a fender bender there before.

This is a fair point, I was being a bit facetious, but I’m sure there are plenty of teams both totally in person and totally remote using it. It is just bad optics I think. Like if Teams isn’t useful enough for them that they have to be in person despite having an ostensibly full-featured videoconferencing and calendar coordination and chat, the hell good is it for my organization?

Makes me laugh additionally because the modern conception of “dogfooding” in tech was popularized by Microsoft itself back in the 1990s. This is the opposite of dogfooding and really is a big condemnation of Teams as a software solution for connected work, at least on paper.

A rightwing adaptation of A Modest Proposal for the Trump era might replace the Irish babies with illegal immigrants (think Alligator Alcatraz meets Soylent Green). The one snag might be that it would have to be Certified Fetus-Free, to placate the pro-life crowd.