“Revelation Space” from Alastair Reynolds: a very solid hard science fiction space opera.

“Neuromancer” from William Gibson: the seminal cyberpunk novel where the sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

“Destination: Void” from Frank Herbert: starts inside a space ship, a bit dark.

I stand-peed all my life until I had to clean my own toilet. After a while I realized that sit-peeing reduced the need for cleaning by a few orders of magnitude.

So maybe, the boomers either never clean their bathrooms or they enjoy it?

We should better start thinking about how to stop it because this stuff is coming and fast.

The one I’m using now is part of a batch of 4 that I found in the trash at my workplace. It’s a big Cherry G-80 which linear, non-clicky black switches.

Its a very simple, old-school “aged” white keyboard, with some marks still from mistreatment, probably when throwing away.

Typing is delicious. The keys offer a satisfying resistance until they bottom out. They register the press before that point though. They never miss, and can be silent or somewhat musical, depending on the fingers attack.

It’s truly a simple pleasure to type on it!

Typing on a mechanical keyboard.

Agree. I like how you call them USAians. They normally think they are the only country in America.

I did this before discovering one could change the CPU’s thermal paste.

Exactly what dubyakay said. Also you don’t have to share anything if you don’t want to. No automatic upload.

I use Nicotine+. It connects to the Soulseek network. I find many audiobooks there. Usually fast downloads. People share directly from their computers.

I‘m in a city in Europe and I don’t own a car. I commute by bike. It’s around 11 km from home and it takes me around 40 minutes.

I don’t care if it rains or snows. I always carry a set of waterproof pants and raincoat in my bike pack; helmet keeps my head mostly dry. At work I have a complete spare set of clothes which I almost never actually use.

In winter it gets to a few degrees Celsius below zero but I never had any problems with temperature. The exercise keeps me warm.

In some rare occasions (this winter for example) it snows a lot and at some point the bike lanes become unusable. Then I have to take the public transport.

My bike was expensive. It has all the bells and whistles: hydraulic disk brakes, lights with dynamo, hub gear, belt drive, luggage rack. You can probably get a cheaper one and you don’t really need all those treats.

But I had very little problems over the years and had do almost zero maintenance. I also always carry a minimal set of tools in a pouch attached to the chassis, in case I have to patch a tyre.

The exercise and freedom of biking makes me arrive to places happy and full of energy. I usually listen to audiobooks, podcasts or music on the way so it’s fun and I usually look forward to it.

I believe they feel they have power and are superior to you because they have more knowledge. And you know how people tend to act in that circumstances.

It‘s for wetting your hand while on the toilet. This enables you to wipe and clean your ass with your wet hand.