Re: It's official: I'm not a hacker.

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (Robert)]

 > From: Brian <http://www.cs..edu/~b>
 > Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 21:03:19 -0700
 >
 > [snip]
 > So I guess I can say I'm a former hacker.

For me, it's a matter of time vs. money.  At the moment, I have more money
than time so it's more worthwhile to get a repairperson to fix the
dishwasher than to spend the time futzing around with [non-computing]
machines, aside from the fact that I hate hardware.  (I also keep paying
for our "home warranty" that we got when we bought the house in 2010,
despite it almost definitely being a rip-off; it is super convenient to
just enter a trouble ticket and then a repairperson gets in contact with
you.  Before we finally replaced it, I filed two trouble tickets for the
dishwasher.  I'm waiting for the fridge to go next...)

 > (Digression:
 > [snip]
 > A couple of XKCDs ago was his proposed roll-up keyboard that had lots of 
 > silly features, but it also had a "serif lock" key instead of shift lock. 
 > I would kill for that!)

I didn't know that you were a serif fan.  The default for most Linux user
interfaces these days is sans serif, and I always go through the trouble of
laboriously changing all the fonts to serif...