My knee-jerk reaction would be “if you’re happy”, but I had an epiphany a while back:
I was chitchatting with a coworker over way too many beers and he asked me something along the lines of “were you happy growing up (insert background here)”, and after weighing my words I responded that “I would’ve been, except I’m generally not near happy as a baseline”.

So am I satisfied with my life? Yes.
Do I have worries? Yes, like anyone else on this planet. Mine are pretty minor and not debilitating.
Do I consider myself happy now? See above.

But yet, I’d conclude that I’m living a good life, even if I’m generally a grumpy guy.

You might want to edit that post title, lest you attract “yes”-replies from people who don’t bother reading the post body.

Yes. With a screwdriver.

Without cheating improvising? Nope.

I’m in a couple of community-specific mod chats on matrix. Also, the matrix room for NonCredibleDefense is fairly active.

I’ve been meaning to set up a matrix chat for CasualConversation, I just haven’t gotten around to it yet.

I’m not a corporate penguin, but I’m in a position where I often find myself in meetings with them. While there’s a lot of corporate jargon, such as “Let’s circle back on that”, and other common phrases, I am so happy that my industry doesn’t have a “user experience” to “monetize”.

We are the survey equivalent of hotdog vendors: you pay us, we do geophysical surveys for you. Sure, there’s an armada of geophysicists that work oit the specifications regarding the type of condiments and hotdog buns, and the hotdog is produced on a ship, but at the end of the day, I like how little fluff there is.

I travel a lot, so I have a bunch of stuff downloaded onto my laptop. And a lot of that stuff I have mirrored onto my phone. And on top of that I have additional stuff loaded onto a tiny USB C drive that I can plug into both for when I want to store stuff for later loading onto my phone.

I often find myself watching an ep on my phone in an airport lounge, and doing the next ep on my laptop on the plane.

Generally, I’m not that picky in terms of screen size, I usually go for the biggest screen conveniently available. And my laptop has the additional benefit of allowing me to use my Roland headset.

EDIT: Splelign is hrad.

Considering how the US is doing these days, I don’t entirely disagree with you.

More than acceptable. To put it this way: Rhinos are objectively cool; You know what would make them cooler? Bigger and more pointy bits.

The 4400

I used to do a lot of parse-compile-report scripting, and I’m very curious about how the data is formatted in the pdf. Would you be willing to share it?

Other than that, fiverr or an LLM is perhaps your best bet.

Glay - Kanojo

I have no idea where I first got that song, but I’ve had it as an mp3 for at least 20 years at this point.

A friend of mine wrote some software and ended up using one of those as a foot mouse.

I’ll probably regret asking this but… cumbox?

Hi, Karim!

I cannot believe nobody else is asking this question, so here it goes:

What is your favorite dinosaur? 🦕

Makes sense. I have a full set of torx, hex, Philips and flathead keyrings with me, because whatever server rack I have been summoned to molest - You can bet that it’s a random mix of head types.

I happen to have a handheld maritime emergency radio around, mostly because I got my hands on it for free* a few years back. It could serve the same function, provided someone else is using the same frequencies. I live in a coastal environment, so there’s always someone around that are legally required to listen on Ch16.

*: I used to work with maritime electronics, and one day we had a recall order from one of our suppliers. Turned out one batch of this one particular handheld radio had a potential minor problem with the squelch, so they were no longer IMO approved for emergency use. We were to throw them away and a refund would be issued. I took one home and just paid for a battery and charger. It’s now sitting in my kitchen.

I might as well go first:

Scalpels!

They have a myriad of uses. And since they’re sterile, they can be used for cooking. I use them for slicing the skin on pork bellys for that nicely diced crackling - It’s almost like they were made for cutting skin, or something. Besides that, they’re excellent for cleaning up 3d prints. Just remember that they’re supposed to be single use. While your 3d print doesn’t care, your food definitely does care about how much you use the same one.

I always make sure I have a 10 pack in my kitchen.

I tried, but I gave up. I find that mobile screens (at least the ones I’ve used) are the wrong dimensions for books. Either the linebreaks are way off, or I have to use zoom levels that are cumbersome.

Plus sometimes I like to jump back and forth, and that’s much faster and easier when you can use physical bookmarks.

I find that good Ole books are the superior format. The only thing missing is the ability to ctrl+f