Right on! Great gift.
Skooshjones
joined 1 year ago
I've heard so many people say this. You're probably the 6th or 7th person in the last few years that I've heard say it's amazing. I really should look into it, no pun intended haha.
I hate simping for the government, but damn if TSA pre-check ain't amazing. I can't fly without it now, makes everything so much less stressful.
I breeze past the 20-30 minute regular security line and walk right up to the pre-check. I haven't had to wait more than 5-7 minutes at most, even at huge busy airports like O'Hare or SeaTac.
Oh dang, do you just download and import into OSMand?
Vivo brand monitor arms, the simple pole clamp ones. 40 bucks give or take, I've had them for 6+ years and they should last for another 10+ I would think, awesome value.
Sennheiser Momentum 3 wired headphones. Used and abused, replaced the cord and ear cups after about 3-4 years for 35 bucks total and they work as well now as they did brand new. Sound is great, they are comfy too.
Sony A6000 camera. Works great, awesome pictures.
IFixit multi-bit screwdriver set with the hard case. Had it for around a decade so far. Nothing broken, nothing worn out. Use it all the time on computers, furniture, electronics, etc. Plan on having it for another 10 years easily.
Steam Deck. Best general purpose gaming handheld out there. Moddable, repairable, high quality, super fun, runs everything I want.
Magic Earth. I've tried every other major OSM google maps alternative and none have been as good as Magic Earth.
Osmand, Maps.me, Organic maps, and one other I can't remember now, used them all. I still use Osmand because I'm trying to support the project, but Magic Earth by far has the best address searching, best UI, best directions, and limited but existing live traffic data to help you avoid really bad backups.
Now I'm in the USA, and some folks say some of these apps work better in Europe, that's fair, but that's still my point, Magic Earth. Not FOSS, but privacy respecting and uses OSM data. If you wanna break away from Google but aren't willing to deal with a bunch of jank, Magic Earth is your friend.
So is a coffee mug.
Be careful, your child may start to take extremist actions with their fellow lefties such as:
- Organizing or joining a union.
- Voting for increased taxes on the ultra-wealthy.
- Marching to protest police militarization and restrictions on women's rights.
- Pushing for better pay, hours, and benefits in their workplace.
You've taken your first step into a larger world, welcome! (Technically a smaller world but bigger in spirit, ya know?)
In college, I was in a geology class and randomly in the middle of a class session, one of the students decided to stand up and start yelling at the professor about creationism and how the earth is only a few thousand years old, all that crap.
You could tell that he thought this was his big moment of "fighting for his faith" and expected some dramatic showdown with the professor in front of the class because he kept glancing around at the students expectantly as he ranted.
Instead, the professor just quietly said something like, "well, I'm not telling you what to believe, I'm just teaching what I know from my profession." The student said some final snarky line, I can't remember what exactly, then sat down again and after a few seconds of awkward silence, the professor just started again where he left off lol.
It was super cringe.
Nice!