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> de-googling is itself has its costs

It can, but it depends on how "googled" you allowed yourself to become in the first place. For me, that's not much at all. But if you've been all-in (or near it) for years, with tons of docs, your photo archive, etc. all tied to google, then yeah, moving away is gonna be difficult.

> Could be that I liked "All The Pretty Horses" even more than "The Road".

Have you read the others in the Border Trilogy, The Crossing and Cities of the Plain? If you liked Pretty Horses, you'll probably like them, too. Pretty sure I've read all three twice.

> how grim is the the Road?

Not all that grim, at least compared to some of his others. Grimmer than No Country for Old Men, less so than Blood Meridian or Outer Dark. There is at least one very grim scene, though, and maybe some others I'm not thinking of at the moment. Been a pretty long time since I read it.

Grimness aside, I'd rank it simpler, at the level of reading difficulty, than some of his others.

It's a good book but personally, I don't think it's among his best.

Too many people are thinking that "printing" here necessarily involves paper. I almost never print on paper but I "print" a lot of stuff to PDF. A lot of that is just record-keeping but some is for other reasons.

Maybe it's a weird, unusual edge case but maybe not. Lots of people need to keep records of various things for various reasons. In my personal life, I also "print" lots of stuff from various web sites to PDF for record-keeping purposes. This is absolutely routine for me, I do it all the time.

Thankfully, most of the web sites for which I want to do this — banks and other financial institutions, but others also — have easy ways to create printable receipts because they know that people want to do things like this.

And you can disagree, but when I come across some e-commerce site where printing what I want or need to PDF doesn't work because the site just makes a horrible unreadable mess out of it, I think, well here's a set of "web developers" who are just not good at what they do.

(And yes, I fall back to screen shots when I must.)

>I politely disagree. The original intent Tim Berners Lee had [1] was to create a navigable way of finding documents and information. Not printable.

And I politely disagree right back. My particular problem with this has to do with purchasing. When I make a purchase at work, I need something I can attach to a purchase request as a quote. Note that this is often not a formal quote, but rather evidence of what whatever I want to buy will cost.

A simple way to do this is to print a shopping cart to PDF and attach that to the PR. Some web sites do this just fine and others do it horribly. They should do better.

Oh good, can't tell you how concerned I was about this. What a relief!

I don't know whether Teams is worse than Slack. I do know that I loathe Slack, though. Of the software I use almost every day, it is the worst by miles.

The editor is execrable.

Not beating the "Elon is 12" allegations any time soon.

"violating patent law" is not a "crime."

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.

On the contrary, only math is real and everything else is an illusion.

Weird, I thought everyone knew this by now.

"Social media is a big part of people's lives"

Well, there's your problem right there.

"The average person really does not care about any of this, they'll happily write 'seggs' and not think any deeper about why they are writing it."

I'm more online than I should be and don't have the slightest idea what this is supposed to mean. And no, I don't want to, either.