OP did say that it was inside his garage. I mean, in all honesty, most buildings are not built to be Fort Knox. If someone is intent on burglarizing them, they’re probably going to get in.

They’re like birds, right? Don’t they have a cloaca instead?

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Apparently yes, though this author couldn’t resist “butthole”…

https://www.livescience.com/first-dinosaur-butthole-found.html

1st preserved dinosaur butthole is ‘perfect’ and ‘unique,’ paleontologist says

This was a multipurpose hole.

The first dinosaur butthole ever discovered is shedding light where the sun don’t shine. The discovery reveals how dinosaurs used this multipurpose opening — scientifically known as a cloacal vent — for pooping, peeing, breeding and egg laying.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingo_(folk_song)

Early versions of “Bingo” were also noted as adult drinking songs, as in a version where individual singers were expected to sing a letter from the spelling of the name, and were to take a drink if they failed to do so correctly.[9]

TIL.

On one hand, I think that it’s fair to point out, and an interesting point.

But…on the other hand, I also think that generally when people say “we did X”, they’re often including people who aren’t their direct ancestors. And the degree to which they do that is context-dependent. Though they probably aren’t going back anything like 20 million years, either, in any kind of common context.

What’s our closest living relative?

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Looks like chimpanzees and bonobos, and our last common ancestor was maybe 5–13 million years back.

I guess we would include 'em in “we” if someone was saying “we left the oceans”. But they aren’t gonna make the in-group for “we won that sports game last night”.

That’s a job, but it’d be nice to not have a single point of failure. Multiple safeguards reduces the chance of overall failure.

I have not seen that particular cartoon.

However, a common criticism is that there are only a handful of Garfield cartoon “templates” with some bits swapped out, and I have seen plenty of Garfield cartoons in approximately this format: three panels, Garfield is bored, John is emotional, Garfield is bored.

goes back to look at the first year of Garfield

Okay, apparently it predates Garfield, as there was a predecessor strip, Jon:

https://garfield.fandom.com/wiki/Jon,_1976_comic_strips

Jon comic #7, February 19, 1976:

EDIT: Jon #1 looked familiar. It looks like a lot of the first year of Garfield was recycled Jon cartoons too. For example, here’s Jon #1:

And here’s Garfield #1:

What are they paid outside the US?

I mean, that’s going to depend radically on the country. Eritrea and France are not going to look very similar.

I don’t use Chrome, but a favorite Firefox extension is Dark Reader (dynamically makes webpages that lack dark mode support dark mode), and it’s available for Chrome. So maybe that.

The keyboard interface sucks

I’m not sure if you’re going to see this if you’re avoiding social media for two months, but…while I don’t personally see much gain from using a phone rather than a PC for Internet access for two months, if it’s enough of a pain and it doesn’t violate whatever rules you’re setting for yourself, you can connect a keyboard. There are a bunch of Bluetooth keyboards aimed at Android devices, some of which fold and are themselves phone-sized for portability.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=folding+keyboard

You can also get USB-C hubs with pass-through charging, stuff like this that will give you some USB-A ports to plug wired keyboards into, if you’re using the phone at a desk.

Android won’t show the on-screen keyboard if you have a connected physical keyboard, so you also get a lot more screen space while doing text entry.

Most if not all UIs for websites are shit in mobile.

Firefox (and probably other browsers, but I use Firefox) can request the desktop version of websites. Tap the menu button in the lower-right, and then choose “Desktop site”.

Now, the desktop site may not work well on a small screen either, but you will have access to it.

cake…because of typos

Aha! AI!

I honestly don’t even think it looks ai, to me, and I may be wrong but it looks like someone painted it on a canvas

Chiseled Etruscan stonework, that’s what it is.

If you go through Unicode, there are a bunch of hyphen-like characters. In many typefaces, some may appear identical.

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EDIT: That’s not an exhaustive list, either. Off-the-cuff, I can also think of the line-drawing characters, which also have a horizontal line.

The marking above the hyphen there is an underscore — it’s telling you that hitting shift-hyphen will give you an underscore.

You may be using software that supports inserting an em-dash when you hit that combination, but I don’t believe that it’s the keyboard layout that dictates that.

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It sounds like Microsoft Word does something similar:

https://www.avantixlearning.ca/microsoft-word/how-to-insert-an-em-dash-or-en-dash-in-a-word-document-4-ways/

Use Ctrl with keyboard shortcuts to insert an em or en dash

To insert an em dash, click where you want to insert the em dash and then press Ctrl + Alt + – (minus sign on the numeric keypad).

To insert an en dash, click where you want to insert the en dash and then press Ctrl + – (minus sign on the numeric keypad).

I was once told “I write like someone who thinks they are good at writing.” That was met with rounds of applause by the people who can’t (or won’t) spell, capitalize, or punctuate anything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome

Tall poppy syndrome is a term that originated in Australia and New Zealand in the 1980s that refers to people with notable public success or achievements that are ostracised by others as a form of egalitarianism.[1][2] Intense scrutiny and criticism of such a person is termed as “cutting down the tall poppy”.[3]

“That one sounds uppity!”

You can write or draw stuff with a fountain pen with an AxiDraw, and that’s an off-the-shelf system. I imagine that it could paint as well.

EDIT: Apparently the Inkscape plugin used to drive it was originally designed to drive a plotter that did watercolor painting.

I use a the Compose key (Compose hyphen hyphen hyphen) or emacs (C-x 8 _ m) on Linux, and on Android, my soft keyboard supports holding hyphen to insert one.

And the Lemmy Web UI converts a triple hyphen to an em-dash.

The Lemmy Web UI converts a double hyphen to an en-dash and a triple to an em-dash when displaying text. However, not all clients do this. I’m viewing this in Eternity, and it leaves the hyphens intact.

This conversion happens when viewing the comment, rather than writing it.

Smartphone cameras are almost certainly the largest source of photography in society today, and those things default to doing all kinds of automatic processing on the images they take.

It does rather make one suspect that a number of people haven’t read a great deal of properly-written English.

If their ToS is unacceptable to you, I guess you could get VoIP service from a SIP provider and just always use VoIP via a VoIP app rather than your phone’s native calling support. Just use your telco for data.

Costs more.

I think that it’d be mostly of interest if you really wanted privacy, since you could run the VoIP to a VPN provider, and then the VoIP provider doesn’t know where you are physically and your telco knows where you are but has no idea what you’re doing (other than talking to your VPN provider).

Plus, while your options are limited as to telcos — there’s a natural monopoly from owning the physical infrastructure for a vell network — you have lots of options for VoIP service providers.

In the US, I believe that there may be some (recently-added) restrictions on SIP SMSing.

EDIT: One other thought. If you and your wife have different phone hardware and especially if your hardware is very old, I believe that there’s hardware support required for WiFi calling support.

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Yeah, sounds like it.

https://www.att.com/features/wifi-calling/

How can I tell if my phone supports WiFi calling?

Most of the Apple and Android smartphones we have sold since 2015 support AT&T Wi-Fi Calling. You’ll still need a smartphone with an eligible rate plan for it to work.

It’s possible that that’s what you’re hitting.