Some people can make a living doing something they enjoy. "Success" is not fame, and vice versa (they are wholly orthogonal to each other), and I remember reading an interview with a member of Canadian group Saga, who in the US had like 1 top 40 hit in the early 80s and a few more minor ones in their home country, but ultimately they sell a few thousand records a year, and tour regularly in two "big" markets for them : Puerto Rico and Germany, and they seem to make roughly a middle class lifestyle doing so.

Beats being an accountant or urologist I suppose.

I suspect there's a similar vibe for cover band folks.

"I wonder why we cant mandate Optical Fibre as standard as well"

Lobbying by big ISPs.

That language feels like it came from a fever dream of Alan Greenspan.

Many are not.

ESRs gravity peaked around 2004.

It did, and that statement is inaccurate only in the fact that it fails to mention that the driver behind the descent was pure self-dealing avarice.

If there is one thing Tufte taught a lot of people, clarity and accuracy are not mutually exclusive.

I've tried so many todo apps and the only thing I've stuck to is Obsidian and a daily morning habit of checking my list (I check it multiple times a day, but I set at least one 'forced' point in the morning to level set.

I also use a notebook that often feeds that obsidian tab because I still often prefer to take notes/diagram by hand. The kinetic action sticks with me better.

I haven't bought a Rotring in decades (and the Rotring rapidographs I do have still hold up), and wouldn't at this stage given the decline in build quality since their buy-up from Newell (although I hear their APAC product is subcontracted to Holbein, which still has a great rep).

"All dogs are completely safe, and only attack when provoked" this is relentlessly vague, and not in line what most animal cognition specialists or vets will tell you.

Pretty sure this post was heavy sarcasm. the poster thinks the exact opposite of what they're saying.