@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

the 't' key on my Macbook keyboard is pretty much dead. I can only get by by keeping a t on copy to paste as I go. I've replaced the whole keycap assembly. My next step is gonna be taking a can of compressed air to it in case some piece of debris is wedged under the contact since eeeeevery so often I get use out of it again (usually just for a few minutes).

But the machine is two years out of warranty and I know getting it fixed through Apple would be $700 and upward of 2 months shipped out. At this rate, I guess my only option is just buying a good portable bluetooth keyboard?

It sucks since this machine is otherwise in amazing shape still.

Just get a ThinkPad and install any Linux distribution on it. :^)

@ashen-shugar said in Internet Attacks? Why?:

Kids are raised believing they are entitled to whatever they want, and what they can't get, others shouldn't be able to have either.

To be fair, though, people have been blaming the youth for millennia now, literally:

@Aristophanes said in The Clouds, 419 B.C.E.

The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

(This is a paraphrase that often gets misattributed to Socrates)

@ashen-shugar said in Internet Attacks? Why?:

This is why people feel entitled to things that they have never earned and likely won't ever earn.

I mean, that's the essence of Marxist/socialist/etc thought. While I agree that slave morality is a huge issue that the West has succumbed to, I think blaming the youth is misguided and inaccurate.