Personally, I don't mind settings being in the bottom bar. But at the same time, I think what you have in mind would be fine too. I do like the idea of bookmarks in the bottom bar, as honestly, this wasn't something I was aware existed until I read your post and found bookmarks in the profile menu. Of course, it seems obvious now with the common bookmark button next to the upvote/downvote... I noticed I had some items bookmarked, likely accidental presses as a result the button's proximity to the up/downvote.

I came from eternity, which had that the profile and settings in the left bar, which I also thought was fine.

The one thing I do find inconsistent with the UI is how the app treats Subscribed, All, and Local versus individual communities. Clicking on Subscribed, All, or Local gives you the default UI with the navigation bar at the bottom, and then you can swipe to quickly go to another. However, clicking on a community in the left bar does not give you the bottom navigation bar and while you can click on another community to go to it, you cannot click on Subscribed, Local, or All to go to those aggregate feeds. You instead have to click the back button in the upper left on each individual community you navigated to.

As someone that grades undergraduates, I'm happy that they not use the letter "x" to imply multiplication.

I fired up fallout 1 after watching it.

A long time ago most airlines checked at least one bag free. I used to always do this and as op suggests, not stand in line. It was great not having to take a bag through security and haul it around through airports and connecting flights, and avoid the stress of if the overhead space would run out.

But airlines have done everything in their power to make boarding and the whole flying process miserable in attempt to suck every dollar they can from you for their upgrades and priority boarding.

I do often take advantage of the airlines offer to "we expect a very full flight, overhead space is limited, and will check your bag for free to your final destination"

Have an amd card. Have never done any special steps to update my graphics card, as amd drivers are just built into the kernel. I used to have a nvidia card and it was like 2 or 3 commands to enable proprietary drivers and was then always notified and updated with my usual software package upgrades.

Granted i haven't run windows for over 15 years but I remember having to go to nvidia's website and manually download and install new nvidia drivers to update. Is this still true? If so, this is simply objectively worse.

I'll agree with a decent amount of gaming. Unless it's steam, getting wine set up, even with lutris, can be a hassle.

I remember going on a serious old jazz kick and downloaded so much ella fitzgerald and other jazz after playing (replaying?) some of the fallout games.

Sway is basically the wayland version of i3. I've switched to wayland on my new laptop and learning sway after using i3 for years has been relatively easy.

You're counting calories which is great. But don't worry about the number on the scale. If you have little muscle and are not super fat (23% isn't that fat) you will gain weight if you start building muscle.

My biggest suggestion would be to follow the starting strength workout 3 days a week. As a beginner, you're doing a bunch of worthless exercises. Stick with the barbell essentials, and pullups: deadlift, squat, bench, overhead press, bent over row, and pullups. These use lots of muscles and will best promote muscle growth. Go heavy, you should be really struggling to get that last rep. If you're not sore as hell after the first few workouts, you aren't lifting heavy enough. If you get all the reps you wanted to do, add 5 pounds the next time you do that exercise.

Stay away from the machines until you want to focus on really specific muscles.

Especially do deadlifts, it works a ton of muscles and nothing builds confidence like lifting a bunch of weight off the ground.

Watch youtube videos for form advice. Do a few warm up reps with really light weight, such as just the bar, to practice form. Ask others at the gym for form advice. Most lifters are super friendly.

As you get stronger, you can work in other things like biceps, triceps, dead hangs, etc.

Board games at a local game store. Many will have a board game night.

I teach an electronics class and a barebones version of this is one of the early logic gate labs: an SR latch built using NAND gates. It can set and reset a bit!

Yep. I have three brothers. My dad used ranked choice voting for us when we were kids all the time on "flavors" of things we needed to buy: ice cream, candy, toothpaste, etc. We understood it with no issues.

it was amusing seeing the look on a friend's face when my dad would barge into the room with 5 different toothpastes and ask, "which of these do you like the best?" Followed shortly by "which of these do you like 2nd best?"

I did a temporary research position at New College about a decade ago. It was such an awesome little University with great faculty and a great student body. The recent developments due to this clown saddens me so much.