I guess this also must be an additional layer of hellfire for dyslexics…

Do you not tab-complete your commands?

Sure I do (although nowadays Strg-r does most of the heavy lifting for me), but as a decent touch-typist I am often faster directly typing short commands, like passwor… damn, I mean: passwd ;-)

But the only command that I have to look up every damn time, although it has no abbreviation at all, is useradd.
Oh no, wait, I mean adduser!
… No, wait again… aah…

Now this looks like an interesting read. Thanks!

On a side note:
I hate it that the password-change command is minimally abbreviated to “passwd”.
Come on, making it much more complicated to remember and saving just two freakin letters??

l think you are right… Damn fisheye effect!

Although, judging from the picture, they seem to be NOT at a 90° angle.
Would personally classify this as “mildly infuriating” ;-)

Basically all the Lego games (although 13y olds might already find them too child-like, depends…).
They all have split screen, so are suitable for couch (or desk) coop.
Also the slightly older ones are quite inexpensive when buying them during sales (a few €).

Special recommendation: Lego City Undercover.

Another fun couch-coop-capable game would be SuperTux, a Super-Mario-Cart like game.
This one is OSS and therefore completely free!

I am pretty sure it is normal cat behaviour. Basically all cats that I have met or owned (with the exception of some very relaxed Persians) randomly behaved that way. Some more, some less.
Eyes go suddenly wide with hyperfocus, tail starts wiggling and you now have 2 seconds left to react to the sudden change of mood… Or play along for some serious pretend-fighting :-)

I am pretty sure I remember this exact video from pre-AI-video-days (which is not that long ago…)
So this would be real.

It’s missing the part where they suddenly change mind, hiss at you and smack you.
At least our cat is that way. Loving it nonetheless. Stockholm Syndrome or so l guess…🤷‍♂️

Also I have the impression that lifetime of products has increased again over the past decade or so.
Still rocking my Sony ebook reader from 2011 and a Samsung Galaxy S5 as backup and Whatsapp handy. Both are using Micro USB, so I have a small cable with me anyways.

Well, my KDE-based distro on my 10-year-old cheapo (350€) laptop feels snappier than Win11 on my brand new 1500€ work-laptop.
Admittedly, there are some company specific things like security scanner apps (and the mandatory MS-Office behemoth…) that are not present on the Linux-machine, but it is still a 20-core/64GByte high end machine behaving more sluggish than a 2-core/8GByte totally outdated potato…
So, I am not really surprised about OP’s snappiness observation.

I’m using openrouter.ai which is a service that allows the use of a wide range of models and you can easily switch between them on the fly.

Besides the major players I can also use cloud hosted instances of open models. These are often incredibly cheap and and you can select the ones that don’t use your data for training.

Typical use cases include language learning and copilot stuff for programming.