They often suffer silently.

They are also more common than you think, especially today. I should know, because I was one, back in the 80ies and early 90ies when the term actually carried some meaning, unlike today where rampant femnoise and misandry have perverted the term beyond recognition. I'll just copy-paste my standard PSA on the topic here to offer some more broader less contemporary-dimwitt-mainstream-media-bullshit perspective. You might find this helpful.

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PSA: Incel, definition

Incel (involuntary celebate) is a gender neutral term. Coined by an incel woman(!). The largest group of Incels handicapped and/or disfigured people, followed by people with non-hetero-normal sexual orientation, then followed by heterosexual men, the vast overwhelming majority of which aren't misogynists but timid, shy, intimidated by women and/or the mating game and - often as a result - depressed.

To emphasize: Noisemakers on the internet aren't representative of Incels, despite what the misinformed public or some dimwitts on reddit think about the term.

Please stop perpetuating this ill-informed misrepresentation of Incels at large.

Thank you.

Brother seems a good bet. I got one similar (same model?) to the current Brother HL-L2400DWE.
And stock up on toner cartridges, so you're still good if they discontinue the model.

More or less.

I'm your Type A 80ies computer-kid and switching my career to becoming a full-time web-developer in 2000 was one of the best decisions I ever made. The last 25 years were awesome, I had a great time and made made decent money, even if I didn't get rich.

However, I see the writing on the wall. The bots are here and they're taking over and social media IMHO has always been a total PoS and it ain't getting better. Slashdot is the only thing that comes close to that for me and I've been here for 25 years which is quite a run. I'll stay around, but that's only a small part of my day.

I'm glad I have all the skills I could ever ask for in handling computers and digital devices and I'm also glad I basically can do _everything_ I would ever want to do with a computer myself and on a professional level. Designing, programing, video-editing, sound-editing, 3D, DTP, print, typography, etc. all with todays offerings of FOSS. But I also see that there is less and less need for my services in the real world, at an increasing rate and of the new stuff, from social media and online ads onward right up to todays generative and conversational AI there is nothing really there that interests me where I see a full-on day job coming out of it. It's all more of an all-out replacement of my kind.

On top of that I see the "loneliness epidemic" running rampant outside of my nerdy peer group and the real world increasingly becoming somewhat of an exception for a growing number of people.

As far as I can see it is due time for me to focus more and more on non-digital things. The last few years my non-fiction reading has moved from IT stuff to social skills and modern psychology (authentic relating, radical honesty, attachment style theory, mindfulness, etc.) and my pastime activities are all IRL (paragliding, kite-surfing, traveling, social dancing, meeting with non-IT peope such as motorbike clubs and boardgamers, etc.).

The prospect of more and more AI taking over as partners also makes hanging out online way less attractive IMHO. I will still be running my blogs and websites and helping people with digital stuff, but the party clearly is with real face-to-face human interaction now, the IT stuff has taken the place of little more than a sophisticated cultural technique and stopped being a day-job for me.

While I did get lucky and scored a good job as a sole IT expert and senior developer in a company of 70+ legal experts and lawyers, I do expect my job to go extinct in the foreseeable future and really don't see myself sitting at a desk typing and clicking for money. Those times have passed and I'm likely better off being a barista, dancing coach or travel guide in the future.

It is my impression that quite a few of my fellow IT experts see things more or less the same way.

For all my paper notebook needs I'm more than covered by Leuchtturm and Muji.
Leuchtturm for the german premium quality spin on the Moleskine-type of notebook. Notebooks don't get any better than Leuchtturm IMHO. Once you've gone from Moleskine to Leuchtturm you don't go back.

For more affordable options I use Muji as my go-to brand.

Best of all: Both brands are also prefectly city-snob/hippster compliant and go perfectly well with Freitag or Crumpler messenger bags, lumberjack shirts and the smug 'I don't give a f*ck' attitude if that happens to be a requirement. And Leuchtturm will make you officially and ISO-certified more hippster than any Moleskine person present. 8-)

The OceanGate disaster was a long time coming and the string of ignorant, stupid, neglectful and flat-out malicious decisions that lead there is a staggering and breathtaking example of dumbass dimwitts with way to powerful tools for their own (and others) good screwing up epic-style. And dying and taking others with them in the process.

The most absurd thing about this all is that mini-subs going to such depths is basically a solved problem a few times over. Even James Cameron who isn't even a sub engineer but has solid experience with this type of exploration stunt pitched in and noted that it might be a really dumb and dangerous idea to use composites for this sort of thing. As did many engineers and experts in the field. And just about any 10th-grader with some cursory interest in engineering could've told them too. Camerons bubble that he took down to the bottom of the mariana trench was thick solid acrylic glass, custom manufactured to handle the crushing pressure. Given, that depth was a completely different ballgame, but humanity has a solid fleet of subs that can go 4000m deep and building on that sort of know-how for a safe and solid tourist sub with room for rich people wanting some excitement would've been completely doable. And reasonably safe too.

This disaster was totally preventable. What a waste and what a shame.

... devops and eventually pay the price.

You'd think the l33t coders at Google would have this little basic truth deeply engrained in their genes. Humans doing human stuff I guess.
At least they did make a decent rollback happen.

... And wuttthefuk is there to research? This "phenomenon" has been common knowledge for decades, since the 90ies for sure, for anyone dealing with email spam. The mx admins even have a technical term for it: backscatter.

Isn't it cute when the kids today "discover" the internet? Like calling 2015 "the early days of the web" (no joke). LOL.

Firing the entire board of vaccine science immunologists, and replacing them with pre-science miasma theory antivax stooges, for example.

Is Trump still going forward with Musk's recommendation to deorbit the ISS in 2027?

SpaceX was awarded a $843 million contract to deorbit the ISS back in 2024 (Biden was president) in the year 2030.

https://www.google.com/search?...

Was there an update to this plan that I didn't hear about?

... which just ditched MS for software in public service. The northerns are the most reasonable when it comes to public service IT. (For context: I live in Germany and they're both to the north :-) )

Good point. I'd never thought of it that way.

The problem you miss is that some of us would rather not even pay for the addled video. Prime didn't change its fee when they added video, so give me a video-free alternative at a lower price. I resent paying for something I don't use.

I wonder if anyone has ever done studies of ad effectiveness vs frequency. If they had half the ads which were twice as effective, they could charge twice as much and have the same revenue and happier customers. There must be some sort of Laffer curve. No ads == no revenue but more watchers. 100% ads == no watchers and no revenue. Where is the sweet spot? Some old TV shows were 55 minutes long with 5 minutes of ads, then they switched to 50 minutes and 10 minutes, so they have to chop out 5 minutes to syndicate them.

I bet the broadcasters have done the studies, and 10 minutes must produce more revenue, but I'd really like to see those studies.

When they first bundled video with Prime, I figured it wouldn't be too long before it went south. It did. Series would include the first season only, they dropped a few I was in the middle of watching, they shifted some shows to Britbox and others which had been included.

Then they announced the ads, and I stopped watching. You're going to charge me for something I didn't ask for and can't get a reduction for not using, AND you're going to interrupt it with ads? No thanks. Stopped watching. Well, I was probably watching only one or two shows a week.

But it still annoys me that I'm paying for something I don't want which is supported by ads. I've been watching how much free shipping I get and comparing to Walmart and others. It's close enough that one more screwup and I might dump Prime.

Not next generation. And people did notice.