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Re:Twitter user hacks 50k printers to tell people to subscri... by riffraff on Saturday December 01, 2018 @08:42AM (#18576733)
My mother objected to me spending too much time reading and not enough outside.

I imagine there were people in the stone age that objected to people wasting too much time near the fire and not enough fighting with sabertooth tigers.

Re:Twitter user hacks 50k printers to tell people to subscri... by heronymus on Saturday December 01, 2018 @08:58AM (#18576779)
Exactly that! When I was living on the street, we used to call the fire "stoneage-tv". Because the human brains have such a long history of staring "into" the fire, I have the mild suspicion, that reading on e-ink displays without a backlight might make it less likely to get lost in thoughts, than when staring on a "glowing" screen. Unfortunately the only competetive screens are still rather expensive (paperlike)..

..damn, I got lost in offtopic thoughts again! ; )

Re:Twitter user hacks 50k printers to tell people to subscri... by wpietri on Saturday December 01, 2018 @09:45AM (#18576966)
It's an interesting thought! If you had a Twitter account in your bio, I would have followed it.
Re:Twitter user hacks 50k printers to tell people to subscri... by criddell on Saturday December 01, 2018 @09:58AM (#18577023)
I don't think a parent encouraging their kid to have a little balance in their life is necessarily a bad thing.