Klara in the hidden land

The third of Helene Wecker's Golem-and-Jinni books is coming out in a few weeks, and I only found out by accident?? https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-gates-of-midnight-helene-wecker?variant=44717711753250

I swear, if you don't follow an author or their friends on social media you get like no advance warning about forthcoming books. I guess this is perhaps related to various book review columns getting constantly cut?

Anyway, the first book of the series is my default book recommendation if I don't know anything about you, so I'm very excited to get a third!

Someone has made a 3D-printable bird feeder designed to look like a Flock camera: https://www.printables.com/model/1804910-flock-camera-with-chamber-squirrel-and-bird-feeder

Because birds are clever when it comes to learning what to peck at to maybe get some food.

Lawrence: https://tlcks.org/

Kansas City: https://www.ourspotkc.org/

Wichita: https://www.thecenterofwichita.org/

On my work laptop (PopOS-aka-Ubuntu, previous LTS, old Gnome-based Cosmic) the F1-12 keys have their tradition effect; holding down Fn triggers the media key meaning.

On my personal laptop (MX-aka-Debian, latest stable, XFCE), F1-12 act as media keys by default, while Fn bring back their traditional meaning.

This is terrible for my muscle memory! But I can't find settings for this on either. I just want it consistent; I don't care which way. Any idea where I should look?

Someone I know, an obligate Mac user without much money, has an ancient and dying laptop. They'd been thinking maybe a refurbished 13" M2 MacBook Pro or Air as a replacement, given the M-series' reputation for long lifetimes, but are now tempted by this "Neo".

What should I advise here? One might hope that a newer machine would last longer, but is the "Neo" less built-to-last or otherwise bad? And there's the question of locking them into the reviled latest MacOS.

I've heard a lot about bullshit BMI requirements for gender affirming surgeries, but today I ran into a thread where someone linked to this list of surgeons by BMI cutoff (if any): https://www.transhealthcare.org/resources/rethinking-bmi-requirements-for-gender-affirming-surgery/#surgeon-bmi-tracker

I haven't used this list myself, so I don't know how often it's updated, and it does look pretty US-based (though not exclusively). But it feels like a good resource to share? (Honestly I'm surprised I hadn't seen it passed around before.)