Sometimes you've been doing things a certain way for literal decades and all it takes an offhand comment to change your thinking.

In this case it's not even so spectacularly novel, just (I think even 2 separate) people stating they'd want to run their own mail server just for receiving important (e.g. 2FA) mails, not for sending or normal conversation. This was in the context of #ryoms - so everything else aside, just getting into discussions about some piece of tech (a type/role, not a specific software) can be useful.

Why do I get the urge to make a game every couple of years when I hate making games?

TFW you want to start some application you've only recently introduced in your toolkit, haven't used in a couple weeks, and can't remember the name of to launch it.

Clicking through the start menu like a caveman.

Stumbled over lingva.ml - tried it out on a random paragraph EN -> DE and it already failed, while Google Translate was better.

Got sick and rewatched a couple Marvel movies last night, after not being in the mood for them for a couple of years (Endgame in 2019, then Multiverse of Madness in 2022 or so). They're certainly not deeply intellectual but I've still laughed my ass off at Thor: Ragnarok.