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eating their own dog food, are they?

they’ll have to hire an actual developer to fix it.

and there hasn’t been a pocket veto since gwb.

the cheap flip phones are truly dollar-store build quality and cameras. mine has a crappy radio, it seems, too… nearly always roaming on another carrier’s nearby tower because it can’t pick up the vzn one just a couple miles outside of town.

the ‘rugged’ ones are built better and can take a literal beating and still work, but they cost as much as a recent model 128gb smart phone… and still have squat for storage and lousy cameras.

“Consumers can now choose whether to add Commodore’s custom-designed Hi-Def IEM earphones during checkout, rather than needing to pay for them when they may already own a pair they love. Premium memory will be available as an option, with Callback defaulting to rigorously stress-tested “post-consumer” high-speed memory chips, backed by Commodore’s identical, comprehensive 1-Year warranty.”

so… to lower the retail by $100… earbuds not included, and reclaimed ewaste memory chips (hopefully that does not also include the main storage) now the default configuration.

…meaning you shouldn’t be using any of them now, i guess.

i would trust a notepad file or spreadsheet on my pc over any online service.

$150 thousand is already a little higher than what the inflation calculator site gave me for an adjusted, current value of that original amount.

as far as the shit they added, they can just scoop that up and put it in someone’s big macs. nobody would know the difference anyway.

yup. works very well. been using it whenever an image fails to boot properly on my multiboot usb…

i hate siding with a megacorp like disney, but eric idle says it best (2018 version):
https://youtu.be/9tn1QNxEoF4
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=9tn1QNxEoF4

the bits for the ‘upgrade’ have been flowing-in through regular updates for months, with features left disabled… slowing those updates every single month. the upgrade time was just spread out in installments, instead of being paid all at once.

they were on a street that is also carries state and u.s. highway designation, just past the municipal boundary. small town here, there literally are no ‘subdivisions’ or hoa anywhere around.

just walking a mile down a road i haven’t been down in years, i spotted two of them. there’s been absolutely no local coverage about it… and scanning local municipal and town meeting minutes for the last several years–not one mention of them.

lastpass is already on my ‘stay far away from’ list, and have been on it for years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LastPass#Security_incidents

the national park service used arra funds and actually rebuilt the whole thing during the obama administration. and when they had an algae problem, shortly after it being filled back up… they fixed that for a measly $100 thousand to drain and clean it all, and then increased the ozone used in the filtering system to control the algae.

it should cost less than $150 thousand to completely drain and clean it today. note there’s no “millions” here… not even a single “million”. just one hundred and fifty thousand. anything more than that is taxpayer money being stuffed in to someone’s pocket.

a foreign spy

during my k12, we went from PET to apple II and gs (apple was wizards at selling their junk to schools), and finally getting out from under apple and adding a few 386s at the end.

i know this is a link to that other site, but this old post has a link to the full essay as published in 1980.

https://old.reddit.com/r/asimov/comments/6616rh/a_cult_of_ignorance_by_isaac_asimov_1980_via_pdf/

an image viewer with the feature set and workflow of irfanview on windows.

‘hybrid sleep’ does write the hibernate file before going into ‘sleep mode’. if you have an older system or one that doesn’t use ‘modern standby’ and you have an ssd, you might want to double-check that setting in your power scheme advanced settings.

the culprit is actually probably “fast startup” which writes a hibernate file every shutdown. every “normal” ‘shutdown’… close programs, logoff, hibernate, power off. this feature is unnecessary on systems with ssd but it continues to be enabled by default. it was created in the days of old to make hdd systems appear to boot up faster by not actually starting up windows on every power on.

hibernate isn’t enabled by default.

the other writer of hibernate data, hybrid sleep, doesn’t even exist on a newer system that uses ‘modern standby’… but is enabled by default on desktops that do not.

acrobatics on horseback is most definitely a thing. and it’s absolutely crazy the stunts they can pull off.