I’ve been telling people this for years: Post-secondary educational institutions are no longer about education; they’re a business. They do everything they can to maximize profits, and don’t really care about the quality of education.

Beautiful! Great job

A lot of things from a particular family member

This month: His buddy who’s a “mechanic” touched our car and did a bunch of “extra work” on it for a “great price”. Got it back and it sounded like they emptied the transmission fluid in the CVT. I got “it must be the drive shaft” and “don’t go down rabbit holes on the internet”

It was missing transmission fluid

Fellow homebox user here. As an aside: I’ve got a storage room with a bunch of shelves and bins. For each bin, I’ve suck labels on them (using a label maker or sharpie + painters tape), and an NFC tag. Each box in Homebox has its own location, and each NFC tag is a direct link to its instance in Homebox.

It’s much easier to categorize larger quantities of things that aren’t as valuable as vintage media. Ie. hygiene products, off-season clothing, etc…

Bookmarked this to try this setup next weekend!

I don’t think this is homebrews fault? It looks like apps need to be signed to run on apple silicone.

This is equivalent to asking the road construction workers and engineers to be held accountable for those that break the speed limit

People were calling it from day 1. I’m surprised it took this long for the FBI to come out with a statement… although…

This is the correct answer

An unfortunate series of events

Soldier was firing blanks towards the officer, and the officer probably panicked and fired back; thinking they were being shot at.

For those unaware: blank rounds / blanks is a special type of ammunition you can use in a real firearm that doesn’t have a projectile (ie the bullet). Military and police use blanks to simulate real ammo being fired out of the gun so they get used to the bang, mechanics of the firearm, having to reload, fixing jams, etc.

Other than the actual bullet, there are only a few noticeable differences between real ammo and blanks:

• The firearm has to be modified to be able to use the blanks. Usually they put a bright yellow plug at the end of the barrel. It helps the firearm function properly, and will catch a bullet in case live ammunition is used
• The bang is a bit louder.

From the officers perspective: they got calls saying there was a shooter. They arrive on scene, and someone starts shooting at them. I’d shit my pants too and shoot back

I’m in the apple ecosystem so I’ve got AirTags.

I use them for:

• Vehicles - so I can find it if I go to a big venue / in case it gets stolen
• Pets - we recently had a cat in our family run away. Turns out they do that if they know they’re going to pass away soon, so we don’t really have closure / can give them a proper burial
• Checked luggage while travelling - If it gets lost, we can tell the airline which airport it’s at to help them find it

Clearly it’s a screenshot of a blurry photo

This was my rig until I got a cross-body bag. Now everything goes into the bag, except my phone. That way I don’t need to carry everything around while I’m at home; and I don’t need to keep loading / unloading my pockets at night or going out

Flaky Layers 🫦

I’d talk to the parents first and let them know what their kid did and how your kid has expressed that they’re not interested in their kid in that way.

Then I’d probably sit down with both kids and explain to them that while the gesture is very nice, from your perspective and in your culture, this level of gift is seen as a dowry. Usually dowry’s aren’t given unless both parties are for sure interested in each other romantically.

Now as a teenager, hormones are running wild, and so a friend may come off as a lover. I’d say you’re stepping in and declining the offer to prevent a friendship being ruined. I personally was in the exact same situation, decided to stay friends, and they’re one of my best friends to this day

No, I don’t think so?

I fully flipped over every device in my house off windows about a week or two ago, and so far so good!

I’ve been daily driving linux on my personal laptop since 2009 (16 years now!?) for school / work / personal work-esque stuff, and my work laptop is now OSX. A few weeks ago I flipped my gaming machine from windows to popOS and been quite pleasantly surprised at how well gaming on Linux is these days. So much so, I convinced my wife to let me flip her gaming machine to Linux as well.

The only hiccup I’ve recently had was having to deal with windows-only, non-steam software. Ie. insta360. Luckily, there are compatibility layers / emulators I can use to be able to run it. It’s slow, but good enough.

At this point, there’s no good reason for me to go back to Windows or anything Microsoft. It’s even become a red flag when I hear a business is using Microsoft’s products. I want to hope Microsoft gets a wake up call at some point soon and turns the ship around, but I think they’ve got too many big-company deals to have to worry about their consumer products being shite.

I will put money down that it will not. A game that’s in development for this long will not live up to any level of expectations

I’d like to point out that one 747 is ~$400 mill… [source]