every bypass to age-gating at youtube that i’ve used, tried, or looked at no longer works, and hasn’t for awhile.

the walmart store brand sliced bread has been made so cheap now, there’s no ‘substance’. it can’t stand up in a toaster without literally “wilting”. so it will toast crooked and then not pop up because it gets stuck. i have an old toaster, probably from the 1980s. not for ‘bagels’ either, just a normal narrow-slot toaster. it has no safety cut-off on it… i dunno if that’s even a thing… but it will not shut off the heating elements when it gets stuck and can’t “pop up”. the whole thing is a fire hazard.

well, then it would be your borrowing time ran out, perhaps, and the app just said ‘screw you’ instead of offering a check-out renewal

i use an old one (the blue accented one) of those keyboards as my ‘remote control’ when i’m watching on the ‘tv’. works pretty well for that… running a media player and web streaming. i did try doing actual ‘work’ with it once, but i had to connect a different keyboard to do any serious typing.

i used to have a lap desk attached to the top of a beanbag-like pillow. same type of thing my mom and grandma would use to do crafts and stuff while they watched their ‘stories’ (soaps).

… just this week, and it’s only monday!

i’ve had that happen a few times over the years streaming tv or movies. have it stop part-way and not be available to continue.

iirc they edited-in a changed last name only for a couple episodes of season one

Has he even spent a minute on trying to make anything affordable

well, yea. he has, and he is…

the scraps of america, after the collapse, will be ridiculously ‘affordable’ to those that still have the means to buy it all up for pennies on the dollar.

dos ain’t done 'til lotus won’t run.

almost too realistic.

My robot dog after it collapsed steps from my home. The light on its “face” was blinking red, and the lidar sensor on its “nose” was still spinning.

shit. i was just thinking “hmm. it actually feels like autumn outside today”. sorry 'bout that. won’t happen again. but i fear it may be too late to contain the beast.

golden gate, out tomorrow iirc, the first macos that’s apple silicon only, and the last to support intel applications via compatibility layer.

tahoe, the previous version and last to support intel cpu, will get two more years of updates. the last intel cpu mac wasn’t discontinued until 2023.

there is no further upgrade path from apple for anything that cannot run golden gate. it’s e-waste to most, a linux goldmine for a few. just like every pre-8th gen era windows pc, but at least with windows you can trick the current version to run on the relics that don’t ‘officially’ support it.

fake it 'til you makebreak it.

socket 1700 supports both alder lake (12th gen) and raptor lake (13th, refresh 14th gen) intel processors.

12th gen had low-end processors branded ‘pentium’, all three gens had the usual i3/i5/i7 (it was the next gen after this that rebranded intel’s cpu lineup). the 14th gen low-end chip was rebranded without the ‘pentium’ trademark.

the same chipset and firmware quite often supported all three generations of cpu, enabling the easy cpu swap from 14th gen core i7 to 12th gen pentium.

that’s what trixie’s netinst defaults to when i set up new desktops using encrypted lvm… root and swap volumes inside that, unlocking together at boot. my use doesn’t hit swap much, so it’s nbd. i just leave it like it is. only where an installer doesn’t support encrypted swap partitions do i use a file or ram-based swap instead.

Back when I used them, they were about meeting people,

back then they didn’t suck (as much) because they were still in the ‘acquire users at any cost’ phase.

they also had to go back and reshoot some, as filming in new york had concluded months earlier.

amazon’s web site has been horrible its entire existence.

the ones that mattered, he did.