Posts by VicMortimer

Re: Neutral?

The VAST majority of American cars are not stick shift, and haven't been for decades.

The accelerator pedal is just an input to the computer on most cars now, it's in no way directly connected to anything other than wires.

Even Turdlas have 'neutral', but it's not directly connected to a gearbox any more than on any other modern car.

And you'll blow your engine if you do that with an actual throttle stuck on full in a stick shift car. You're better off hitting the brakes HARD unless it's a "stop now or die" situation.

The real problem with Turdlas is that they have essentially one pedal operation. If you don't adjust the settings properly, letting pressure off the accelerator will cause a significant amount regen braking. It's a truly stupid way to drive, and idiots who leave it turned on will get used to it and forget how to use the brake pedal.

Re: "it's sad to see them hit the end of their useful lives"

Hmmm. Maybe I won't 'upgrade' for a while.

Re: "It's a stark reminder"

Saying "stop paying" doesn't work.

Making it a crime to pay works. CEOs don't want to go to prison.

Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437

(I remembered it having some awful graphic character nonsense, had to check about that specific character. But it was there.)

Re: "Accor Security, the security arm of Accor, which owns the Ibis Budget chain"

That's an improvement.

Hotels wipe the kettle with the same rag they use to wipe the toilet.

Re: Kobo DRMed

You seem to have missed "use Calibre and DeDRM to remove DRM and convert them to EPUB".

Once you've done that, your ebooks will not go 'poof'.

The only one I was ever around wasn't all that loud. I mean, I suppose it was loud, but I was much more tolerant of noisy computing equipment back then, and it was near the end for line printers, so the sound enclosure was quite good. I suppose it could be described as a buzzing sound, particularly if you were in the next room. I don't remember exactly what it was, I do remember it was the band type. Its job was to print bank statements for a small bank.

LOL - I've got one Eudora Internet Mail Server still going.

I'm not the one making the decision to keep it, but holy crap that thing is robust. It's been functioning for decades at this point, there have only ever been two CVEs issued for it, both patched.

(Ok, technically it's still being updated a bit. Last release was May 2023.)

But... cloud? Never. No way. Not happening.

Re: Blending

Huh, didn't know y'all had somebody different doing the voice.

Elwood Edwards did it here.

Re: From the heavens above

What kind of cretin doesn't like melted cheese?

Not that SickDonald's serves cheese, of course. Nor meat, nor bread. It's just plastic and cardboard.

Pretty sure the pickle doesn't have any sugar, if it did I'd have noticed and retched, I despise sweet pickles. Those and the onions are about all that place has that's edible, even the lettuce is somehow substandard.

The US isn't going to extradite anybody to India for something that would be a 1st amendment violation here.

I'm not sure if Xitter has employees in India. They don't have a call center at all, so that's not going to be there. I'm guessing they probably have a few servers to handle the local traffic.

Re: The experience in the US

Federal, state, and local laws all apply. The FCC essentially forces it to happen, states tend to set rates, cities regulate where they can be placed and when poles can't be used and everything has to go underground. In general if the electricity is underground nobody is getting permission to put up a pole for anything.

Well, that's certainly a take. A very, very wrong one, but a take nonetheless. A thorough misunderstanding of what Sendmail is and does, even. It's an email transport server, not a client.

Also, an email client should do email, NOT calendars, contact lists, or task lists. And it should do email with internet standard protocols, not proprietary crap. Outsuck is quite possibly the worst email client of all time.

Re: Interesting

Apple decided to roll their own instead of using Samba. It... wasn't as good. The biggest problem was file permissions, it wouldn't set them correctly for new files, they'd be user rw but group read only. My nasty fix was a cron job that reset permissions on everything in the shares every 5 minutes.

Users who have local admin (and that's VERY common in small businesses) will find a way to install updates they aren't supposed to.

I've heard "It just did it itself!" more times than I can count. I know the user is lying, but it's generally easiest not to call them on it.

That's exactly how it works in the US too.

Re: I'll wait for it

Have you tried Grindr? Should be plenty of bears on there.

Re: Good use

Would you, though?

I've had to replace one halogen headlight bulb in my Ford, it's 11 years old. The other one is still fine (if slightly dimmer, I'm considering maybe changing it anyway and keeping it for a spare).

I did, annoyingly, have to pull the headlight assembly to change it, but I think it was only 5 screws. I almost managed it without pulling the whole thing, but my hand was just a few mm too thick.

Re: Legal Opinions generated By AI?

So, just like Diaper Donnie's lawyers.

Re: So, he's thinking about the children, eh ?

Every accusation a confession.