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In German there’s the word Dachhase (literally translated “roof hare”). Why it exists? Well…
There are several reports that people ate cats in the 1600-1900, especially the poor when times were hard. And if you gut a cat, cut it’s paws, head and tail and remove it’s fur, the remainder look similar to what would remain of hares. Since cats can reach the roofs, but hare don’t, this term was coined.
See also https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachhase (no English page available)
So, the beautiful original that was opened 1982 has a cheap copy opened in 1836?
That could have worked out, had you used e.g. the arch of Macedonia that opened in 2012…
In theory, as every smart TV might act as an access point, it’d be sufficient to be in the range of your neighbors smart TV.
as HDMI may carry Ethernet signals, that isn’t too far fetched…
Germany:
I checked the rules.
Although there are a ton of regulations, surprisingly none seem to reference the height, size, etc. of a toilet (seat). That’s surprising, if you consider the minimum spacing of the toilet to the wall, door,… is given (see page 10 - 15).
But there is this “catch-all rule”
(10) Durch Einrichtungsgegenstände oder bauliche Einrichtungen in Sanitärräumen dürfen Sicherheit und Gesundheit der Beschäftigten (z. B. durch Schnitt- oder Stoßkanten oder durch die Möglichkeit zur Ansammlung von Krankheitserregern) nicht gefährdet werden. [Page 5]
This basically translates to “Furnishings and physical structure may not endanger safety and health of the employees”. The examples given are referencing e.g. sharp edges or possible accumulations of pathogens, but in the end I think that intentionally inducing strains is not very ergonomic and could be considered a health hazard.
10-15 years ago:
Me: Buys a gaming PC
Ads: Here’s a local pizza delivery service. Want to order?
Fine, somewhat related at least.
Today:
Me: Buys a gaming PC
Ads: what about this gaming PC? Or that one? Maybe this upgrade kit (worse specs than what I bought) is interesting? Like this PSU/CPU/RAM/graphics card/…? Hot gamer singles in your area want to…
Ah, fuck Off!
Yep, it’s morning wood!
Won’t somebody think of the shareholders?
“Licking N-word actresses’ feet”?
That explains why vibe coding is so popular… just commit after every iteration the LLM spits out
…the way Switch carts are made there is no difference at all between a cart used on a console and the same cart resold for a different console.
IIRC every cartridge has its own cryptographic key and can be uniquely identified. When it became possible to dump game cards and load them on a flash card, there were reports, that it is possible, that this might lead to a detection - as the flashcards need to replicate this key. Now, Nintendo might have no way to tell if you lend the game to someone, of the other switch that uses it bought the game from you, etc. BUT if it is pirated, it’s possible to detect, when the original and the copy are played at the same time, as the cartridge cannot be physically in two switches simultaneously. There were never any reports, that someone really got banned because of this, though…
No, were ashamed that our species is collectively capable of voting for a guy like him. We’d love to point a finger at Americans and imitate Nelson with a “Ha Ha!” of pure Schadenfreude (and maybe even a meme of “That’s the worst president they’ve elected in the history of their nation! - That’s the worst president they’ve elected in the history of their nation so far!” or watch from the distance saying “He’s about to do something stupid”)
But honestly, we just can’t laught at Americans while they’re not only affecting and destroying their lifes but also try to drag down as many others world wide as you can.
Now I’m just sitting here waiting for a reply along the lines of:
No, he’s not my president - I’m from Europe/Asia/Africa/South America
I wonder if there is a real reason why it’s needed, or they just engineered themselves into a bad corner…
Same. They do have some features that sound kinda sane and may play a role here - like the system field are write protected. Programs can request to run a script on start-up to modify them before the write-protection kicks in. Also they might want/think it’s a good idea to run some part of the updates on the new kernel version instead of the old one or maybe do a cleanup on a successful boot or so. Also, maybe they want to force a reboot straight to Windows before the update is finished to prevent problems with dual boot - that could rule out “install and shutdown and only continue with the remainder on the next boot”. Also it might be for convenience, as the next boot is as fast as usual and you do not see 10 mins of “applying updates” when you didn’t calculate with that.
But if you offer “install and shutdown”, it should shutdown in the end and not stay on the lock screen and hopefully go into sleep mode…
So… Is the company on question a construction company or a brothel?
I somewhat get it - end as much processes as possible, apply everything that is possible, then restart and apply the remainder. My pet peeve is just that it should automatically shut down after applying the updates instead of staying at the lock screen, when I say install and shutdown…
665.99983726383 - The number of the Pentium beast
That’s the default mode