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Pennsylvania governor denied drink purchase after forgetting to bring ID
  • I experienced this a few times as a foreigner in Philly. Getting denied entry to a beer garden because I didn't have my passport (I'm mid 30s so clearly not under their alcohol age), or my colleague being randomly carded at a baseball game to buy a beer, none of us got carded and he did and his only id was his EU drivers licence, and he was mid 40s. It's so bizarre.

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  • So I bought a new mouse, of course it came with RGB nonsense. Before purchasing I checked it could be disabled.

    Software to control RGB? 300MB. Who knows what the hell else that'll be doing.

    Plugged it into my Linux laptop, download OpenRGB, 1.7MB application that supports more than just this brand. Turn off the rgb, click save to device.

  • GOG is going to start deleting oversized cloud saves at the end of August
  • If the cause of this is because of Cyberpunk then that's ridiculous. It'd be like Steam deleting cloud saves because someone's Half Life save file got too big... It's their own game, marketplace and ecosystem.

  • Streets of SimCity 27 Years Later: An LGR Retrospective
  • Blast from the past! I had this on cdrom. As a child I remember our old computer that had Sim City 2000 on didn't have a cdrom drive. Our new computer did. I fondly remember copying my favourite cities from the old to new via floppy disk. Those were the days!

  • I know that it's rolling release, but 4 times this year seems a bit much
  • Yeah for my case it was easier in the initrd otherwise I'd be trying to roll back the active / partition.

    Re run levels, they were a sysvinit thing so I wasn't sure sure about systemd, this suggests that would work though https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SysVinit_to_Systemd_Cheatsheet

    And if you have to bail out even earlier, run level 1 will give you the rescue.target

  • I know that it's rolling release, but 4 times this year seems a bit much
  • Pass something stupid via your bootloader so it aborts boot and dumps you in an initrd busybox shell. No usb required.

    This was my poor man's boot environments when I was using zfs on root. I had a pacman hook to snapshot before package transactions, then if it became unbootable I'd interrupt the following boot attempt, edit my grub command line with something wrong so I'd get dumped in the busybox shell, import my zfs pool and roll back before finally rebooting again.

  • American Debt: Auto Loan Balances Hit Record $1.6 Trillion in Q3 2023
  • Similar here, bought car in 2011 and will drive it till it dies. I'm happy with an 3.5mm port.

    But for those that do feel like Bluetooth etc are must have features. You can buy head units, with touch screens and Android auto and Apple CarPlay for only a few hundred dollars, and often support connecting rear cameras etc.

  • Which software was ahead of its time?
  • I think if anything I'd view it from the other direction. We had machines with hardware support for memory protection and multitasking and we got DOS. DOS was the abberation.

    Microsoft was a Xenix vendor before it sold DOS.

  • LineageOS is currently installed on 1.5 million Android devices
  • I used to turn to custom roms to extend the life of my phone. My first smartphone didn't get an official update after I purchased it for example. The custom roms often made the phone snappier too.

    These days I'm on a mid range Samsung phone released almost 4 years ago and it's still getting updates.

  • Microsoft lays hands on login data: Beware of the new Outlook
  • The Android app has done this for years too.

    After connecting my (non Microsoft) email account to the Outlook Android app I noticed the login location was geolocated in the USA... I live in Australia.

    Unfortunately there's no way to turn it off.

  • College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT
  • Not the previous poster. I taught an introduction to programming unit for a few semesters. The unit was almost entirely portfolio based ie all done in class or at home.

    The unit had two litmus tests under exam like conditions, on paper in class. We're talking the week 10 test had complexity equal to week 5 or 6. Approximately 15-20% of the cohort failed this test, which if they were up to date with class work effectively proved they cheated. They'd be submitting course work of little 2d games then on paper be unable to "with a loop, print all the odd numbers from 1 to 20"

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