I was just in LAX the other day and saw one of these signs in the security line. I can confirm with my own eyes that the sign is real.

Honestly, knowing the administration is hiring ICE agents at 100k+ starting salaries (for context, you generally have to be pretty late in a professional career with a multi-page resume to be approaching such salaries) arresting, detaining and forcibly deporting on chartered deportation flights is a heck of a lot more expensive and takes a lot longer than just handing families a couple grand plus $500 in plane tickets to get out. I suspect they’re quietly doing this to bolster deportation numbers since forcibly deporting takes a ton of manpower and therefore is quite a bottleneck for meeting the deportation targets Trump has stated

That’s the dumbest part of it all is that pirates seriously get the best movie/TV experience of anyone. I mean, maybe if you spend a shitton on DVD and BluRays to rip you can match that experience, but even that can be legally dubious depending on the jurisdiction

I’ll take a pair of rubber feet too!

This is one of those things that will vary wildly by person. Some people are absolutely wicked smart in their 70s having had 7 decades to read, write and digest and reinterpret and reread information and some people are entirely mentally gone by that point.

It’s just like physical health, some people don’t do anything to maintain it and start decaying in their 30s and some people remain in amazing physical health into their 70s and 80s, and some people have something tragic happen that hobbles their health for the rest of their lives. You simply can’t make sweeping generalizations like you have

I mean most of his tweets are deranged rants, its just that it so happens he’s the president of the United fucking States so whatever he says has the weight of the United States and all it implies behind his words now

That argument suggests you bought the lie of what the age verification is for. When every service is required to perform age verification, it quickly becomes not about porn but control.

They’re trying to close the Pandora’s box that is the internet decades after the fact, and they’re learning the hard way how impossible and unpopular that is

I mean it’s all licensed by the frequency and antenna transmit power, so long distance is possible with the right choice of protocol, antenna and frequency you can get a surprisingly long distance with unlicensed spectrum. Ubiquity makes some directional antenna for wirelessly connecting 2 sites that operate in the 2.4 and 5ghz ranges that can connect over distances of multiple kilometers

Flash drives of banned foreign films are the one method of accessing foreign media that north Koreans realistically have. It’s extremely hard to prevent people plugging a flash drive into their computer in their home to view some media

Office 365 requires an account to validate the license. Potentially it might work differently for the long term licensed versions (which features released to O365 now wouldn’t reach until the next LTSC release), but I’ve not performed the initial install and licensing of those for clients yet

Or for home users who aren’t already invested in a Microsoft ecosystem your best bet is to just use Libre Office

Edit: I accidentally made Office exclusive to leap years!

I was farting around with renpy and grabbed some free assets since I wasn’t making anything important, and I noticed that each image was a full megabyte, so I converted them to webp and reduced the entire project from 20mb down to just a few megs (I don’t remember specifically but I remember it was a significant reduction)

I remember it being suggested that AI image generators could be used as an extremely lossy image format, since you can generally get the same generator to output the same image given the same weights, seed, settings and prompt

in case you missed it, someone else corrected us and its Two Point Hospital I was thinking of, not Project Hospital

oh shit you’re right!

It’s absolutely goofy. Honestly it plays almost identically to Theme Hospital. I played both around the same time and I can’t remember what was from which game now

I’ve just been thoroughly unimpressed by all of the American car brands. Crap vehicles with lousy interiors the lot of them.

I’m currently working through getting everything fixed and sorted following an intense hail storm and it’s become very apparent that I’ve taken on the role of property manager by daring to own my own home. Honestly a pain in the butt at times. Long term it’s worth while but yikes!

Idk I’ve met some pretty frustrating administrators who understandably hate Microsoft but they then go and refuse to learn anything else, refuse to use anything other than some variant of Windows for anything that needs an operating system then complain when their hacks to make windows do stuff it was never designed to do (or stuff it once was designed to do but hasn’t been supported since Server 2003) get broken.

As an administrator part of your job is to identify the right tool for the job. I am most comfortable in Linux, I find the general architecture to make far more sense than Windows. I fully recognize that for most businesses Windows is the best bet on many cases. But there are also situations where windows should be your last possible choice. These admins setting up IIS Server and windows-based SCSI targets, using HyperV instead of a better hypervisor for more than a handful of VMs, they frustrate me to no end and I have to suspect they just have given up on learning anything new with these choices

My understanding is that’s true of basically all insulation. Old structures were built with the assumption that they’d breath, and insulation wasn’t as important since they’d be heated by fireplace in the winter (either directly or using the fire to heat water for radiators) and air conditioning wasn’t a thing yet.

Josh Hawley is a lunatic, but I suppose a broken clock can be right a couple of times a day.

As long as the bill doesn’t have anything super problematic buried in its language this sounds potentially quite beneficial

Reportedly a lot of his supporters are becoming disillusioned by the whole sex trafficking thing. Like ,what was your first clue but also better late then never?

There’s even a theory that a lot of people are using the whole Epstein thing as a offramp