good luck. see ya next week.

eight million, eight thousand, one hundred and thirty-five.

aka 8008135

you, yourself, don’t even need a facebook or google account (or others) for them to have all sorts of data on you.

they don’t want those people to have affordable or ‘free’ health care, and they’re willing to die themselves to make sure they don’t ever get it.

they were ‘free’ as in no per-month rental fees… for an undisclosed period of time, anyway. they certainly would have started charging monthly for them at some point. the cable company would not ever willingly send out free, no-strings-attached electronics equipment you never had to return and was yours-to-keep.

25 years ago, i had cable with all the ‘premiums’, and internet… for less than what that same company gets just for the slowest ‘available’ internet (only) today. despite the cost to deliver bits to the home being lower now. yes. it’s faster today but the speed i had before was enough to watch a stream in realtime. it’d still be enough to watch an hd stream today (and then by extension, ‘fast enough’ for anything else i care to do at home). i never asked for faster, i wanted to keep the ‘cheaper’ but that’s not an option. they want their 90 percent pure profit. the shareholders demand it.

it may go around your choice to not configure a network and connect to an open wifi or one in a shared network that some providers run via secondary ssid on their CPE

i just pick a folder or an existing playlist and hit random. but the best things for me because they help mask noises (yes, the ones in my head mainly) are musicals (such as annie) or movies with lots of background music (disney movies are good for this) or old-school multi-camera sitcoms for the laugh track (newhart, mary tyler moore, patty duke, etc)… the other common thing between them is it’s all stuff i’ve watched a lot so it’s very familiar. if it isn’t–i’m more apt to try to watch than to doze off.

in some neighborhoods, you could literally have a cart corral next to every single parking space and somehow these lazy morons will still leave their cart in a parking space or driving lane.

it may be a ‘reunified’ state, but the divide between the former east and west germany is very much still apparent in many, if not most, maps that outline pretty much any demographic.

it didn’t take long for search engines, including google, to pick up wiki.warframe.com though, as it was just a sub off an existing and long-standing domain… the hard part was getting pages on the new address to rank higher than the old one that fandom won’t delete.

what you should do for any wiki is add the wiki’s search as a search engine in your browser. firefox makes it easy to do. just go to the wiki (i.e. wiki.warframe.com), right-click in the search box on that page, choose ‘add search engine’. add a ‘keyword’ to make searching it easy (e.g. wf), so now all you have to do to search the warframe wiki is type in firefox’s address box, example: wf void trader

our public utility used to include reports from regular testing in with the bills… they make them available online now (cost saving, it was a specially-printed multi-page insert before), but it’s still public information.

little canada, minnesota.

it’s 64gb so you can run local ai models to ‘re-clutter’ your windows experience.

E.T. the dipshit is et, and because the fucking game is bugged, we can’t get rid of him.

i usually optimize images i post. mostly with the help of RIOT, a program and plugin i’ve been using for nearly two decades (yea, even on linux). i keep an old, supporting irfanview specifically for it.

and i always optimize images used on sites i work on that aren’t intended to be high-res (like full-size or detailed photographs). high speed internet was slow to get widely available here, and it’s still not everywhere. the ‘weight’ of a web page view does matter.

i also use browsers the same way. block by default, whitelist known trusted sources only for sites i frequent. and temp accept everything else, but only that which is required to load a page i actually ‘need’ to read. if it’s “too much”, i’ll just take the known page title and run it through duck and find an alternative source… if i care to bother at all at that point.

there’s a very small number of sites for which i use a wholly-dedicated browser for, or at least a separate profile for. they’re custom configured, including addons, specifically for whatever task or site it’s for.

change it only for his device

that’s annoyed me a time or twelve, too. whenever i want to look that close at something specific, i just load the video in avidemux

try the ‘reset preferences’ button in settings.

yup. limit to the legit class 1 and 2 models only, the ones with speed and power output limiters.

if they don’t want them ‘driven’ on school property, just make that a requirement: pedal or push only while on school grounds… motors off. lock 'em up soon as you get there, don’t unlock 'em til you’re ready to leave. no hanging-out or loitering by the racks. register with the school office.

want kids to be safe: helmets required. offer safety classes… which really should be a thing at any school with a significant number of bicycle riders. one specifically for ebikes, including for parents of those kids so they know what those kinds of bikes are actually capable of and how they should be ridden.