What cat?

“But your Honor, there was ice in the snowman!”

Judge: “…”

Really. Just a small chunk of ice off a passing car or truck can do some serious damage. A whole ice/snowman? Might as well hit a tree.

Oh no…

Obviously working the system as mentioned by someone else, but I will say as someone in shipping, if we find an empty package, we still at least get it to the area station if not the actual customer so a claim can be made by them. It does no good to not send it through at all, as then no one has any idea where it is.

Also, a good place for a reminder, make sure your stuff is packaged well. While this seems to be a fake thing to bump ratings, cheap packages and tape fail A LOT in going from here to there, and even in the case of theft (which does happen), a securely closed package is a lot less enticing than one that’s partially open. I just saw one last week that looked a lot like this, but was certainly a legit shipping. Hoping it wasn’t medication, but it simply was a badly sealed envelope that came open and lost its contents somewhere. Probably under a belt somewhere, with no markings to trace it back to be recovered (which is also a good idea, have a phone number or address in a few places inside, not just on the outside).

“I’ll remember THAT, it’s such a trivial thing.”

All history does, not just the US.

WIndows will install it. Running it correctly… different story.

The message was not to land there. Clipper is doing a bunch of flybys (to minimize the time in Jupiter’s radiation belt and extend the life of the probe). We’re good.

I’ve used VLC in WIndows forever, but it started giving me glitchy behavior in Ubuntu. Tried to upgrade to see if it was an old version/Snap thing, got frustrated with it not working. So I went through all the lists of Linux players, tried most of them. I like Audacious. It’s not perfect, but it works well, and I can deal with some of the minor things that are more preferences than problems. That’s all I wanted.

Learned this from a work injury. Even waiting a few hours before you get stitches to pull the gap closer together will leave a scar, albeit a small one. The body doesn’t have time to wait on your slow ass; it’s repairing right away (once the bleeding stops).

It’s still a few years away, but so excited for the Europa Clipper to get to Jupiter.

Early red flags are always appreciated.

Ha, I’m not on here. Wait, that’s probably a bad thing.

How is #6 only GIS and not also normal for many gaming rigs?

This is how the meme should be used.

They saw things. Terrible, horrible things.

The early ones were easier. The one I had needed to do some mess with a grounding screw and some other stuff that I forgot (there are websites dedicated to the procedure guidelines and which requires what), and like you say, it’s not going to be able to do much anyway. Such a contrast with throwing Kubuntu on an old MacBook, and 10 minutes later it was better than new.

It’s true that most people just want instant on functionality with no need for major changes beyond colors and backgrounds. Totally fine too, for many that’s all they need. But as a “power user”, which would mean anyone that needs more than a portable browser, I was very disappointed to find that’s all that ChromeOS is (twas a used one in the family). And then when I researched putting actual Linux on it so it could do more… good god they locked that shit down hard. Not even worth that rabbit hole. And that was the intent of Google.

If it’s very dry and not much vegetation, that’s a desert.

It also means the OS is in total control of the things it’s running. This goes for running programs, shutting down, and crashing. The only crashes I have on my Linux are when I use up memory, and I’m still convinced that even though everything looks seized up, if I left it for hours or days it would probably end up resolving itself. I’ve had some cases where the OS saw the program wasn’t going in a good direction fast enough and killed it.