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I suspect a good portion of those Canadians who regularly visited Florida are in a very high tax bracket that would be lower here in the USA and lowered even further by Trump’s actions.

The author clearly believes our solar system, possibly our universe, circles around the most recent greeting. Thus likely returning us to a geocentric model until alien life is found speaking English? Or will any form of greeting do?

I’ve gotten called multiple times and picked to sit on three. First two times I was picked the trial blew up and they scrapped things the first day. A lost VHS juror training tape (someone had moved it from the VCR… this was after VHS was a rarity) and a Juror that lied and claimed they didn’t know one of the witnesses and had contaminated the jury, the judge was pissed. Threatened to hold them in contempt really throw the book at the juror who lied and wasted everyone’s time and tried to pervert the legal system.

Third time got paid nothing (I believe pay kicks in after a certain amount of time? possibly 2 weeks I haven’t looked in years? and uh it isn’t much) disruptive to the schedule for a week but ones civic duty and I sure wouldn’t want jurors who are aren’t paying attention etc. if I was ever on trial. So of course multiple days into the case a witness takes the stand and I recognize them. Hadn’t recognized the name was an undergrad in my graduate department years prior. I’m freaking out and wait for their testimony to finish then raise my hand and am asked to approach the judges bench. They call over the various lawyers for prosecution and defense. In hushed whispers I explain the situation. They all interrogated me about the nature of our relationship and agreed to continue the trial. We lost one person along the way from the jurors and then the final day another person failed to appear. This meant both alternates got to serve on the jury as opposed to having to sit through the entire trial and not get to decide in deliberations. Have two for that exact reason. So it was a disruptive week I got a story out of. One of my fellow jurors claimed to have once served on a 6 month trial where they got sequestered in a hotel with no outside news… a rarity but it can happen.

USA

Youtube has been an unreliable partner for a long time and is increasingly so.

All 3 of them

They yankee heritage food way of dealing with leftover coffee prior to the love affair with iced coffee was to use coffee in place of water in making a coffee gelatin dessert, coffee jello if we use a brand name.

Hiking along through tree covered mountains. Days from civilization no cell service. Other side of the country from anyone I know. Dead tired end of a 26+ mile day. Come around a corner and get a view of a massive wildfire off in the distance just the entire horizon ablaze. Bushwhacked through the rough route of a long abandoned and overgrown side trail just trying to lose elevation roughly following a small river. This is why I lug a compass for when things go sideways. Had managed to reach the father of the only local hiker joining on this impromptu bail out route via my satellite messenger. The wildfire smoke was like chain smoking light cigarettes. We eventually found a ride out of there with the father on dirt fireroad we reached after another days worth of hiking to reach it.

Because no one anywhere should be using Windows Home for anything. It is bad enough with group policy I shudder to think without.

The time it takes to draw said worm is possibly critical for survival of the subsequent step…

The 7040 discussed here is the 1st gen Framework 16" offerings and also an AMD cpu. The newer AI300 series chips don’t seem to play as nice with the older linux kernel available in Ubuntu Noble Numbat 24.04.4 without enabling HWE, HardWare Enablement. Suspend fails on the newer 2nd gen out of the box although I think in my case tracked that to the newer WiFi rather than the mobo/cpu and appears to be solved on the new LTS, long term support, due for release tomorrow. Also been getting some mouse cursor ghosting that wasn’t seen with the 7040 not full lines but half a cursor left rendered on the screen until something mouses over it again and the touchpad stutters upon engagement and jumps which is possible a known Wayland issue but is dramatically more noticeable on the AI 300 than the 7040 once using the touchpad it is fine but initial use there is a slight but noticeable lag. I mean none of these other than suspend (if you don’t know about it and torch your machine in a bag) are breaking usage.

edit newer AI300 also doesn’t seem to kick over to the GPU as reliably but haven’t troubleshot that as intending to upgrade the software shortly. Also Framework doesn’t suggest installing that older version of Ubuntu on said hardware so it seems they are aware of it but those of us who prefer LTS versions as opposed to interim releases have had issues?

Yeah… try GNOME 50… the gnome dev team left their older versions behind and they have become hot garbage sadly.

Currently regretting an “upgrade” to the Ryzen AI series… although many of its most glaring issues (that weren’t issues on the 7040) appear to be fixed in Resolute Raccoon based on testing a daily release of it as a live boot.

Apparently rather varied and more accurate in black and white than color according to the link.

There is sometimes the better quality one gets through DIY but it is rarely cheaper.

I never make chili without black beans and kidney beans…

sings “I’m only happy when it rains…”

Wildly wet. Tons of rain. Geographic reasons for it.

You know freedom means you can blow yourself up… not everyone lives in an apartment complex

This has been news for 6 years… Associated Press really did axe their employees to think this is a story.

CableMatters hasn’t always lasted forever but has never steered me wrong and always been pleased with their cables (just I have some that have died from use after 10+ years)