I’m sure that adambarta probably doesn’t see that as a problem.

Maybe he needs to have someone explain the insult to him.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yHD0ZEsI1OE

A gold or yellow wash should salvage them.

A mottled tan “filter” at the other end will also make them more cigarette-like.

One thing (only good thing) about Vista was that it rationalised Printer (and Scanner) Drivers.

The UI was consistent between printer manufacturers and everything could be accessed through one interface.

Then the Printer manufacturers complained to MS because they couldn’t have infinite branding all over the interface and the feature was dumbed down in 7.

Meanwhile Apple used the same UI for all Printers (based on CUPS) and didn’t even let a company logo appear in the interface.

Not all the Apple CUPS drivers were available for Linux CUPS so unfortunately Linux (at the time) still had their device compatibility issues.

My old workplace had a stain like that just above the reps desk. It was directly below the toilet in the Executive Suite.

They were too “frugal” to get a plumber in and the stain kept getting bigger and bigger.

About a month after I left for a better job, one of my former coworkers told me that it finally gave way.

The manager came in to a huge pile of excrement all over the reps new laptop and splash stains (and accompanying smell) all throughout the phone room.

So glad I left.

The thing is that these reports (and training material and industry analysis) is Deloitte’s bread-and-butter.

If they have begun outsourcing their product to an LLM, and believe that the new is comparable to the product they previously provided, they are admitting that everything they have ever produced is garage and no one should be paying them anything.

Advanced Data Protection does require all iCloud Ecosystem devices to be current.

Not every person can afford the latest and greatest.

I’m gonna play devils advocate here (and probably be monstrously downvoted);

ICEBlock stored the location data of all its users on Apples iCloud Servers. This the perfect target for ICE; a complete database of locations of every person who doesn’t want ICE to know where they are.

One assumption is that that Apple realised how tempting this data is to the current demonstrative administration and purged it before ICE could get their civil-liberty-abusing mitts on it.

Our local Street Racing in the 1970s also included an entrant provided by the Local Police. They also provided road closures and crowd control and usually won, reinforcing the idea that if you took part in illegal street racing, you were likely to get caught.

There has been a huge crackdown on Street Racing in the last 50 years and we no longer locally manufacture Muscle Cars.

The former Street Racers have turned to 4WDing and have been tearing up 4WD tracks and Firebreaks since.

This makes it difficult for Hikers, Horseriders, Mountain Bikers, campers and recreational touring 4WDers, as well as park rangers and firefighters.

I remember that he (or someone pretending to be him) was in an and for Sensodyne toothpaste.

The problem is that the Grifter-in-Chief will continue playing all the different splinter-hate-groups off each other for profit and so a lot of damage to social cohesion in the process.

Our most recent house is in a very exclusive neighbourhood so we decided to wash the fence with (grey) coloured fence wash, rather than our go-to motor oil. This is the first boundary fence in our family that is rotting out.

You may still be infected with their “anti-cheat” RootKit, even if you installed from the Steam Store.

Time to nuke Windows and reinstall.

Headline should be “EA gamers computers infected with “anticheat” RootKit to be converted into largest BotNet on planet.”

It does have its use case, especially since Things are so bloody expensive nowadays.

When a replacement car key costs $2000, some people may chose to pay $50 for a keyring that makes it easy to find them when the lose them down the back of the sofa, regardless of the privacy implications.

That said, I have never had to search for the two items I have an AirTag attached to; although an AirTag in my wallet would be handy.

We had a bit of stockpile of used motor oil. We used it to treat redgum sleepers to make a deck at the back of my brothers place.

The parts of the deck treated with motor oil are still pristine and intact. The parts treated with linseed oil discoloured. The untreated parts of the deck splintered and rotted.

One of our local councils tried to ban home oil changes.

If you weren’t in an industrial zone, you weren’t allowed to perform any work on your car whatsoever, we had one tech who received a fine because he helped a friend change a tyre in his own driveway.

There were protests at the next council meeting, the councillors demanded a police escort from the building and the new bylaws were reverted.

I admit that that is a pretty big assumption, but I do have faith in the people.

It may be misplaced faith.

The only way out is;

1. Landslide against Republicans for 2026 MidTerms.
2. Landslide agains Republicans in 2028; to the point where they no longer exist.
3. New progressive Democratic Party.
4. Landslide against Right-Wing Democrats in 2030 Midterms
5. Landslide against Right-Wing Democrats in 2032.

I let my Phone (and CarPlay) map my route for me; but I do like throwing a spanner in its workings by deliberately taking a wrong turn to explore.

Previously, I would do the same, but then I would have to pull over and spend 15 minutes browsing the Street Directly trying to figure out where I was before I was able to continue my journey.

Having a frictionless (and relatively) safe way of exploring has empowered me.