I usually just pay fair price for the person I wanna bang. $1.25, plus tax of course…

As true as that may be, what’s the deal with all the times I’ve read stories of people setting up and configuring everything the way they want, and then after installing whatever particular updates manually, then MS reverts a bunch of settings back the way they want?

I dunno, but when I got my HP laptop that shipped with Windows 10, I got to an initial setup screen that asked me something like what’s my mother’s middle name or maiden name or something like that, for sake of password recovery I believe.

Even though I’m sure I could have entered in any random nonsense that I’d remember, I was like what effing business is it of the OS to ask such private details?

I didn’t even finish the setup and first boot, I shut it down right then and formatted and installer Linux Mint MATE 20, and I couldn’t be happier.

Isn’t it just wonderful how M$ can just screw you without your consent? To hell with Windows!

Welcome fellow penguin 🐧

We rode out Katrina near the Mississippi Gulf Coast back in 2005, in a run down trailer made in 1979. We didn’t board up the windows, matter of fact we did exactly the opposite.

We opened all the windows and doors, to allow the air pressure changes easier to try to equalize. We sat in the living room, no power, just a battery powered radio, watching the walls ‘breathe’, if you will…

Scary shit yo, but our beater trailer survived. About 45 minutes after the strong winds started to settle down, suddenly the water level raised about a foot and a half, only a couple inches from coming in our front door. Luckily we were on high enough ground that we didn’t get water in the trailer. Luckily.

We were two weeks without power, but at least my dad was smart enough to be prepared with a 400 gallon tank of chlorinated ground water. People though he was crazy for having that much treated water prepared, until Katrina hit, then he was sharing the water with all the neighbors.

TL;DR - Stay safe out there, and prepare early.

Thank you for sharing an update on this storm. There are a couple of tropical weather communities in the fediverse, but they don’t seem to get much attention…

The ENIAC, one of the original ‘programmable’ general purpose digital computers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC

https://books.google.com/books/about/ENIAC_the_Triumphs_and_Tragedies_of_the.html?id=l2nGQgAACAAJ

This was a significant era of computing history, and in the modern digital era, I think everyone should at least get a sense of the early days of digital technology.

I do not have an answer for you, but if I may ask…

Why?

It’s definitely not a top notch phone, so don’t expect it to be a powerhouse of a gaming phone or whatever, but it’s actually a pretty decent phone to be fair.

It doesn’t have many sensors, only the accelerometer, light, proximity, and significant motion sensors, so don’t expect it to work with RFID or NFC devices either. No compass sensor either ☹️

But where it lacks in power and features, it makes up for in an amazing battery life, plus even the stock Android ain’t too damn bad. 👍

I wasn’t suggesting that I’d expect newer DirectX to work on older versions of Windows. I was suggesting that I would have expected newer DirectX standards to still be backwards compatible with older DirectX standards.

Sigh, I guess Satya Nadella decided to scrap backwards compatibility. Oh well, I switched to Linux after Windows 8 came out anyways. 🤷‍♂️

Guess not, but as far as I ever knew, M$ has been known to try to maintain backwards compatibility for longer than most users would even consider necessary.

XP supported DirectX 7/8/9

I would have figured that would have continued on with future versions of Windows, but I guess Satya Nadella decided to scrap backwards compatibility.

Oh well, all the more reason I switched to Linux as my main daily runner after Windows 8 came out. 🤷‍♂️

Why would someone expect DirectX12 to not also support 11/10/9/8/7?

I have a Blu B131DL that allows the bootloader to be unlocked without being online. No WiFi, no SIM card, it just simply allows unlocking. No catches.

I haven’t actually done anything with it though, it’s still on its stock Android 11, but it’s nice to know I have that option.

Léon URL Cleaner

It’s a simple app that strips extra unnecessary details like tracking tags from copied URL links. Highly recommended for sake of privacy, plus the cleaned links are shorter and tidier.

As cute as this is, we used to have around 20 goats on a 40 acre open horse ranch, and you couldn’t get within 50 feet of any of them without them all running away.

Prison Snitch = Snitchie Bitchies get the Stitchies

Erectile Dysfunction = Teenie Weenie

So, aside from numerous other angry words I could say…

How is this going to affect incoming phone calls? Will I be able to at least talk with my friend, without having to hear ads the whole time because I was watching a video?

Just a friendly reminder, https://grayjay.app/ is a thing, screw the YouTube app.

Front right: Wallet. Always there, even when I sleep.

Edit for front right, I also keep minimal keys there.

Front left: Phone.

Rear right: Multitool.

Rear left: Smokes and lighter.

I told Marine Patrol to fuck off in Mississippi. He threatened to arrest me. His passenger told him he was the one in the wrong, because he had no business laying on his horn like he did as he passed me on my bicycle.

There was no sense in him laying on the horn. He could have easily caused me to get startled and wreck my bike. He would have definitely been in the wrong if he had startled me that much to cause an accident.

Interesting. I’m not quite sure what the laws were back in 1996, but yeah with school and all, plus the travel distance of over 30 miles, even if it was legal for me to work a few hours a day after school, it wouldn’t have been practical at all.

Still nice that he offered the job, I was trying to brainstorm and troubleshoot why my first sound card didn’t work. Turned out he got a defective batch, like 3 other customers had the same issues.

He knew I did all the proper troubleshooting already. Honestly I forget what model sound card it was, but once I proved it didn’t work, he gave me a different card that cost twice as much, for no extra money.