Not a newt

two thumbs up = 100

So how would you distinguish this from 55?

you can also count to 12 on one hand, by counting the segments on your index through pinky fingers with the thumb. Fingertips are 1-4, middle segments 5-8, lower segments 9-12.

Just like grandpa.

Not disagreeing on that, my comment was more about configuration options. After 4.4 they started removing so much QoL stuff under the excuse of simplicity: the indicator LED, several volume controls, the headphone jack, made gesture controls default, etc.

Agreed. 4.4 was the pinnacle of user-configurable Android. after that they started removing features and locking things down.

They just switch the locale to Australia.

Small Gods was my second choice, and has the advantage of being self-contained. After that, I’d pick a book appropriate for the target demographic. The witches’ stories have lots of girl power, Monstrous Regiment does too (plus a heavy dash of LGBTQ acceptance), the Moist von Lipwig stories frequently touch the differences between what’s legal and what’s right, several books take a jab at racism and populism, etc.

Terry Pratchett’s books come to mind. If I’d have to pick a single one it would probably be Men at Arms, but it’s a very tight race.

The books are easily digestible, but offer timeless social commentary and provide relatable characters that still do good despite being flawed.

GNU PTerry

Different regions have different channels available. And original access points didn’t have any congestion detection capabilities (didn’t need them, because at that time there weren’t so many people using access points), so it was left up to the owner to pick one and stay on it.

On the other hand, people who don’t know enough about how WiFi bands work will look at the channels used in the area, see that they tend to “crowd” on channels at specific intervals (e.g. channels 1, 7, and 11 for 2.4GHz networks), and think they’re better off picking an in-between one because hey, it’s not used. However they don’t realize that by doing so they make everyone’s WiFi worse including their own, because those “crowded” channels are preferred so that they don’t overlap with each other. If everyone picks channels 1, 7, or 11 then they will only conflict with signals from those channels. Someone then picking e.g. channel 4 will conflict with everyone on channels 1 and 7.

Oh definitely. Like I said, I don’t begrudge others the things that bring them joy, and I will make reasonable effort to not spoil it for them. But it drains my social battery to be masking all the time, which further degrades any second hand fun I might have.

I don’t hate Christmas, but it’s a holiday that relies on tradition and I derive no joy from traditions. The whole “we’re doing this because it’s been done every previous year of our life” schtick just rubs me wrong. I recognise that for some people there is comfort in tradition. For me however it feels more like indoctrination.

But did they have a poster for their Cyber Security Awareness Month?

Rebuild: no. If the software itself is unmaintained, it gets replaced.

Patch: yes. If the base image contains vulnerabilities that can be fixed with a package update, then that gets applied. The patch size and side effects can be minimized by using copacetic, which can ingest Trivy scan results to identify vulnerabilities.

There’s also repos like Chainguard and Docker hardened images which are handy for getting up to date images of commonly used tools.

Aaron Earned an Iron Urn

Found wage theft. That is, of the number of incidents reported, which ones were ruled to be theft. But there’s the undocumented part of wage theft.

The nostalgia comes from the context that dialup involves: the early decades of the Internet, the pre-commercialization optimism about ubiquitous connectivity. Hearing the dialup sound evokes memories linked to those feelings, just like hearing music you heard in your youth evokes memories of that time.

“Military grade leather.”

But the data needs to be correlated! For example, how many people know it’s a repost but upvote it anyway because it’s a classic?

Librewolf (PC) or Fennec (Android) if you want to stay in the Firefox ecosystem. Vivaldi if you don’t mind A Chrome based browser.