That’s also why the months are numbered wrong. If you know Latin, or at least one of the romance languages that derived from Latin, then "Septem"ber should be the 7th month, "Octo"ber should be the 8th month, "Novem"ber should be the ninth month, and "Decem"ber should be the 10th month. But that’s not how it works today, as we no longer count March as the first month of the year.

My assumption would be that they drove the car into the mine to see what would (or wouldn’t) work if the vehicle was cut off from the mothership. My hunch is they didn’t really find anything of interest so this is what gets reported.

You could make it a small server with a built-in UPS. Or hook it up to an external display, keyboard, and mouse if someone wants to use it as a desktop computer and possibly for some gaming. Or just use it to play around with different Linux distributions, or something like that.

One of the problems though with running a laptop as a server running 24/7 is the hardware really isn’t built for that, especially gaming laptops that tend to already run a bit on the warm side. Given it’s also AMD and I’ve not found their mobile stuff to be particularly good, honestly I’d be tempted to pull the RAM and storage - assuming it’s not soldered in place, and junk the rest of it.

From what I can tell, the search engines now heavily favor recently updated and new content and push old content way down in the results or as it seems more recently will quite often not even show it at all.

Well, now we have Safari holding things back, being it’s the only browser engine on iOS (other iOS browsers are just Safari reskins). It’s the buggiest and most outdated of the major browsers, but you can’t ignore it because the iDevice market is too big. It’s pretty much the new IE6.

just press the Windows/Command key and type what I need

Which on Windows 11 may or may not actually return anything remotely close to what you want.

Worked great on Windows Vista/7.

Looks like I’m Zagreus from the game Hades. So probably not too bad off, because while I can still die, I’m also immortal.

Other than Hades himself being rather unpleasant, the House of Hades actually doesn’t seem like a bad place to be, and the no violence rule means it should be relatively safe.

However, there is no escape.

The problem with a third party ROM without Google Services is that a lot of these apps simply won’t work without Google Services present. You might as well be using a flip phone as far as this stuff is concerned.

That’s my qualification. It’s a new computer when I’m just nicking a few bits out of the old computer, either leaving the old computer still functional or could be made functional again without too much trouble.

I got hit with something like that because I responded to a survey from my representative. It’s like I responded to your survey because you’re my representative, not because I personally support you or your political party.

I still don’t get the people who say they are going to watch the Super Bowl for the ads, then the day after the game they’re bitching about how terrible the ads were.

I’m like… yeah… they are ads…

Admittedly back in the .com days there were some good ones.

That’s some vintage hardware there too.

Librewolf by default deletes all cookies when you close it. So that will log you out of every website, but that also makes sure things like tracking cookies don’t hang around.

You can tweak those settings if you want.

There was actually four different standard designs. You had the rectangular lights which came as either a 4x6" quad configuration, or the larger 5x7"design with one light on each side. Then there was the 5 3/4" round lights which were also a quad configuration, and the 7" round lights with one on each side. Prior to 1975 there was only the round designs and prior to 1958 when the quad 5 3/4" round light configuration were allowed, the only legal headlight was the 7" round design, which itself dated back to 1939.

The reason for the standardization in 1939 was that similar to today, every car had different designs in different configurations, though the main problem then was finding replacement lights when they inevitably burned out or got damaged.

The first car with composite headlights (in the US) was actually the Ford Thunderbird, but the Taurus is one everyone noticed.

A number of e-bikes now come with built-in lights that are just on all the time, hence the reason why bikes that are all lit up in the middle of the day are starting to become common.

A lot of these lights have little or no adjustments either.

I point mine down so it illuminates the road in front of me, and slightly in the direction facing away from oncoming traffic. I also use the dimmest setting, and don’t have it in blink mode unless it’s foggy out.

That’s one of things that bothers me about how AI is being pushed in the workplace. Assuming AI actually does manage to help me get my work done faster, it’s not like I get to home earlier or work less days. I’m just going to get more work piled on me.

Not really, the smarts are integrated into the control circuitry. You can’t bypass them and turn them into simple, dumb displays.

Depending on the model, you can block the TV from the internet and leave it on set to one of the inputs and the smarts bits won’t bother you again. Other ones are more intrusive and pushy about it.

The indie game scene is thriving and while there’s a lot of crap out there, it’s not really what I’d consider enshitified.

On the other hand, AAA games and anything mobile is absolutely enshitified.

Hell, I’m a bit surprised they managed to make that one in 1946.