Person rebuilds an N900 to use a battery eliminator and replace the micro usb port with USB-C, and then sets it up as a media player. Ok but why bother?

It’s still useless as a phone, at least in the US, because the 3G network is dead. Sigh. Its UI was also hopelessly slow, as was the later N9’s.

Do you have to disclose 5 years of social media to get that?

Hate to say it but the replacement theory is true. They want to replace all of us with AI.

Not label printers but I’ve used thermal receipt printers which should be similar. They use a special command set designed by Epson which is supposedly “confidential” but it’s easy to find manuals online. I expect there is code around too. I didn’t attempt any CUPS integration. My program just sent the commands directly to the printer.

If less than 10 years old they’re probably usable with some upgrades here and there. Finding a use for them is harder. Maybe just get them working and give them to friends who can use them.

Not news, though important as history.

“The FCC this week released its latest totals. There were 4,730 licensed noncoms or “educational FMs” at the end of September,”

Yeah college stations usually just want local coverage. I don’t think non-commercial AM has ever been much of a thing. Among other things AM likely costs more to operate because of the higher transmit power required. Also, FM is better for music because of better audio. AM is fine for news, traffic.

I still don’t understand the bit about flying them somewhere. Where are they going? Bigger drives would mean fewer, too.

If you’re flying with drives full of data, better encrypt the data first. I’d just use the drives as a backup target for borg backup. Then at the other end, restore everything. You might need a spare, empty drive to get that process going. Alternatively, use your favorite encrypted file system if you want to keep the data encrypted after arrival, maybe a good idea too.

Better plan some logistics for one or more drives failing during this process too. I assume you have an intact copy of the data at home. So you can get a new drive written and shipped to you if something goes wrong.

Why do you have to do all this in person anyway though? Can’t you ship drives and have someone at the other end install them in a box for you? For that matter, is 80TB really too much data to transfer by network? With a mere 1 gbit connection it’s about a week of transfer.

I used to think Progresso was ok, and sometimes went on sale relatively cheap. The main thing I still get in cans now though is TJ corn kernels.

I loved Campbell’s soup as a kid. IDK if it’s worse now, but the main ingredient is salt. Maybe it always was and I once liked that.

Anyway, buying it if you’re poor is crazy, if you have any way to cook at home. There’s maybe 10 cents worth of ingredients in the can.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1980/04/22/army-report-details-germ-war-exercise-in-ny-subway-in-66/70772a8b-8223-47de-99b4-876d5e57dd9c/

While all controllers should eventually be disbursed their back pay (Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019)

Does that not constitute a government debt then? I thought the shutdown was due to hitting a debt limit. If there was a relief mechanism to create more debt for special situations like this anyway, why not just pay the ATC’s immediately through that same mechanism?

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Police executed a search warrant at the home of a University at Buffalo student after he allegedly threatened to “shoot up the school,” prompting an investigation.

Rust has exceptions? Is that new?

This is great. Soon military organizations all over the world will be recruiting poets to compose their cyberattack prompts.

I don’t use Roblox but I looked at a description and it seemed something like Minecraft, in the sense that it should really be self hosted.

That must have been the ones. I wonder if they can toast bagels from orbit.

Aha, I don’t pay close attention. I remember hearing something about space lasers and thinking “hey, I want some of those”. Oh well.

TX will just disguise its intentions a little better next time.