A backup is not a backup until you attempt (and succeed at) a restore

I noticed that the range on my 433MHz garage door openers was substantially reduced Fri/Sat/Sun, but only during the day, during the night all was normal.

Also, a RaspberryPi (plastic case, unshielded) where I run a small home server 24x7 with great uptime kept locking up and requiring to be power-cycled on the same three days, but once again, only during the day.

YMMV, but that's what I observed from 29S 54W. (not able to check for aurora australis, as it was overcast and rainy the entire time)

Three Matrix movies

(and even that count is off by two according to some views)

Let me offer you my own take on this: I've been trying DuckDuck Go and Bing as options to Google, but I still (generally) get better result with Google, so it's been hard to switch.

That said, the thing about google is that you have to craft your search with very specific terms, and then on the results you must skip the first five or so "adds disguised as results", and then either you have what you're looking for in the first few "real" search results, or it won't be there at all and you have to modify your search.

I have NEVER found anything relevant in the next few pages, so I don't even bother clicking "next"

(only exception to that is perhaps image search, but even with that, next pages are more of a curiosity than useful content)

The content is super interesting, but I wanted to reply specifically to give you praise for the format: this layout with all the slides as zoomable images and the accompanying text to the side is GOLD, liked it very much.

Because they also don't have much input in driving the car today, right?

LOL, I was just doing that (checking the math) when I saw the replies :)

Not that it is any less annoying, but that's not a new discovery by FB.

... are - well, you know the drill.

In times like these I wish /. had a "laugh" reaction for the main article, this one is bonafide "+1 Funny"

Gosh, as a kid I loved that show, thanks for the trip down memory lane :-)

Surprised by how few people are using Edge as their primary browser ...

I was on the Chrome camp, but it has became slow and bloated as of lately. Migration to Edge was a total non-issue, all of my favorites, extensions, etc. just ported over. Performance is stellar and resource usage is manageable (Chrome is a memory hog!). Could not be happier :)

Not much else to say on the topic.

Just works, dirt cheap

Just the The Fleet of Worlds moving away from the upcoming core explosion.

Much older than the games, "Mostly Harmless" is how Earth is referred to in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. If he did work in tech, HHGG is most likely where we picked that moniker up.

For such a sensitive app, which basically holds your 2nd factor for a number of other properties, it misses a lock option which protects the app behind your bio-metrics or FaceID. Because of that I switched to Microsoft Authenticator, and haven't looked back. And to boot, the MS app also displays favicons for the different services (if the QR code data includes an URL), which GA didn't do back then - maybe it does not, haven't checked.