Unless you live in Blueville, otherwise known as Austin.

Read my comment earlier in this thread.. A tiny cup of soup and a half-assed sandwich for nearly TWELVE F'ING DOLLARS.. And during the visit in question, where the sandwitch had a BITE taken out of it, and the manager, when approached about this, gave copious attitude, and made it clear to me I was DONE with ever returning to a Panera..

Not to mention, their prices are way out of line with the ever-decreasing quality of their food. Years ago, I used to go there on weekends as I loved their bagels, and because they were one of the very few with on-premises wifi. This was late 90s-early 00s. I hadn't been to one in years and after going to one a while back, I won't be repeating that mistake. What I got for damn near $12 was a joke. I like grilled cheese sandwitches and tomato soup, and they had a combo with these items, one of their "value duets".. The plate showed up with a glorified cup of tomato soup, which in all fairness, tasted pretty good, but the quantity was but a gloried cup'o'soup. However, the grilled cheese "sandwitch" was a joke. Two small pieces of sourdough bread, and half the cheese out of the sandwitch, melted on the plate.. Now for the "fun" part, a chunk taken out of the "sandwitch" which looked awfully like someone had taken a bite out of it. I called the manager over and asked him was this what he intended to sell to the public and I got *attitude* up the wazoo. Needless to say I'm DONE with Panera...

I have a DOS 6.2/Windows 3.11 configuration on my Linux system running in Dosbox. I have a copy of VB3 and I've cobbled up quicky programs, made an exe, and though they won't run on any Windows beyond XP (as I recall), they DO run under Linux/Wine... Since I'm retired, I look for techy stuff to keep me busy.

Looks DAMN GOOD for that age...

Sounds like I should be glad I don't have a Samsung phone.

You hit the nail on the head.. the system IS broken...

I'm on the Cox "preferred" tier, which used to be 150/10, a few months ago they raised the download to 250mbps, and I found my current router, an Asus RT-N66U couldn't keep up with anything over about 150mbps. Since I really didn't NEED the additional speed, and that router worked perfectly otherwise and had all the features I needed (It ran the 3rd party FreshTomato firmware), I wasn't about to change it out. I made an interesting discovery. Since ALL of my tv is streamed by either a Roku TV or a Roku box, I noted that the LAN port on the router that was the uplink from my gig switch had downgraded from gigE to 100mbps, dropping my internet download speed to 50mbps. I noticed ABSOLUTELY NO difference in my streaming at 50mbps vs 150mbps. Recently I came into a newer Asus router that also able to run Tomato that handles the 250mbps tier speed just fine.

I sure hope the cops who beat a coerced confession out of this guy replace him in prison for a life sentence. They damn sure deserve it.

Nice idea.. Suppose neither candidate has a plan? What do you do then? Vote third-party? Good way to waste your vote.

A Tandy/Radio Shack Model 1, 4K, Level 1 basic, $795, first one sold at the Yuma AZ Radio Shack store.

No kidding on the pi-hole. I run it in a vm on my home server and I see next to zip commercials, either on youtube or elsewhere.

I've bought several deals on groupon for items, such as sdcards, bluetooth headsets, and having had good luck with those buys, I decided to try a service deal. Since I needed my a/c ducts cleaned, I found a deal for this, paid the price, and tried to contact the vendor, first thing out of the vendors mouth was "we don't service your zip code".. Contacted groupon and they refunded the cost. Found another deal for duct cleaning, paid for it, contacted the vendor and found that there would be a nearly $80 upcharge for one extra duct, and the fact that my a/c is on the roof. NONE of this was advertised in the groupon listing. I gave up on the a/c duct cleaning and decided to try a car oil change, nobody home at the phone number listed for the vendor. I'm done with Groupoff!!

Believe me its NOT just California, ANY state that has a (D) governor is having the same problems, though not quite as severe as California. My wife and I are both native Californians, but we bailed out of the early insanity, back in the mid 90s, with the first infection of the state by "Governor Moonbeam". We moved to Las Vegas, due to, at the time, MUCH cheaper housing. The houses we'd looked at in the San Diego area, were upwards of 300K even then. In Las Vegas, we bought a nice 3br 2bath, 2 car garage, built in 1977, and in a fairly nice area, for $86K. I still live there, but lost my wife to Covid in 2020. Nevada is well on its way to being "Californicated", with the turd_in_a_suit we have for a governor running us into the ground. I'm too old (72) to move to a more Conservative area, like Texas or Florida.

I swear by Dell Latitude/Precision laptops. Currently typing this on a Latitude 5480, w/ 16Gb ram, 500Gb SSD and Kubuntu 20.04. I spent 10 years of a 20 year IT career supporting Dell business systems. It seems the only way to get Linux on a non-consumer grade Dell laptop, such as a Precision, is to delete Windows and install the Linux distro of your choice. The ONLY Dell laptop I'd pay what they want for this consumer-grade latpop is if it was a Precision.