The USB-A should be relocated between the Centronics and RS-232 ports. Save space by mounting it vertically!

bizarre as it sounds, try Walmart's house brand, Onn.

they'er the only brand (other than apple itself) that I've tried that consistently works (and I've tried most if not all of the major brands).

They usually last until I do something stupid (leave behind, catch in hinges, drop laptop cable first, etc.). And the price is right, too--most are $6-$10.

>I'm hoping to see the first recycled reactor core! ;^)

c'mon, now.

*everyone* knows that reactor cores blow into a fireball of plasma when you eject them, as soon as they're far enough out that the writers think the ship can (almost) plausibly escape! :)

hawk

I imagine that the first question after installing Linux would be "Now how do I sync albums that I bought on the band's Bandcamp page onto my iPhone?" As far as I'm aware:

- iTunes for Windows uses the Apple Mobile Device Service driver to sync over a USB cable, and drivers don't run in Wine.
- libimobiledevice on Linux can write files to an iPhone but not the music database that the included Music app uses.
- Though the VLC app can play music from files, nothing but the included Music app can make playlists containing both purchased music and rented music from the roommate's Apple Music family plan. Not all bands are with a label that's on Apple Music.

I left Windows on her laptop and turned off S Mode.

Many new computers with Windows 11, such as a Lenovo IdeaPad that my roommate received as a birthday gift, come set to "S Mode" and will not run applications from outside the Store. There is a way to disable S Mode permanently on a particular PC. This shows a sequence of alert boxes whose wording may be scary to particularly nontechnical users such as my roommate.

In my part of the United States, both Kroger and Dollar Tree impose a surcharge for cash back on a debit transaction. Walmart still does not.

My CU offers a bit of reimbursement, which I don't use.

Fidelity, however, has "all fees reimbursed" for a number of accounts.

Then again, you're not likely to have a cash account there if you don't have significant other assets with them.

>Dawn Wells (Maryann on Gilligan's Island) did because her
>manager/husband asked for them and the studio thought it would
>flop so they said OK as they didn't expect to pay them.

this appears to be an urban legend, although oft repeated.

In the last years of her life, she was pretty much pleading for help for her medical bills.

The end game will be dismissal of the case for lack of standing.

It is well established that cows lack standing to sue, even if they can be in chk-a-fil ads! :)

hawk

>I can hit the mute button if need be.

the mute button was the most important technological advance in the second half of the twentieth century, even ahead of recording and fast forward.

It does, though, mean missing all those opportunities to by precious metals for a third their value, guaranteed acceptance insurance with a benefit of three months or so of premiums, and so forth. Oh, and all those products worth about the shipping cost, but with the opportunity to pay a few tines that plus shipping.

>Some of the antenna farms are 50 miles away.

you don't need that kind of distance go have a problem.

most of the transmitters in town are something like 5-7 miles from me. I can clearly see them with my naked eye from about half my front porch (a two story pool building across the street blocks the line form about half).

But they seem to have crammed two many sub-channels into too little bandwidth. Some days my wife's favorite western channel comes in perfectly clearly, but mild weather variation can cause it to collapse into non-watchable, with no sound and a half a frame every several seconds. All the while, the main .1 station would be coming in just fine.

over time, they allocate more and less bandwidth to the various little channels.

But the real question is: is he making this up?

hawk

more importantly, what happens to the cats that eat these mice?

The claim was that trade deficits were the closest thing to an emergency that the President could find as a justification. I explained that the fentanyl use epidemic was the other justification, which some people might have an easier time accepting as an emergency.

As I understand the executive order abolishing de minimis entry, the tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China aren't based on trade deficit as much as on these countries' failure to cooperate in preventing fentanyl and fentanyl precursors from getting smuggled into the USA.