Yeah it's so annoying to be able to search my history on Firefox for Android but not be able to remove items. But I can remove them from the history list if I don't search and just swipe until I find them. Very annoying. It is possible on a rooted phone to use sqlite directly to remove things from history, but not terribly convenient.

Add to that he's still talking about how the 2020 election was stolen. I see no evidence he will walk away peacefully at the end of this term. He's looking more and more like Putin all the time, as he has started to use the DOJ to prosecute his political opponents, often for simply doing their jobs. He hasn't resorted to pushing people off of balconies yet. He pardoned all the Jan 6 insurrectionists, and they are now waiting for his command. But most troubling, he has a complete disregard for the constitution, and his GOP enablers are right there with him. I don't see how any lover of the constitution could rationalize this so-called unitary executive theory. Combine that with the GOP's long-standing efforts to manipulate the vote through gerrymandering and voter suppression laws, things don't look so good for democracy. I'm really not at all sure what's going to happen at the mid terms, as far as trump is concerned. The fact that it's so uncertain, or that there's even a question of uncertainty is alarming.

Trump advisors have already stated point blank they are actively working on ways to end run the constitution and have him run for a third term. Besides that, he hasn't paid any attention to the constitution up until now, and his base is totally fine with it. We're in a very interesting era now where the constitution, and the rule of law, no longer applies to the most powerful (unless of course they fall out with trump). If Trump runs for a third term, I can pretty much guarantee he'll run for a forth, fifth, etc, until he dies. And I fully expect he will announce his successor at some point.

Meanwhile a combination of Democrat incompetence and the culmination of GOP efforts to subvert voting through gerrymandering and other underhanded tactics (see North Carolina for a recipe) means we are unlikely to see any Democratic president for the foreseeable future.

If Trump bows out as he should, the next guy is definitely going to use all the power that Trump amassed, along with presidential immunity from law, to its full extent. That is very scary.

I didn't know Mazda didn't yet have any touch screens before. Had I known I probably would have looked at some of their vehicles.

Yeah it's much more efficient to just start the whole forest on fire which is basically what they want to be allowed to do. Nothing should stand in the way of tech companies being able to make money. Nothing.

Also the future of GrapheneOS is very much in doubt now that Google has decided not to release any of the firmware blobs needed to actually run AOSP on pixel phones.

EULA or not, it's still against the law in Europe. But Google will continue to ignore it, and when they get slapped with a fine they'll complain to the king who will threaten European countries with more tariffs until they acquiesce, just like he did to Canada.

I have to admit I was a little surprised to learn diquat is used in a consumer home product. Diquat is a product I use in farming, but I've always considered it to be a bit more dangerous to human health than glyphosate, so I'm very careful to use proper PPE to avoid exposure when mixing and applying.

I guess I can understand why diquat might be useful in a home setting as it wouldn't kill lawns if you sprayed some on a weed in your grass. It's also unlikely to cause herbicide resistance. We use diquat to dry down perennial crops as it does not kill the plant, and is not systemic.

Diquat is also best applied at night. I've never had it work very well when applied during the day, so that's another reason I'm surprised it's in a consumer weed spray.

I've heard of farmers using acetic acid (vinegar) as an alternative to diquat, and it apparently works quite well, but it's quite a bit more dangerous than diquat as it can burn skin and lungs easily, and it's very hard on machines.

The first thing I do on windows 11 is configure the task bar to put the start menu and application icons back over the left. It's stupid to default to the middle like it does but at least you can change it.

You can run explorer.exe from the task manager and that should relaunch the start menu. Just FYI.

Or the book burnings in 1930s Germany by the Nazi party. The historical parallels with 1930s Germany and the fall of the Wiemar Republic are quite striking.

Not everything was actually repair-able in the past either. My beloved HP 48G calculator is starting to have problems after 30 years, but fixing it right is very difficult if not impossible. I think iFixit rated the HP-48 calculators as the worst they'd ever seen for repair-ability. And they've looked at a lot of products over the years. Apple looks good by comparison. Everything is plastic welded shut. If you do manage to open it (I have managed to do this without destroying anything or pealing off the metal front), you have to break every one of the plastic heat stakes. And the keyboard itself is held in by about 20 little heat stakes. For a premium product of the day they sure made the thing as cheap as they could. And that was HP of 30 years ago when they actually built quality printers.

As far as I know recipes aren't copyright-able. Plus most of them are not original creations anyway. They are variations on hundreds-of-years old recipes passed down in families. I have some sympathy for bloggers wanting to make a few pennies from advertising, but there are easier ways to get rich.

Absolutely. I even hate it that people post STLs only on sites like thingiverse. Often I find myself manually recreating the object from the STL just to have a modifiable solid to work with. It's astounding to me how many people use mesh mixers to mixup STLs. I simultaneously cringe and admire them.

Occasionally electronics component makers release STEP files with their data sheets. For things like electrical plugs this is awesome to make sure you really are getting what you think you are. And I've been known to 3D print them in a pinch to make up a quick and dirty connector.

Guess I should have just looked. There are a whole host of add-ons to quickly extract recipes from common recipe sites. I'll have to give it a try!