Castillo de San Marcos - Built at Sea Level in 1672.

Castillo de San Marcos - Still at Sea Level in 2025.

How is this of any significance to humanity? Seems like a weird way to waste both time and money.

Now all my crappy code will crash much faster. ;)

I made my chat font Comic Sans because I think it's funny that the "Supreme Allied Linux Commander" for our organization (me) uses Comic Sans on Skype For Business. Keeps 'em on their toes.

But Brave Browser has no problem blocking them.

The point of advertising is to generate demand (want). The more you can influence people to want your product, the more of your product you're going to sell.

Based on BSD, it is *nix like but much more polished. It'd be most folks favorite BSD even if they don't know what's under the hood.

Otherwise, personally, it's OpenBSD. Really an amazing project

I choose to believe IRLRosie is the real Alexa. Not that she is, I just like that reality better.

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Not true. I own a John Deere tractor and live on an old farm.

There's plenty you can repair or customize on your deere tractor. As somebody else pointed out, some of their advanced machines are more like robots that plant and harvest for you. They're really cool, but it should come as no surprise that a computer controlled robot needs more sophisticated ways of maintaining than a tractor when you run a new hydraulic line or change the oil...

I bought $1000USD of Doge back when it took 12 of them to make a single penny just to have fun with on IRC. We set up a doge wallet bot and used tipping in Doge as a way to encourage productive/constructive comments and contributions to our little channel, as well as educating people about crypto. I ended up giving away at least half of the Doges to various channel dwellers just for the fun of it. (Using random soaks & tips of 100 doge here & there.)

Fast forward to now it's around .13c per doge and the coin I so liberally threw around like confetti actually has some value. It feels really good to have contributed in a positive way to crypto-currency awareness and to see those contributions actually have value.

I still have quite a bit of Doge left and it has oddly turned out to be one of the most entertaining & enjoyable successful investments I've made.

TO THE MOON!

The way that technological progress works is first it's only possible for large entities like governments, than for the elite, then for the masses.

Just look at flight for instance.

The news here is that some private citizens are doing it, which means -- over some time, maybe decades -- such technology will be readily available to all

You can usually see which laptops use 18650s, by the shape of the case. Pick a laptop, and search Amazon for replacement batteries.

I strip the 18650s out of laptops for other uses. It's just cheaper that way. It usually works out to about $1 for each 18650, including the occasional bad battery.

Thin squares, like the MacBook Pro have, are different. It's pretty obvious that an 18650 wouldn't fit in it.

Built in batteries are more likely to be flat square or rectangle types. You're SOL for replacing those with a pack of 18650s.

I only strip them down for their cells. I suppose if you're *real* careful, you could cut the case open, and be able to reseal it. There are temperature sensors inline, that you'll want to keep. and you'll need to solder the new ones together. They're typically spot welded. And, obviously, you'll need to keep the original control board. ... or just buy a replacement pack on Amazon or eBay. When the batteries die in the laptops I use, I don't try to remanufacture them. While I could do the parts cheap, the labor would exceed the cost of the replacement pack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

People do illegal stuff all the time, and there are plenty of scumbag landlords. Even though it is illegal for the landlord to do that, it's ALOT easier for them to do it then physically changing the lock or locking you out.

With that said, you are right that you would probably be protected in some way and would have the ability to put up a fight were that to happen

Obligatory XKCD:

https://xkcd.com/538/

Nothing a crowbar and hammer can't handle -- and easier than trying to "hack" a lock