So triggered.

I have a gas and a battery mower, each one worse than the other. Both old, battered, and free. Though, I replaced both 12V 18Ah SLAs in the battery mower 5 months ago.

The battery mower has an effective runtime of 20 to 30 minutes. The gas mower burns through a tank of gas in 90 to 120 minutes and its oil in about 30 minutes. I would have bought a new gas mower last year when its predecessor finally died, but the granola munchers who run the state made that illegal.

While a battery mower is the perfect solution for millions it doesn't cut it for me. With that short of a runtime the grass literally grows faster than it can cut it. And this, the first season with it, has been a low growth year.

One aggravating thing...a gas mower runs a full power until the last couple ounces of fuel. A battery mower starts losing power almost immediately and is basically useless in 40 minutes, but never stops spinning. I don't know how long, but it likely will spin for hours until it cannot overcome air and internal mechanical resistance.

According to one guy, DVD re-releases get overcompressed making look like crap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
New releases may also suffer this now. I doubt studios ever cared about video/audio quality and now that physical media is not the money maker it used to be...

The actual Safeway was sued for doing something very similar to Coles...
https://www.mercurynews.com/20...
This was a private lawsuit.
Separately, district attorneys of several California counties reached a settlement for different kinds of cheating by Safeway, et al.
https://da.sonomacounty.ca.gov...

Who in those countries has $20 (presumably USD) per month for discretionary spending?

As a Californian I prefer Standard Time. The agony is: the time change means an extra hour out in the freezing dark (which might become permanent). And an "extra" hour of daylight at the end of the day doesn't do anything for me. I'd like to see an experimental run of PST for a couple years to see how bad it really is.

In an interview the BC premier said they'd been waiting to the US Pacific states to go DST, but since that needs action by Congress BC decided to stop waiting. WA and OR both have laws that go DST as soon as Congress authorizes. CA[lifornia] is ready, but requires a supermajority legislative vote. So if this Eternal Sunshine Act becomes law most and probably all US Pacific states will join BC in forever DST.

"If you try to drag an Edge window while the browser is opening a tab, you can't. That's because the application is responsible for that. On Unix systems this isn't a thing because the Window Manager is responsible."

My superficial understanding is that wayland goes the Windows way with applications implementing window controls themselves.

Even with an Xorg window manger I've seen firefox and evince come up unmanged without the borders and controls provided by fvwm, providing their own instead. Screws up things they don't understand like "stick" so I can move the window to a different page. Failed debugging lead to some sort of MOTIF_HINTS.

But when they did drop dead they didn't drop as far because they were shorter. Thank you, malnutrition.

Don't forget to power them up once in awhile.

And MLC instead of QLC or higher on the fresh-off-the-line offerings so once in use they should last longer and a stray alpha particle won't wipe out as many bits.

California has hundreds if not 1,240 cameras watching... ...the most densely populated areas. What happens in reality is that a fire gets called in by a human before a camera sees smoke. What does not seem to happen is putting cameras on every other transmission tower in unpopulated areas.

My most memorable subtitle WTF was also pre-AI, a documentary series about the American West via Prime. Don't even remember what it was (because that how my memory works), but it was a whole phrase phonetically substituted instead of select words.

Same reasoning applies to "toilet to tap" water systems. It's not that it cannot be done; everyone knows that eventually incompetence, laziness, or corruption will result in particles of shit in the drinking water.

Sort of. There are some patent like aspects to modern copyright. Let's see how it goes with ceoyoyo's Adventures at Hogwarts and Harry Potter moves to Las Vegas.

The most memorable part of Rings of Power was when Galadriel refers to someone in a convoluted way because the simple way would have referenced someone appearing in part of the canon that Amazon did not buy permission to use.

On the recent out-of-copyright topic someone pointed out that copyrights lapsed on various Betty Boop works for clerical reasons. So a court fight on a new Betty Boop work would be over whether the new work used the character from the works still under copyright or on public domain works, some of which are newer than those still under copyright.

...is that they watch Fox News so I don't have to.

Bill Maher is the one I think does news->comedy best. Too bad the bulk of it is hidden behind a premium paywall, so all I see are teasers on youtube.

Doh! That explains the lights from the cities along whatever coastline that was--it was night for them. A facepalm moment.