Critical condition support.

I used to do that at the Burger King that was next to my old house. I’d prop my laptop up by the window the faced the restaurant and start downloading.

Then at some point they added something to the WiFi that, after you’ve been connected for like 30 minutes, disconnects you. You wouldn’t be banned or anything, it would just cut the connection until you go back to the captive portal and click “I Agree” again.

I feel like a lot of public WiFis these days have data caps and throttling to circumvent downloading.

I love the aesthetics and ambiance of Christmas. Warm colorful lights and decorations. The festive feeling and using reefs and such to bring color to an otherwise horribly gray and depressing season.

My city in the past few years started leaving lights up in the main park through February. Like they’d take down the Jesus/Santa stuff after the 25th, but leave the basic light strings up. Their reasoning is to keep a festive atmosphere during the drab winter.

A “vegetable” is simply any edible part of a plant. Fruits can therefore be considered a subcategory of vegetables.

If you really want to get into the nitty gritty, an ear of corn is botanically a fruit, since it’s the seed-bearing body of a plant. But nobody in their right mind would consider corn a fruit.

Florida is also densely populated compared to other similarly sized states, around 135 people per km² (US average is about 37/km²)

Why do people do shit like this lmao. I mean I know gas stations gouge the hell out of you to use the air compressor but using FAF to top off your tires is… an interesting way around it.

I’m surprised they could even put anything in the tire even after the first treatment. FAF by its nature seals holes, and usually the valve stem gets clogged as a result.

I can’t imagine it being good for your wheel balance either. But if the ride is smooth then it should be good.

Auto mechanics hate Fix-a-Flat. I speak from firsthand experience taking off a tire that was full of the stuff.

In my first field IT job, I had to use a dock that had a parallel printer port that we used to configure and troubleshoot the ancient line printers the company was still using. Those docks barely lasted a year and they would just straight up quit working no matter what computer you plugged them into.

You mean plutonium doesn’t look like a vial of cherry flavored cough syrup suspended in a larger vial of water?

That’s what I was thinking. Could be that or a tray for an internal ATA drive.

Ah, so that’s why AT&T stopped fiber upgrades in my town in 2022 or last year. Which is disappointing to say the least, and I live on a main road too.

Hopefully this won’t lead to Spectrum (my current provider) shuffling their feet on implementing high split service, now that their main competitor is opting for inferior 5G home internet for half their customers. High split would allow for symmetrical upload/download and faster than gigabit speeds.

Maybe something like this but fatal?

I’m guessing it was some kind of astrology thing. People used to blame deaths on planets and stars being in certain areas of the sky.

I need to get back into OSM. Pokemon Go was the reason I initially started contributing. The game uses (used?) OSM map data, and certain Pokemons will spawn near certain biomes (water, woods, etc).

My little cousin played the hell out of PG around 2017-2018, and they mostly played it around the big park in our town. At the time, the park appeared on OSM (and by extension PG) as a featureless green polygon with a few roads and footpaths. In reality it has a bunch of woods, streams, a pond, playground, public pool etc. So I did a quick readup on how to add stuff to OSM and I gave the park a digital makeover. I even walked around the footpaths with my phone and marked them out with the GPS so that they would appear in the map more accurately.

Unfortunately it was quite a while before Pokemon Go updated its OSM database, and my cousin lost interest in the game by then. But I kept at contributing for quite a few years, adding random stuff in spurts and stopping for a month or two

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I have Batocera (Linux-based emulator platform) on a 2011 Mac Mini.

The only caveat is its weak integrated graphics chip that struggles to emulate fifth generation (PSX, N64, etc) and newer consoles, but since I pretty much only play 16 bit and older it’s been a solid machine.

I remember when Apple first switched to using Intel processors, people talked about being able to install Linux and other operating systems easily. I guess Apple didn’t like that.

There are still cars that come with incandescent bulbs. I own a 3 year old base model Civic and it still has regular light bulbs in the headlights and tail lights.

My city has a rail station right in front of the stadium and barely anyone uses it, not even during big games/events.