someone’s never played q-bert or the sims

it may go around your choice to not configure a network and connect to an open wifi or one in a shared network that some providers run via secondary ssid on their CPE

for a couple years during covid, they didn’t even do behind-the-wheel driving tests here, even for new drivers

stay away, far away, from anything elon muskrat is funding or promoting.

instead go to the source. your state. states and local governments are responsible for administration of elections, even ‘national’ races like for president.

ballotpedia is part of a 501c3 non-profit based in wisconsin. this is their list of links to each state’s voter registration web site:

https://ballotpedia.org/List_of_official_voter_registration_websites_by_state

i just pick a folder or an existing playlist and hit random. but the best things for me because they help mask noises (yes, the ones in my head mainly) are musicals (such as annie) or movies with lots of background music (disney movies are good for this) or old-school multi-camera sitcoms for the laugh track (newhart, mary tyler moore, patty duke, etc)… the other common thing between them is it’s all stuff i’ve watched a lot so it’s very familiar. if it isn’t–i’m more apt to try to watch than to doze off.

if a device manufacturer is so hell bent on their devices phoning home that they’ll connect to an insecure wifi or a wifi network run by a ‘partner’ provider… they’re gonna be doing that whenever it can’t phone home via a configured network connection, too, and not just when there isn’t one set up.

some not only require the internet, but also an online account to link to.

in some neighborhoods, you could literally have a cart corral next to every single parking space and somehow these lazy morons will still leave their cart in a parking space or driving lane.

some months that ‘fee’ is more than my actual usage billing… and that’s without any solar or other ‘green’ improvements.

in the 1000s of laptops i’ve worked on over the last 30 years, i’ve never once tore one apart specifically to swap thermal compound, never needed to. only gets redone if the heatsink assembly needs to come out in order to get at the fan or some other part inside.

they must use the same glue to hold the wheels on as they do the side panels and bumpers.

new mexico just got shaded a darker blue on every future political map.

8 hours to pay the landlord, 8 hours to pay the other bills, 8 hours for everything else

it may be a ‘reunified’ state, but the divide between the former east and west germany is very much still apparent in many, if not most, maps that outline pretty much any demographic.

it didn’t take long for search engines, including google, to pick up wiki.warframe.com though, as it was just a sub off an existing and long-standing domain… the hard part was getting pages on the new address to rank higher than the old one that fandom won’t delete.

what you should do for any wiki is add the wiki’s search as a search engine in your browser. firefox makes it easy to do. just go to the wiki (i.e. wiki.warframe.com), right-click in the search box on that page, choose ‘add search engine’. add a ‘keyword’ to make searching it easy (e.g. wf), so now all you have to do to search the warframe wiki is type in firefox’s address box, example: wf void trader

it’s “better” for all the fucking cameras everywhere.

our public utility used to include reports from regular testing in with the bills… they make them available online now (cost saving, it was a specially-printed multi-page insert before), but it’s still public information.

at their peak, the auto skip didn’t even exist… just the manually-activated 30-sec skip that you had to enable yourself like a cheat code in a video game.

replaytv got sued out of existence due to the same basic functionality. dish’s hopper still exists but i think they made a deal with the networks (we won’t sue you if you delay the feature for a number of hours).

the networks will sue as soon as tivo makes it a specific line item on a bill for the specific feature of automatically skipping commercial breaks. and that’s on top of subscribers leaving due to the rug pull… but where tf they gonna go? alternatives kinda suck and are not as easy to set up or use.

little canada, minnesota.

how much of that is a ‘royalty’ payment to dipshit grifter-in-chief?