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I’m not sure if it works the same way, but Google Wallet uses a virtual card number as well as needing the phone unlocked. There a layer of obfuscation over using a contactless card, that I like.

Sorry if I came across like that (I still think 3½ jobs is too many just for a roof and food, but maybe that’s normal for America - for a European, it sounds insane). That’s a shitty situation to be in and I feel for you. The US sucks right now, unfortunately the only two options are to move to a country (or at least state - seriously, what sort of law is that? I sort of understand where it could come from but it makes no sense) which doesn’t persecute trans people, or ride it out and hope the next administration reverses all the terrible things that lunatic has done. The first is expensive and the second isn’t great either. I hope your situation improves.

Three and a half jobs… Obviously I don’t know the full situation but you must be living well outside your means. Whatever money sinks you have, get rid of them if you can. Nobody should need to work three or more jobs. I’d argue nobody even needs to work two jobs but sometimes it’s unavoidable or one is a personal project which wouldn’t be possible without income from the other.

Sort your finances out so you can work less and you’ll be happier.

I like the comparison with the 1972 image:

The old one looks like the colour has been turned up too high. The new one is a lot more natural.

There are a few petrol shortages in the UK I believe, but that’s mostly people panic buying. I have an EV so doesn’t affect me!

Thanks, I don’t think there was a link in the article. I’ll edit it into the description.

With my own money, it would have been some ZX Spectrum budget title. I clearly remember Fantasy World Dizzy being mine and I think I bought it with my own money rather than it being purchased for me, so I’m going to go with that.

The “it’s twelve o’clock somewhere” beer.

Who needs Q, Z and, erm, A, anyway? Nobody!

Yeah, it’s a Canon scanner (can’t remember the model of the top of my head), a lot of the listings I saw for it were missing the APS part so maybe it was an optional extra?

They are mounted in the scanner cartridge and then the scanner takes care of advancing through them - or maybe it was manual. I can’t remember now!

I had more rolls of APS than I thought, quite cool as you get the full frame rather than what was selected on the camera, so you see bits that were hidden for years.

Edit fs2710 - just looked in the metadata!

I did the same with my own photos during the lockdown years. Started by scanning physical photos, then got hold of any old negative scanner which supported APS. I’ve scanned everything except I seem to be missing one of my APS negative cartridges. I now can’t get rid of my negative scanner because I know I’ll find that missing cartridge as soon as I do. I also can’t do much with the old PC as it’s the only full size one which will take the SCSI card that I have.

I bought some old computer speakers from a local charity shop - £1.50 without an adaptor (or maybe it has a European adaptor - can’t remember). Didn’t notice until I got it home. Looked in my box … Oh, that’s exactly the right one. Done!

I watch for the plot.

10 x 196 = 1960

It’s 18 times higher.

Assuming the graph in the preview has anything to do with the article which I didn’t read.

I was going to suggest Cara. It doesn’t require you to use nightshade, that’s your choice as far as I can tell.

I AM HUMAN. I ASSIGNED MYSELF THIS USERNAME AS PROOF.

We found Nemo!

I only like the old style earphones that sit in the ear. Those bottom ones look way too bulky to be comfortable or not fall out, and the silicone tip ones - sod stuffing something like that in my ear.

I currently own the Sennheiser MX365 (looks like the MX375 is the updated and still available version) and they are great!

In the interests of Linux commands generally being short abbreviations, I suggest “pls”.