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  • That every other version thing hasn't been true for a while now. Every version after Windows 7 has been terrible.

  • This isn't even the first time this has happened. Soybean farmers already got screwed over as a result of one of Trump's trade wars way back in 2018 during his first term. Anyone who voted for Trump again expecting anything different is an idiot.

  • I would say you're looking for Texmex cuisine, which is the Americanized version of Mexican food that's heavy with the cheeses and sauces, and Sino-American cuisine, which is the Americanized Chinese food and also includes things like fortune cookies which are most definitely not Chinese in origin.

    Though I might just say "American" cuisine as that would include those things, and also very American foods like pizza, hamburgers, and hot dogs.

  • To me, Fahrenheit is a lot like inches and feet for carpentry. As in it's fine for things like describing the weather and setting my house's thermostat. It mostly falls apart for must other things, though it's still okay for cooking and baking. From a scientific perspective, any temperature scale that isn't zero at absolute zero is nonsense, so it's pretty much Kelvin or bust.

  • I'd assume that if we are ever communicating with aliens and trying to figure out each other's way of expressing numbers and doing math, dimensionless constants like pi, Euler's number (e), the fine structure constant, etc. will be important first steps. As you say, our units of measure are purely human inventions. But the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter is the same no matter what units you use to make the measurement.

  • Another fun one is to ask someone if they were to take off in an airplane from Miami and fly due south, which South American countries would they fly over?

    The answer is none of them. You end up missing the entire continent because you are too far west.

  • We easily produce enough food to feed everyone with our current technology level. Making it free and available to everyone is mostly a logistics and economic problem.

  • Along somewhat similar lines, I wouldn't mind a fan that monitored my temperature while sleeping and adjusts its speed accordingly.

  • Not really. The pieces are already in place with UEFI and Secure Boot. All that would need to happen would be to force Secure Boot to be enabled, and only preload keys for an approved list of operating systems. With that, your fancy new motherboard may not be able to boot and run the OS of your choice.

  • In Minnesota, we don't have smog checks or inspections. Furthermore, the registration tax for any vehicle 10 years or older is a fixed $30 no matter what the vehicle is actually worth. So if you have a old collector car, getting collector plates for it saves you like $25 a year versus just getting normal plates for it. So it's not uncommon at all to see collector cars running around with standard MN plates, since the added cost is minimal and you don't have to deal with the restrictions.

  • That's my main memory of Cracker Barrel. It was a place we'd sometimes stop and eat at when I was a kid during the family road trips. In that sense, I have some good memories associated with them, but I'm not particularly nostalgic for the brand and I've not been to one in years.

  • My main problem with the current crop of Linux phones is, or at least it's my impression - is that they still struggle with the basic phone part. As in network connectivity (at least in the US), making and receiving calls, SMS & MMS, and VoLTE support. If there's a Linux phone where that stuff is solid and works, I'd buy one. I don't really care about the whole app ecosystem - I barely have any apps on my Android phone now.

  • That's also why they tend to have cellular modems that have poor support for US frequencies.

  • Interesting. I've not heard of FuriOS, but if it is a Linux phone that actually can be used with US carriers, makes calls and supports SMS/MMS, and can do VoLTE that's a actually a pretty big deal.

  • While pretty neat, I'd have a hard time even calling the WiPhone a phone if it doesn't have a cellular modem. You're entirely dependent on having a wifi connection. I suppose it could serve as a replacement for a landline, but that's about it.

  • And even before that, vans were also classified as light trucks. Hence the reason the minivan, classified as a truck, took over as the default family vehicle in the mid-late 80's and station wagons, which had to abide by car rules, just couldn't compete.

  • Electricity would be tempting. If you have access to water, you can boil it to make it safe. Run a refrigerator to store food. A convenient source of heat for cooking. Stay warm in the winter, stay cool in the summer. Lights for when it's dark. Use power tools to build things. Listen to music, watch movies, play those old Nintendo games.

    Even after some time when your electronics break down and scavenging working ones gets tough, it's not difficult to build things like simple resistive heaters. Making crude incandescent light bulbs wouldn't be impossible either.

  • I've got a directory like that on my computer, nested under a couple of /old_computer directories. At some point in the early 2000's I switched to a system of (still not so well named) full albums as hard drive sizes increased and internet connections got faster, leaving the old original directory of one-offs from the dialup days to wither.

    My favorite part is the New Music directory where I stick new stuff I obtain until I give it a listen to it make sure that 1) it's something I actually want to keep and 2) whether there is any quality issues with the encoding. There's stuff in there with timestamps from like 2002. Yeah, I'm still planning to check that out....someday....

  • Chevy still makes a regular cab, 8' bed version of the Silverado in the entry-level "WT" (work truck) trim, which at least theoretically is available to non-fleet buyers. Good luck finding one though.