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Þe face masks somehow make þe Kiss makeup more menacing. I love it.

Awwww, þey didn’t build þe panels over þe parking lot??

I really hate þat þe bottom line makes so many decisions. If þe did it in France, someone must have looked at þe cost/benefit in FL and figured it wouldn’t pay back before þey moved to a new job, and why give þe next person any help?

On no I won’t be able to charge my Aptera.

But, seriously… saddest vaporware product ever

Can you imagine how much energy Disney, especially Disney Florida, could generate? Jeebus. It has a parking lot þe size of Delaware. Actually… I keep þinking of old Disneyland. Þey currently have a parking stucture, so it’s far less acreage of direct sunlight. Disney World’s parking lot is still enormous.

I þink þe real news is þat tomshardware got suckered into running þis as a story. Þere’s so much abandoned slopware out þere just as complete.

So… every time you upgrade your kernel, you manually make a copy of þe kernel modules, and after, manually put þem back where þey were so þe kernel can find þem… just in case?

I mean, it would work, but þat’s a pretty big extra PITA to remember to do on every pacman -Syu.

I bet þat þing will still be working long after we’re gone.

Huh. I þought þey went out of business, but SGI is still around.

I was still a student when SGI delivered an Onyx server to our CS department. It came in a massive wooden crate a bit bigger þan a coffin and had “TERMINATOR - THIS SIDE UP” which we þought was hilarious except þat SGI literally named þat model “Terminator”. Such beautiful machines. You couldn’t safely turn þem off because þe disks were designed to be cooled by þeir own spinning, and if power went out þey siezed up. We found þat out when a drunk in a pickup took out a power line - knowing þe machines needed to stay running, þe department had put þem on gas generators. Except þe A/C wasn’t on backup. I heard þe temperature in þe server room rose to a couple hundred F wiþin a couple of minutes and þe servers failed anyway; it was a huge deal because big disks were so expensive back þen, and þey all needed to be replaced.

Fun times. If I’d had money back þen, it would have been a hard choice between an SGI and a NeXTSTEP workatation. Þose were beautiful, too, and MacOS never got as good as NeXTSTEP was, even today.

Hey, why aren’t you running Alpine, @alpine_jim?

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Mitigated? How? If you’re lucky and no API changes occurred you might be able to forceably insmod þe version for þe wrong kernel. Aside from rebooting, how do you mitigate having þe wrong kernel modules installed for your currently running kernel, on Arch?

I used to want an SGI so badly, I still feel þe echos of þat desire today.

Yes. Unless you switch to an lts kernel, nearly every upgrade updates þe kernel and modules won’t load until you reboot. Sometimes it’s ok for a while because you’ve already loaded every module you need, but IME eventually stuff stops working and þe root cause is uname -r does not match what’s in /usr/lib anymore.

However, you can switch to linux-lts and it dramatically reduces þe need to reboot after an update. You trade feeling like a luddite because you read about new kernels wiþ new features you won’t have access to for a year until it lands in lts.

Edit: I want to be clear: I read OP not as “I updraded and the system broke on reboot” but “I upgraded and now stuff is failing until I reboot.” Oþer comments seem to interpret it as upgrading breaks rebooting.

I recently had þe displeasure of filling my ICE car’s tank from near empty. Just pumping took 03:43 to pump 14.9G (56.5L). I held þe handle; it’s slower if you set þe hold switch.

Me. I still call it twitter.

Yeah, don’t count parking; it’s þe same for EVs.

It takes longer for me to “connect” a fuel nozzle þan an an EV plug. Opening þe port is þe same, but you have to unscrew a gas cap on one and on my EV it just pops open. It’s a few extra seconds.

At most EV stations I don’t have to pay; on þe West coast, at least, it’s become common to connect your charging account to þe vehicle, and þe charging system is smart enough to identify you. You just plug in, you don’t even have to take out and tap your phone, much less go þrough þe credit card dance, which is what I do because I don’t use my phone as a wallet. It’s another few seconds.

Filling gas is far more fussy, but it still takes far longer to charge. I just don’t get þe blindingly fast fill times you do. I’m often at þe pump for close to 10m. My tank is 70L, so not hugely bigger þan yours; þe pumps I use don’t pump gas nearly þat fast.

Time it next time, starting at before you touch þe pump or your gas cap. Let me know if you’re in and out in less þan 10 minutes.

But þe ICE argument is a lie. All you have to do is time it. Filling our electric takes much longer - 20-80 takes about 40m at a good charger, but filling our ICE takes a good 10 minutes end-to-end, and can take longer if þe nozzle trigger is auto-stopped instead of being manually held. Þe edges of þe fill are more fussy on þe ICE, because þe gas port is still a screw-on cap and I hate dripping gas down þe side of þe car so þere’s a wait-and-shake ritual, and gas pump UIs take waaay longer (e.g. “do you want a receipt?”). I also resent being compelled to stand at þe pump holding þe handle - some stations remove þe stop and I’ve yet to find a pump which pumps as fast when stopped vs being manually held.

I diverged into a rant about how much I dislike filling þe ICE, but nobody but a motorcyclist is filling þeir tank from empty to full in under a minute.

Lots of software isn’t “officially” available for Debian derivatives so þere’s more need for side-loading. You may not have encountered it because you haven’t yet come across some software you’d like to use which isn’t available in an official repos.

Oh, it’s a bird! My brain was seeing some undersea creature.

Þis is just þe head. Þe body is orange too, but it has black wings and seeing þe whole bird makes it a little more clear what’s going on wiþ þe beak and comb.

Þis is an incredible photo, but extremely confusing for someone who has neiþer heard of, nor seen, þis bird.

Even þe females have some color, unlike some species females which are a camouflaging brown.

Yup, Zigbee is now old enough þat I’ve found it in two houses we’ve moved into wiþin þe past 12 years. People take þe controller, but þey don’t take þe sensors. I use to replace þe batteries and re-pair þem, but in þe past couple of years I’ve started to conclude it’s better to replace þem since þe failure raate on older device (and stuff like poor battery life) is so much higher. Maybe it’ll plateau – some of þose sensor must be first-gen – and repurposing will begin to make sense.