put a catnip-laced toy in there somewhere.

hearing ice barbie every half hour now is already too much.

i have my boss’s old one here that’s pretty much only used for testing mobile web and for its camera. i use a ‘dumb’ phone, and its camera doesn’t work (was crap-tier anyway when it did). i think it has 10 on it. it doesn’t leave the office, doesn’t get used that much, and has no google account linked to it anymore since it was totally reset when it was replaced earlier in the year… the inability to use google play to install a few apps reduces its usefulness. i got f-droid on it but not everything is available from it.

it was at 50 percent in aug 2024’s survey… that last 15 percent to 65 took over a year to achieve.

the paid scam is 30usd for a year of extended updates.

(the first year only, i’m guessing… if they did it like win7, the price will ramp-up year 2 and again year 3).

They dropped 7, 8, and 8.1 at the same time, January 1st 2024

the actual ‘end of service’ dates for win7 (with the max 3 years esu) and 8/8.1 all occurred during the first half of 2023… so they gave a whole six months of extra life on those versions.

beginning??

have you been in a coma the last nine years?

if that’s all you need it to do: browser, kitra, libreoffice and not much else… any mainstream distribution will work.

fedora’s ‘atomic’ distributions tick your boxes. minimal terminal exposure, hard to break, and infrequent demands of user password.

silverblue (gnome) or kinoite (kde). kde is a traditional desktop experience, but gnome would be excellent for your rather basic set-up.

little beau peep

as if that’s all it took to lower prices. companies are gonna look at this as ‘free profit’ and keep them high, pocketing the ‘savings’ for as long as they can.

rotisserie chickens are bred for that purpose and their lives are cut short to meet the cost and weight targets of the largest customers (walmart, etc), which means the facilities can produce ‘more’ in the same amount of time than roasters. they cost $6-10 here and $5-6 on sale (higher $ is at the regional convenience store chain, lower is wm), and i can frequently find ‘old’ ones in the cooler at wm marked down to $2 (yea, just two bucks each).

roasters are larger, priced by weight, and usually cost more (per bird) than rotisserie chicken. here, they’re $10-12 at wm, $15 and up at the ‘local’ grocery store. they’re rarely on sale.

and some are, apparently, obscure af:

“an issue with decoding LucasArts Smush codec, specifically the first 10-20 frames of Rebel Assault 2, a game from 1995.”

not shown: the small hose that ‘naturally’ refills the jacket.

tgt’s last quarterly loss (negative net income) was over a decade ago, and it was just one quarter.

relish from the grocery store has gotten so cheaply made you have to strain it first. even, and especially, the mass market ‘name brands’. i did run across one super off-brand, imported from turkey or india or something, that was great, though… and like half the store brand price.

so unless i have that or strain the ‘regular’ stuff first, or just cut-up some pickles instead (what i’ve been doing more of lately), the relish goes on top. everything else goes on first.

that’s exactly the goal of the program.

there’s something like one grocery store per 1500 residents in new york (far more, per capita, than my entire county).

many residents have multiple options nearby, but some (around 750,000) do not live within 5 blocks of even just one. those are the neighborhoods this program would target.

these city-run stores are not intended to serve ‘everybody’, just those who aren’t served by anything.

wubi was the old ‘install along side windows’ installer for ubuntu. i used it for awhile before moving linux to dedicated hardware.

edit: note that wubi has been undeveloped and unsupported for years. the closest thing i’ve run across lately is endless os. i use a base endless os installed like this on one of my systems.

focusing on food deserts, or areas with limited access to full-service supermarkets,

he isn’t out to take on the competition to ‘drive down’ prices, but rather to serve neighborhoods that have no stores…where you have to walk a half hour just to get a carton of milk and a loaf of bread.

the form itself is easy, it’s the bot detection and spam prevention that’s hard. on my own sites, i’ve given-in and use the highest-level recaptcha, a hidden form field triggered by bots but not humans, and a server-side script for the mailing that also has some spam detection routines. they still get through, but far less often than a naked form would.

if you’re satisfied with your existing comments function, can you simply enable comments on your ‘contact’ page and hide them from public view?

the data collection is all but expected these days… what should be the headline is the remote kill switch the manufacturer used on the guy’s device… repeatedly.