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Really, you're going to go with "papers, please" ?

ICE is on record of requesting ID from _children_. I don't know if you're a parent, but my kids didn't carry ID until they were nearly adults. That's okay, though, because they're white. I don't like bringing race into this, but we're not seeing ICE ask white people for their passports.

I don't have a problem weeding out dangerous criminals, but flagging someone who had a parking ticket a decade ago is wrong. Additionally, removing TPS from groups and then subsequently deporting them up is wrong. Arresting individuals and deporting them when they are going through the proper legal avenues to become citizens is wrong.

How soon until other "undesirables" are targeted?

Did you carry proof of citizenship as a child? Do you carry it today? I don't, as my license is not a "real id" yet. They could scoop me up as I walk into Home Depot and send me off to god knows where tomorrow.

Put the bulb on. That suggests warmth.

Everything that I learned about energy in Scotland comes from Still Game, so I must ask -- how many bars?

They recently added a bottom dock option, and I was very happy to have that back.

It's fine, and it works. I have a Pixel, though, and there's no way to disable the google search box on the homescreen. I will never use the search box, yet it dominates a good portion of my screen.

I switched to Smart Launcher Pro, and it seems to scratch the same itch. It was more expensive, though.

Nova carried me for almost a decade, and I'll miss it.

Right, and they're blending two things together -- group chats and public forums. I'm sad about losing the public forums.

I guess that depends on the University and whether or not you get to keep your email address after you graduate. From what I understand from my college-aged kids, most people get kicked out of the hub after they graduate.

It's similar in Apple's strategy of trying to get Macintosh into the classrooms (in the 80s/90s), and student discounts on Adobe products.

I am not a huge fan of Discord, although I do use it. It's very good at what it does, and the communities it houses are well moderated, at least the ones that I have joined. I dislike that they've taken over communities and walled them off from the "searchable" internet.

Nope, that's exactly what I meant. That requirement just means that they have to check a box which says that they're 13 or older. Surely no child would ever break the rules, right?

Yes. Whatsapp requires a phone number and Discord does not. The tweens who do not have a phone yet can join Discord with their siblings / friends.

The other part of this is that Discord has official University hubs, so the college kids are all in there. You need an email address from that Univeristy to join: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/4406046651927-...

It's been a good car. Maintenance, so far, has been tire rotations and wiper fluid.

Equinox EV. Now that the tax credits have expired it is a different story.

The 2025 gas version's MSRP was about 30k, and the electric one was about 35k with a $7500 tax credit.

Obviously this is slanted by tax credits, but the EV that I have shares a name with the existing gas model and was less expensive.

EVs aren't for everything, but mine fits my use case perfectly.

Ha, they actually messed up a bit and I had to repair a bit of the wall / wainscoting. Because of this they knocked $100 off of the price that I listed earlier.

It took him maybe two hours to run the wire.

This wasn't replacing outlets, I do those myself. This was moving a receptacle four feet to the left and doing it through a finished basement.

2019 prices, but it was $487 to move a receptacle from under a window to the left of the window prior to making that window opening a french door.

In 2025 it was $1,100 to have an EVSE put in, including permit fees.

I'm in Pennsylvania.

Working with my township to get a permit / inspection was horrible -- they dragged their feet for months!

I have to believe that I am one of a few people in my township who have done this the "right way".

I don't know a single person on it either (USA), but it's not exactly something that people talk about. I am naturally quite thin, as is the rest of my family, but there's certainly no shortage of hefty people here.

I'm guessing that the Chinese OEM bought them partially for the name itself, but mostly for their patents.

It's a little too late now, no?

I wonder if they fell into a sunk cost fallacy with their camera-based approach.

I have one, and specifically got one without a camera because I don't want that driving around my house. The first time it went through I made sure to stow cables and such, and I do a quick walk-through to make sure that none of the cats have barfed and that there's no obvious obstacles before I release the hypnodrone.

It still saves me time, which was the reason that I bought it in the first place.

You can turn them off, but the start menu definitely shows you "recommended" content by default.

They are, but a selling point at the time was that you could buy replacement parts from System76.

I went that route. The OEM is no longer making the part, and it is not stocked anywhere.

Right, I went down that route as well:

> The hardware supplier that we use no longer has the battery. Therefore, we cannot sell you the battery. What we can do is provide you with the part numbers so you can source it elsewhere. If you're considering sourcing the battery for the Darter Pro 5 from another supplier, please note that the model number for the battery is N150BAT-4, and the original part number is 6-87-N15ZS-51E01. Third-party battery sellers may display one or both of these numbers and might also list other compatible part numbers that are suitable for the same model.

It's actually a Darter Pro 6, but the battery part number is correct in that text.

You can not purchase this battery, it no longer exists. There are a few sketchy websites which say that they sell it, but they will cancel your order a few days after placing it and tell you that there is "lack of material".

Yes, I went down the clevo path as well. No dice, it does not exist.

I found a few which said "in stock" but was refunded each time as the part didn't actually exist.

I noticed that the battery properties (voltage, etc) were uncommon, as I considered other batteries that would physically fit within the available space.

At the end of the day it's probably worth replacing it with something that probably won't burn my house down.

I almost pulled the trigger on a mini PC over the summer, but said "the laptop still works, you don't really need this" and now it would be 30 or 40% more because of ddr5 and NVMe cost spikes.

It's not a money thing, it's the principal of it.

I was in it to support the company and their goals, but the experience was a little souring.

I was hoping that this is how it would work for System76 -- when I bought the laptop they sold replacement batteries. Five years later I find myself needing a battery and they are unavailable -- not on System76's website, not online, nowhere. My only option is to either replace the laptop or buy a used one and take the battery from that, hoping that it's good.

For the last six months I've just been using a laptop as a mini pc with no battery.

I transpiled the runtime into wasm and made an interactive shell: https://thecatbutt.com/lua/

I've used the "Waste an element" one for ages on microcontrollers where I don't want to deal with the overhead in an ISR.