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I went as far as sourcing a SCSI drive with a dedicated card just to get results. Fond memories of clicking Burn and slowly backing away from the desk to let it do its thing.

I saw my friends doing that and stayed out of that game completely until Plextor released their first 8x burner -- the PR-820.

By then, it was all pretty well sorted despite that burner having no underrun protection.

The IBM Ultrastar 9ES drives kept it fed very well on that otherwise quite slow Slackware box.

Burn a CD, compile a kernel, and browse the web while watching some VCD rip of a music video in one corner of the screen? No problem.


How and why are license plates being tracked to children? That this is not the most twisted part of the story is insane. Just the fact that driving children to school has become so prevalent that ALPR is an effective tool should raise some questions. Is walkability so far gone in the public consciousness?


> Is walkability so far gone in the public consciousness?

Using transport to get to school isn't a new concept. School buses have been a thing forever.

If you can't understand why a parent would drive their kids to school in Chicago, you probably haven't experienced winter weather there.


What a bizarre comment. I'm Canadian, and during my misspent youth I spent time in Wisconsin and in Boston. I didn't drive in those places and I don't drive here.

I did finally cave recently and bought a cargo bike (not electric). I've used it during snowfalls. It's fine, just like walking in snow and/or in negative 30 degree weather is fine.


I'm in Canada, and I definitely experience winter. My child walks to school. Boots work far better in snow than four tires and a steel box.


Chicago public schools completely cut bus service during covid. Not sure if the suburbs did as well but it wouldnt surprise me. I lived 3 miles from my high school in the city and was one of maybe 5% of students who biked in the winter, it was pretty terrible. Suburban high schools have zero public transit access so the options are school bus(that might no longer exist), bike in the winter(terrible), or drive.


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That wasn't so bad compared to Xbox, I still don't know which Xbox is the latest one.


Xbox Series with X > S (so if you want the high end of the current generation you want the Xbox Series X; if you want mid-range things are more complicated because you can now get an Xbox One X, but not the Xbox One, used for much less than you'd get an Xbox Series S for and which one is "better" is a dice roll depending on the games you want to play and if 4K matters to you…)

Series is a real weird word to use there. But it also doesn't help that the versions are extra complicated because with "PC-like compatibility" in everything after the Xbox One playing just about the entire same library you need a bit of a matrix to figure out which is best for you if you don't care about the "latest and greatest".


After thoroughly reading your explanation I've decided to buy a new Xbox One!

Weirdly it only has 8GB of internal storage...


Oh wow yes, completely forgot about that one. To me, it's a complete blur made from single words and letters, one series x s one box 360? Maybe they should create a 365, with MS office pre-installed. Or something.

Compare that to Playstation: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.


Active Copilot.NET 365


Should we tack on an "XP" for good measure?


Xbox XP 360 365


Because you need to build a form for concrete, and to build the form after paving means you'd have to cut then patch that new asphalt, which will just end up forming potholes.


They might be happy that they can keep making V8s, but they have to know any future administration could easily outlaw any design that goes too far backwards. Such a car will also not be able to be sold anywhere else in the world. Heck, by the time they design, tool, and produce such a beast it could already be too late.


Well, just leave the catalytic converter out in the US variants of cars and pocket the difference. That's a far simpler change.

I don't want that, but given everything else that's going on, it wouldn't be a surprise.


Did you just create Pied Piper IRL?


I wonder if he uses spaces or tabs in his source code.


This is the state of friendship in the social media age.


Fortunately for the people in London and the UK, jaywalking is not illegal.


So replace it with some other mundane thing that technically might be illegal but which most people do and harms no one.


I suggest you read The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt. As much as it is damaging to adults, it's much more so to children in early development all the way through puberty.

https://www.anxiousgeneration.com/


I've jump-started my share of batteries this way. Such a deep discharge might affect lifespan but it's typically old devices we do this to anyway.


Cool. I have a modern (not smart) body weight scale and it regularly ruins this way at least one of the 3 GP NiMh rechargable AAA batteries I put in it, so I wanted to hear some ideas what could be done with them given they have been through only bunch of charge cycles.


If it runs on 3 AAAs you could also hotwire it to use 1 lithium ion (choosing a model with builtin protection).


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