Same here. What especially irritated me was that even though I installed the .deb firefox and followed the directions to disable snap firefox, occasionally Ubuntu went ahead and reinstalled snap firefox for me.

Marylanders worship their flag too, but as far as I’m aware, there’s no pledge of Maryland.

Yeah, if nothing else, standing up after sitting for so long is a good idea, even if you don’t sing or whatever.

And I say this as someone that dislikes baseball, and only occasionally goes to games because my wife likes them.

Someone on reddit commented: “We tried that here in Germany. It didn’t work out so well.” That comment always sticks with me.

I recall our class getting a lecture in high school one time because we “rushed through it” and were being very disrespectful to the veterans who gave their lives for this country. Uh, okay…

I’m in a club that has the word “International” in the name. Yet they do the pledge of allegiance before meetings…Uh is it really “x Club, International”, or is it “x Club, Murica!”? Most of our non-US members were Canadian, so I always wondered what they were thinking. “Smile and nod, boys…smile and nod…” would be my guess.

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Brightline. That’s the new one that keeps clobbering idiot Floridian drivers that insist they can beat the train.

But that doesn’t hold a candle to Amtrak’s coverage.

I was on the phone with our ISP after our internet service went out. The rep asked me if the box had a green light on it - yes - then asked me to plug a light into the same outlet and confirm the power was on. I said, “Look, I understand you have to follow a script, but you literally just asked me to confirm the power light on the box was on. Clearly the power is working.”

Same ISP sends me an email whenever we have a power outage letting me know that our internet might not work when the power is out. (I’ve joked that this email arrives before the ceiling fans have come to a stop.) But when my internet goes down, they’re completely clueless. “Ohhhh it must be that your power is out even though we monitor that closely and aren’t showing a power outage right now!”

Because I didn’t know it existed until now. :) I’ll have to look into that, thanks.

This is a tough one. The problem with local only backups is, what if there’s a fire?

I use Amazon Glacier to store my pictures. It’s $0.0036 / GB per month, so I pay less than $2/month for ~535 GB of storage that I’m using right now. There is also a cost for downloading, but if I need it, I’m going to be happy to pay it (and the costs aren’t crazy). Uploads are free.

(The other problem with Glacier is that it’s not really an end-user-friendly experience, nor is it something easily automated. I use SimpleAmazonGlacierUploader, a Java program someone wrote, to do it. You can also upload to S3 and have it archive things to Glacier automatically - I’ve never tried this but it should work.)

I considered getting my brother or a friend to build two storage servers (with RAID5 or something) that we’d each keep at home, and just sync to each other. Good if you have a friend or family member willing to do it (or at least host your offsite box). Down sides: Cost to build it, time to build and maintain it, cost to replace things that break, plus cost for electricity. I’ve been using Glacier for many years, so by now maybe I would have spent less on that theoretical backup system, but I also did not have to worry about it.

With Tasmota on the S31, you can disable the ability to turn it off. I have a few set up that way to prevent them from being turned off.

Yeah, this isn’t an ADHD meme, this is a “normal human behavior” meme.

Yeah, unfortunately, I do not have access to the BIOS, nor can I install things on it - security restrictions. What you have done would have been a lot easier and more reliable though!

This was already asked and answered. Maybe read before replying.

I’m not sure if it’s a dock dock or a big hub. It’s a USB-C connection, so maybe the latter. It’s definitely not one of the old style with the proprietary connector.

Yeah, I’ve seen some used Dell ones cheap. But then I might want to use it for my personal non-Dell laptop, and who knows how that will work.

The one I have came from Amazon 3 years ago, and it has worked perfectly. We’ve been full-time work from home in those three years, so it has gotten a good bit of use.

Nice.

My work one, yes. They want us to shut it down every night. I just suspend my personal laptop though.

Thanks. You have to set it up in YAML - there’s no GUI. Here’s the page on it. Obviously you need to know your adapter’s MAC, but that’s not usually too hard to find.

It sets up a switch entity, which is a little odd to me, because it’s not an on-and-off device - toggling it just triggers the WoL command. But I guess that makes the most sense; I don’t think there’s a “button” entity.

Edit: It does look like the entity can track the status of the computer, but it’s not working for me. Hostname is probably not correct.

All these comments, and I’m wondering who would ask someone about their height like this…it’s pretty easy to estimate someone’s height just by observation.

I hope so. The county I live in is extremely popular for cyclists - even in the dead of winter it’s not unusual to see people riding (sometimes I’m among them, but I have my limits). It seems like it’d be useful info for the county to have.