i spent a number of years in south texas. yea, i missed it.. but i missed the northern summers more.
aside from the (singular) week's worth of cold and snow we've gotten, this past winter 'up north' has been more like the south texas winters i remember.
the legislation that needs to get passed, cannot, unless and until the house majority swings about 20 points the other way and the sliver of a majority in the senate is boosted by at least another 10.
tracking, ads, cookies, probably bot detection, too. they want it all running and enabled.
fuck 'em. on desktop, i just drag over the headline and search via right click menu for an alternate site that re-publishes nyt articles or has one that covers the same thing.
UFLPA Entity List - https://www.dhs.gov/uflpa-entity-list
they were placed on it last year. specifically, this section:
A list of entities working with the government of Xinjiang to recruit, transport, transfer, harbor or receive forced labor or Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, or members of other persecuted groups out of Xinjiang
recovery records are an essential feature for.... uh.... certain 'distribution methods' about which we are forbidden to speak of.
just add it to the pile
it took him hours to do this?
After attempting to sign in using [email protected] (for example) and inputting any old password string the installer pops up an error message saying “Oops, something went wrong.” Clicking the ‘Next’ button then allows you to add an offline user / password of your choice,
he's even dumber than i thought.
his head is so fucking swollen by his ego he can't even do a simple web search (which would have given the above workaround in a top result) or ask any of the three or four remaining on his IT staff for help.
don't forget to carry your No. 3 Robertson head non-slip screwdriver.
it's two-thirds of congress and three-quarters of the states.
but yea, that's the answer.
when i wanted bandwidth available 'elsewhere' (such as streaming or games on a different pc) but wanted to continue long transfers, used to neuter the lan adapter configuration on the system doing the transfers by setting it to 10baseT, full or half duplex for 10 or 5mbit max. that was back when my isp connection topped out at < 15mbit. i didn't always use a program or an addon that had rate limiting, and that was my 'solution'.
that's great. most of us are more than a billion dollars short of a billion.
wordpad gets kicked to the curb because microsoft thinks they can sell a few more office subscriptions if the most basic of word processors wasn't included with windows.
meanwhile. notepad, the basic text editor that lacks even the basic formatting features found in wordpad, gets the spellchecker users have wanted in wordpad since windows write for windows 1.0