Yeah, I feel like the right has such a black-and-white/zero nuance view of things. So then the left goes and does the same thing!

My sense is that these A*AB movements are really trying to say, “the institution of X is fundamentally flawed,” and that’s something I agree with definitely. But it’s worded provocatively, which is just…assinine. Like, the little old lady who would be priced out of her home if not for renting out a room to a college kid, below market value? Yeah total bastard…

AFAIK in the USA you can’t have the main batteries be replaceable (I think an aux battery for wireless functions is allowed…).

EDIT: I seem to be thinking of California, maybe not all of US.

What country? AFAIK in the US you can’t make the batteries replaceable. If they are wirelessly linked they can have auxiliary batteries for that, but (I believe) that’s different than the main battery…

EDIT: I seem to be thinking of California, maybe not all of US.

with the ever present threat of hurricanes

That may be true for Florida, but that’s not really relevant for northern California/PNW/many, many other parts of the world…

If you can get to work on city streets, there’s a good chance you can bike or take public transportation. Nothing evil about that!

My company did it the right way — they gave us the day off.

Funding agencies have huge power here; demanding that research be published in OA journals is perhaps a good start (with limits on $ spent publishing, perhaps).

I hope them publicly advocating for this backfires spectacularly.

“First they game for gay marriage, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t gay. Then they came for the abortions, and I didn’t speak up because I didn’t need an abortion. Then they came for divorce, and…fuck, that might be a real a pain in the ass. Maybe I won’t vote for these asshats.”

— some people, hopefully…

Nah that’s an Audi. Toyota Corollas are indestructible AFAIK (ok, maybe a Saturn V could do some damage…).

We really need to see info from the BIOS — exact CPU model, RAM speed, etc.

As others have pointed out, this is a pretty anachronistic build — i586 with DDR1 is just weird, so it’s possible there’s some really niche hardware and you may need an exotic kernel (or kernel options) to get anything to boot.

That said: have you just tried running a standard live or install CD from that time period? You could try booting a 2001 Slackware installer to see what happens.

Especially “it’s” — it makes sense that “the thing that belongs to ‘it’” would be “it’s,” but of course, possession wrt pronouns is weird.

Is that for sure what happened? IIRC there was speculation about mechanical failure (lights we not out on ship, large plume of smoke…).

Though perhaps that doesn’t really matter as far as how much it sucks for the crew.

Whoa, I used Slackware for basically that same time frame (IBM — not Lenovo — ThinkPad 600e, which was pretty ancient even at the time). Good stuff!

I live in a very high CoL area, and the fact that you meet people in your neighborhood who are socioeconomically different — in large part due to very strong tenant protections — is really neat.

I think the thing is, at the top of a big corporation yeah they don’t care. But the boots on the ground people who apply for a DEI or outreach type job? My experience is that they absolutely do care.

I did bike to work one year. Big group of us all at different companies/school. We stopped at Oracle on the way, because they had a big bike to work party. Now, I suspect Larry E. doesn’t give a shit about me or my bike. But the people who put that on absolutely cared about the cause, about making people feel welcome, and overall, having a good time (I don’t/did not work for Oracle).

The corporation doesn’t care about you. But there might be some people who work there who do.

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“Discombobulated” is just a funny term for being confused, often in a humorous way. Which is kind of how many people feel after going through security and standing around with no socks, no belt, and you belongings all over the place.

Can you post the CPU info? I think it should be available from the BIOS.

Basically sounds like the Tesla game plan, which was super effective: roadster (which is purely a toy for the rich) and a little later the Model S (practical EV), and then introduce an affordable model.

This implies that eventually people will strap rusty boxes to their head though, so grain of salt with the analogy…

IIRC it’s the Milwaukee airport that has a “recombobulation area” immediately following security. I thought the self awareness was a nice touch.