How about today’s, random complete freeze. Had to hard reboot then spend 30 minutes watching it trying to “fix the issue”. It then failed to find anything. So I had to force it to reboot to windows. Then it worked fine the rest of the day.

While it was down, I was working on my 11 year old, budget laptop running Mint.

My work truck looks like this most days. I spent 4-6 hours per day driving in remote areas/off-road.

I have more sensitive gear and equipment I need for my job in the back seat The bed is also usually full of equipment that is not as sensitive.

I keep a cooler full of water and several boxes of granola bars inside.

So whenever I fill up the tank, I spend a few minutes tossing trash out of the truck. It’s the only way I have found to keep the pile of mess somewhat under control.

Once I year I clear out the truck and have it detailed to start fresh on the dirt buildup.

From what I understand it represents a change in strategy for Russia. They used to drive in a column of armor with a ton of APC’s/tanks drop off a mass of infantry in a group. Ukraine figured out how to turn these columns into a series of smoking ruins and dead/wounded infantry.

Russia has burned through its massive stockpiles of armor. The storage bases are empty. So they are using the armor they have conservatively. They can only use what their industry can produce from new anymore.

Russia is sneaking troops around in small groups at night or when the weather downs drones. Ukraine then has to detect and eliminate them. It’s slower wok.

I disabled it as soon as they were launched. I also disabled the quick reply, reactions, and to text messages etc.

Yep I did it. There is still some annoying bits of it floating around that you can’t get rid of.

The phones in the midrange are getting to be better than the top end ones in my opinion. Decent enough build quality for the phone to last 3-4 years. Expensive enough that the bloatware is reduced. If the company does do a modified launcher it’s generally pretty clean.

I am liking the OnePlus 13R I picked up. Stable UI, decent battery life, and not a bad price. The stock launcher does a pretty decent job.

For my work phone I have a Pixel 8. I really regret buying it. I had to disable 30 different bloatware apps. Plus I have 4 apps that I have rejected all updates because they can’t be disabled. I also installed a launcher because the stock pixel UI is trash. The hardware is solid and works well once you clear out the buggy bloatware

Apple made a major fuckup with IOS26. I upgraded my iPad and felt nauseous from the blur effect almost instantly. I can’t completely get rid of it, just make it less horrific. Their “new” multitasking options I am not even bothering to turn on or try to use yet. This is like their 10th edition of multitasking. Let’s see if they get it right this time. Then I will bother to learn their “simple” process that usually involves having to read a manual and remember half a dozen new commands. Fuck it still takes me 2 or 3 attempts to get the the home screen without a button.

Almost there…

A small cordless drill with a torque setting plus a driver set. A short flexible bit holder for the tight spots.

Drop the torque setting all the way down then use the drill for most of the work. Then finish tightening with a reacheting screwdriver.

On a smoke break. Permanently.

The lesser known history:

Gordy was moved up to an assistant to the upper echelons in 1958. This was right at the time Henry Moyle almost bankrupted the cult with massively overspending on building construction. Combined with the Baseball Baptism scandal they need somebody for damage control.

Gordy was a journalist by training who excelled at propaganda. He was a master of the craft. He buried the baseball baptism scandal and hid the financial records. For this in 1962 he was promoted up.

He was likely heavily involved in hiding the rampant sexual abuse issues in the cult. Hiding and flat out lying about how how much money the cult had amassed and excelled at being the slimy smiling bastard distracting everyone from the facts.

Gordy was anextremely successful liar. He was responsible for the majority of the massive hoarding of wealth.

He’s a fucking amateur compared to the experts.

Mormons have hundreds of billions.

Assuming human intelligence naturally follows a normal distribution model plus add in confounding factors like: malnutrition, chemicals, abuse, etc. that are known to degrade human reasoning. Reasoning is further restricted by limiting access to education and extensive false propaganda. These factors flattens and shift the distribution curve to the left.

The millions of people who voted for him are morons what are easily manipulated by their ignorance and fear.

This has always been the Achilles heal of a democratic systems.

How about the Citric Acid Cycle then?

Lead arsenate was a very common pesticides for decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_hydrogen_arsenate

I always like to look up what they hit.

“CDU-4 processing unit”

One of the Crude Distillation Units - aka the first step in the processes of the distillery. Destroying it takes down the entire line.

I am guessing the “-4” is the number as most large refineries have several CDU’s.

That’s a really impressive shot by the long distance drone team.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(journal)

I probably should work on getting the bush type plant mutant into the giant pumpkin germplasm again.

The first tests were had a 400lb pumpkin into a 8’x8’ plot. They split and cracked however.

Here’s my uneducated guess on the subject.

There is only so much reserve equipment that the utility services can keep in stock. So it doesn’t really matter where the first wave of attacks hit, as long as it does extensive damage that draws down the stocked up supplies. Russia is forced to use up the stock to get the power back on to the affected regions.

Then hitting the better defended locations in the Moscow/St. Petersburg become a several week/months blackout instead of a minor inconvenience of a few hours or days.

If the regions hit are also areas for refineries and equipment manufacturing for the war it’s a continuation of infrastructure degradation not terror bombing like the Russians are doing.

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/62829

Two major explosions caused by safety violations in a week. Nothing to see hear guys.

In my area the self checkout systems at the grocery store often fritz out an don’t register the item. This is even after they beep. It’s truly wonderful. I consistently get 50% or more of the items in my cart for free. Nothing they can do to me either. They have me on video scanning every item. If their system buggers up the total it’s on them.

If they want somebody to catch computer errors then there’s a thing called “pay a employee.”