i haven’t had need to do that in a number of years, but apparently that no longer works.

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/microsoft-kills-loophole-that-let-windows-7-keys-activate-windows-11-and-10

if no one in the family wants any of it… check with the local (where she lived or was from) public library (ours has a history room and a genealogy research room) and with a local museum or historical society (we have one of those too).

bandwidth at the scale of a large isp costs one to a few pennies per megabit/sec per month to deliver.

you can download about 325 gigabytes in a month with 1 megabit/sec speed.

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parents were egg beaters

for state or local restrictions, they’ll just build elsewhere. as far as nationwide–very unlikely that anything happens. controlling congress don’t mean jack unless you also have the white house, or it’s a super majority that can tell an ‘uncooperative’ president ‘fuck you, we’re overriding your vetoes’.

schools need owned, self-hosted solutions to all the fucking commercial shit they buy and subscribe to ‘on behalf of’ their students and faculty.

this is also altering faces and mouth movements to match the new spoken words.

if i’m at home… i just cut 'em in half and peel from the cut. often i just want half anyway, and an unpeeled half banana will keep for awhile.

when those types of wrappers were first introduced to things like mass market candy bars, some of them had instructions printed on them… ‘tear here’ with an arrow and such.

tl;dr: safe to skip.

go look again. and make sure you’re looking at 1x4gb or 2x4gb kits, not bullshit with 2x2 or 4x1 like they so often end up being. 2gb modules are 10usd or less, cuz nobody wants them for upgrading. but ddr2 sodimm 4gb modules are 30-40usd each. that’s today, tomorrow? who tf knows but it won’t be less.

for all we know cisco was paid to make this announcement to inflate ‘ai’ valuations and IPOs, and there’s no actual intent for cisco to all in on a solo dev’s ‘ai’ rewrite.

that would be like debian going from their tried-and-true two year cadence to letting claude do everything and release whenever it spits something out.

if you’re already invested in apple devices, icloud for email is definitely worth the look. it’s often overlooked for that; hell, a lot of apple users don’t even realize it can do email.

i can’t get mail from some places to mailfence. sending is fine. no errors with the connection. no bounces. senders have looked at their logs, they’re fine. mail is sent. it is received. mailfence just loses it somewhere before it makes it to my inbox and they won’t help with anything at all. so i gave up with them.

it may not be “beautiful” by what passes as “modern design” but i think it’s great, just the way it is. it’s the modern full page “responsive” scroll til you die shit designed for small screens that suck ass.

cancel 'em harder next time.

dad bailed on us for good that winter. left mom and us kids with nothing. he spent several years globe-trotting with his flavor-of-the-month mistress.

prepping for the ipo is when it really started to go to shit and it’s been a non-stop shower since.