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I think my backpack technically counts as a personal item as it'll fit underneath the seat in front of me, even on tiny little sardine-can jets like the Mitsubishi CRJ900. I wonder if that means I could take a smaller suitcase as a carry on if I can pack some clothes in the backpack too.

I got rerouted twice more. Eventually my way home ended up being YOW->YUL->ATL->PNS. I got lucky -- apparently they practically shut down YOW not long after I got out, something about another round of winter storms. I made it home Saturday night around 1 in the morning. Delta lost my suitcase...

I don't travel to travel, so when things unraveled between us when we finally met in person after ten minutes... yeah. I just want to be at home in my own bed.

I meant that particular winget command you put in, with the ID or whatever it is -- sorry, I actually haven't ever used winget.

Well. To give you an idea of how that went, I'm going back home on the first flight out, which is tomorrow morning.

You can also just do wsreset -i to install the store. Takes a couple seconds and it's easier than the winget command to remember -- then again, I'm not sure if that winget installs the store or the Terminal you were talking about.

See, I wouldn't have bothered either, but she doesn't live in Ottawa, she lives an hour outside it, and she doesn't have her own car.

Yeah, I was at ORD. Well, I left on time this morning and got here on time, but I was pulled aside for extra screening in customs I think -- I declared the laptop I was bringing up for my girlfriend, but apparently I did my math wrong and should have also claimed the figure I got her -- but it...

That was one of the most miserable nights I think I've ever had in a hotel, and I'm hesitant to say it's entirely their fault. I'm one of those people that need a fan blowing in their face overnight, both for airflow and for noise, and that room was so ridiculously stuffy and hot (and the...

Yeah, I’m stuck in Chicago for the night. Going to get a hotel room. I have to be back here by 5:30 to have enough time to make it to my only flight option for tomorrow.

As we speak my flight to Chicago is delayed because they're all grounded for the blizzard. I may or may not make my connecting flight to Ottawa. If I don't, I'm stuck there until the morning when the next one is. May or may not get to see my mom because of it, we'll see. I've already called...

I’m actually going to be staying at a Sonder location. It’s a small single bed room but it’ll be fine. I’m not very well going to be able to fly my RAV up and I don’t want the wear and tear and salt of the trip on my car anyway. I have an iPhone so I don’t care if their infotainment only speaks...

Had to print my boarding passes for my flight to Ottawa tomorrow as the "mobile" pass for the second half of my flight up failed to load. Good job United, very cool. My laser printer thanks you for giving it a reason to turn on. I called them wanting to correct a spelling mistake on my name --...

I'm not just talking about the density -- I'm talking about date of manufacture. 1.44MB disks I've had that are from 1988/1989 still work beautifully, meanwhile I just got an entire unopened box of NOS 1.44MB disks from 2001 a couple months ago and out of ten disks only one didn't report an...

I tend to think along the lines of Optical Media Bad and only use physical discs for OS reinstalls on stuff that can't boot a USB drive, but I've observed the same thing. I have CD-Rs from the earliest of the 2000s when they would still not have been very cheap and they're fine. Obviously my...

I come into more regular contact with floppies than Merc just by virtue of my particular flavor of autistic hyperfixation, and these are my observations: There's an inverse proportion to age of the disk and likelihood of recoverability. Older disks were simply made better -- the fractions of a...

If anyone even wants to buy our oil by the time he's done alienating all of our allies.

How legible are the legends on those caps? Last I heard they were still using the old Lexmark equipment for their Model M caps and the lettering had really started to fuzz out since their lines hadn't been re-tooled since the 90s. That was one of the main things keeping me from buying one of...

This AI bubble can not burst quickly enough. First it was crypto bros, now it's stupid AI dorks with too much money burning a hole in their pocket. And scalpers getting them to sell to both. I just want to play games, man. I hope it's exactly like the last crypto crash where nVidia was left with...

You could already make the argument that the immigration camps met the definition of concentration camps as they were under Obama, Biden, etc. Trump has no incentive to make anything better, in fact, I'd be unsurprised if his solutions take a more... final... tilt as he loses further grip on...

I think we all figured Kamala getting elected wouldn't fix anything, it just hopefully wouldn't break anything worse and would buy us just a little more time. The American experiment has concluded. Edited to remove some sarcasm that could definitely be misconstrued

I'm kinda looking hard at Fairphones for when my ip13 bites it, I kinda want to get back into messing with ROMs and it seems like the best place to start would be a phone that isn't fundamentally against that whole idea on principle. They're not explicitly targetted at US use right now, in fact...

Oh but it got cold! The globe can't be warming! It's a environmentalist hoax because they want to take away my gigantic skullcrusher family-hauler truck (where I constantly keep my brights on because fuck the vision of everyone else on the road, I need to see for the next mile!) and gas stove...

Yesterday was the first time all winter I'd turned on my heat aside from testing to make sure it wouldn't burn my place down a couple times -- got some scary dust-burning smells but other than that, no issues. That was just because it had dropped below 54 -- I'd been tolerating upper 50s in the...

That movie came out when I was a kid and it gave me nightmares. It's all going to melt today it looks like -- we're supposed to get up to the mid 40s today when the sun's out. Shame. I could have done with a bit more of a break.

I bore witness this afternoon to something that will likely be a once, maybe twice in a lifetime event for my neighbors -- accumulating snow. It's still snowing. Some of my neighbors had literally never seen it before.

For the... roughly... twenty years we have left before things start getting apocalyptically rough climate-wise and we start dying off, at least, but yeah.

We have a hard enough time getting member states to the United Nations not just treat the whole thing like a joke in recent times. I think Russia and China in particular would be uncooperative just as a matter of course -- because who would enforce international law and make sure that everyone...

Because in this case CGNAT is making it so that the IP the modem is getting is different from the IP being shown to remote hosts -- CGNAT is the way ISPs are still getting mileage out of IPv4 and its limited addressing. The way it works is basically like how your home network is behind your...

I'm all-for responsible gun ownership, emphasis on responsible. Properly registered, properly maintained, with the correct licenses and certifications. There are certain legitimate contexts for gun ownership be they for sport or hunting, or even home defense -- I'm not saying people should...

Yeah, I've noticed that sometimes too. I'll sometimes get booted out for no discernible reason. It's not a big inconvenience for me to log back in, but it can get annoying sometimes.

I'm not running. I'm not going anywhere. Frankly, realistically, nowhere's really safe if he and his ilk don't want to see you continue to draw breath. And I have a feeling the rest of the world is about to get very hostile to Americans in general, in kind of a 'you made your bed now lay in it'...

Oh, no, my girlfriend hasn't married -- I'm just saying that, in consideration, it's not a downside for me automatically if she were to have been.

That's true. The biggest node I saw listed was, I think, 28nm? That's great for stuff from ~2012, but not so good for the support components and microcontrollers put into production 20 years ago that we still use.

I can understand the sentiment, but that's life, man. It's perfectly fine to have those standards, but just know that they're liable to leave you alone -- and if you're okay with that, that's fine. I was perfectly okay with being alone. I think it was when I finally hit that point rather than...

I guess the one good thing about all the sabre rattling is the realization that we can't put all our eggs in one basket -- between that and the pandemic, it seems that's actually bringing some chip fabrication back home. No word yet on if Trump kills it because it was something Biden did and...

Yeah, there's a bit of a gap between my girlfriend and I, enough so that I wouldn't have pursued her -- maybe if we'd met ten or so years down the line -- although, frankly, I was not about to pursue anyone. But she went after me. We do joke about it sometimes, though. So North Carolina's...

I can't just leave. I have obligations and family down here. Oh, and uh, just occured to me -- if we were to invade either Greenland or Canada, that would make NATO invoke Article 5... on us. Christ, we're going to enter the 2030s so isolated it'll make the early 1900s look like a joke.

So we're already getting a hell of a deal and Trump wants to take a mile and a half when given a few feet like always. I'm absolutely thoroughly embarrassed by how the incoming officer of the highest office in the land is behaving. He's trying to emulate Putin, it looks like. I just hope our...

Howdy. Yeah, compared to the others I've only been around a bit over 10 years.

My caps don't have a large legend. They wouldn't suit your needs.

Murray chrambus everyone! And everything else between any of you happen to celebrate!

I was dealing with the same wicked instability on this R5-4500U laptop that I was last time I used it extensively and I can't remember how or even if I ever fixed it. I'd either BSOD with a DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE that points in the direction of ntoskrnl and eventually shakes down to...

Amazon has wholesale sets of so many Kailh BOX switches -- I think they're genuine, there's a link to visit the Kailh store on the listing -- I got a box of 110 BOX Navy switches to replace the Gateron Reds on my K4 Pro with as I'm tired of fat fingering every switch and no longer care about...

I think you might well be fine if you're okay with working for a company instead of freelancing -- I'd seen a fair bit of work in Tampa when I last went looking. But if you're dead set on staying where you're at, I understand it.

Probably passing my Elitebook on to my girlfriend when I see her in February -- she's still using a mid-2010s Chromebook for her computing needs, which, frankly, aren't a lot, so an 8550U running Windows 11 should suffice for a good while. I still have my Pavilion, so I'll probably go back to...

Color me impressed. I'm not about to buy another one considering how I got turned out on Alchemist, but maybe these driver improvements will migrate their way back.

As a break from the dreary political landscape, some more retro adventures for your perusal: Putting RAM in this P3B-F box has been an utter nightmare. It seemed fine through a 98SE install which in my experience has been pretty sensitive to bad configs in the past, but eventually I ended up...

As big of a pain as Apple devices can be, I love my 4th gen mono iPod. It's an excellent listening device for when I want to be unreachable by the world at large. It's just that it also takes some work to be usable in $currentYear. I had to replace the battery and install a 1.8" IDE to CF...