Obama:

Trump:

I was enrolled in community college for computer science around '08-'09. I completed Visual Basic and C++ intro courses in before switching to mechanical engineering, which is now my field of employment. I built a Windows Media Center HTPC with a tuner card during my community college years. That HTPC evolved over time, and eventually Microsoft killed WMC. I tried Plex TV recording, but that sucked balls compared to WMC. The latest incarnation of that computer runs TrueNAS, and I’m not really doing much with it beyond self-hosting media, but I have a Mint VM installed and set up for a Valheim dedicated server in anticipation of the 1.0 release next month. I might eventually move Home Assistant off a Pi into my TrueNAS, but it hasn’t been high-priority.

Art deco, atompunk, steampunk, cyberpunk, dieselpunk, in no particular order.

he had decent odds for jury nullification

If you’re judging this solely by public sentiment on the Internet, particularly on Lemmy, perhaps. I would imagine the prosecution for this particular case put extra focus on avoiding the selection of jurors who might push for nullification.

In an unkept grave next to Ivana?

Maybe he actually does mean windmill and really hates the Dutch.

Other celebrity opinions possibly worth considering within the scope of their respective fields:

• Sir Brian May - PhD in astrophysics
• Mayim Bialik - PhD neuroscience
• Shaquille O’Neal - EdD education
• Ken Jeong - MD
• Dolph Lundgren - MS chemical engineering
• Rowan Atkinson - MS electrical engineering
• Ben McKenzie - undergrad in economics

5. He doesn’t have complete control over the output of Grok and doesn’t want to be held responsible for what it vomits out.

I think Charlie Kirk got cancelled.

But what do you do now that there’s no queen?

AFAIK, the deal is still in the process of clearing regulatory hurdles. I don’t think they are effectively the owners just yet.

Does awarding a man-baby president a made-up peace prize count as political messaging?

Sleep is in seconds for Linux/UNIX, but milliseconds on Windows. 50,000 ms is 50 seconds.

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/cpp/sleep-function-in-cpp/

This has mostly affected me on my work PC. I just tried installing it to find out IT blocks adding new extensions now. :(

I’ll just have to be extra careful not to reflexively close Firefox if my tabs don’t show up, and make sure to make a backup of the old session file before restarting.

Windows 10 extended support on my main PC: if I have nothing better to do in the moment, I’ll update before Windows picks the most inconvenient time to do it for me.

Windows 11: I almost never wake this laptop. When I do, it’s always downloading and installing updates, running hot and at full tilt. Miserable POS.

TrueNAS: there’s an update?

Home Assistant: maybe once every month or every other month, but only after perusing the change logs and checking against the breaking changes list.

Android: leave the update notification in the tray until I get home on my Wi-Fi, forget about it until I see it again the next day when I’m away from Wi-Fi again, rinse and repeat.

Edit:

Firefox desktop: when Firefox starts refusing to load web pages

Honestly, of all the things I have to update, I find Firefox the most painful, firstly because of the suspension of functional browsing if I ignore it long enough (there’s enough apps out there that update cleanly at launch that I feel like that should be the norm instead of forcing an end to a session), and secondly because updates have wiped my tabs on two occasions. I successfully recovered my tabs from a backed-up session file once, but completely lost them on the other occasion.

Ran across this relevant YouTube short yesterday:

https://youtube.com/shorts/Xmka1awC1b4?is=cZCx07wrTSWth3OV

2013 seems like a decent pick. NVME drives just came into existence. Windows 7 was around and still had Windows Media Center. Fiber ISPs were around. Facebook was still centered around people you actually knew and wasn’t hyper-focused on serving you engagement-bait political bullshit. Not a trace of LLMs in sight. Google search still worked. Chrome hadn’t crippled adblock extensions. Porn was accessible without privacy-violating age verification. Content was less fragmented across streaming services.

Probably the roughest backslide for me would be going without Android Auto.

While I appreciate the sentiment, there’s some details that hurt your case:

• A pregnant woman entering the US has a baby daddy who is likely not a US citizen. Donald Trump (Barron’s alleged father) is a US citizen, therefore his offspring is a US citizen.
• The Supreme Court has affirmed birthright citizenship. Since Barron was born in the US, he’s a US citizen, regardless of his mother’s immigration status.

“Concrete” may not be the exact term. After looking it up, it’s a clay plug from a mortar.

I’ve had a car roof dented from a chunk of concrete from a firework. Not a fan.