Asking for forgiveness and repenting seems to be entirely optional, and limited to certain sects anyway.

Most that I know just do shitty things, but it’s ok because Jesus is on their side.

Wouldn’t shorthand (stenography) be a better solution then?

Cursive was very specifically a solution to quill/fountain pens of old, where you needed to reduce the times the pen touched the paper.

Every major social media site has a problem with it. Most report tens of millions of incidents every year, much of it hidden in non-porn areas.

I won’t speak about banks, but many (most?) security guards at businesses aren’t even armed. They are there as a deterrent, but also to witness and document. They are also (usually mildly) trained to defuse a violent situation and get any robbers out the door without bloodshed.

Obviously it depends on your location, but you can probably just sign up. Around here, you contact the county court system (which is how our juries are administered), give them your contact info, and wait for a case. You’re limited to volunteering once per year, because some retirees would keep doing it just to stay busy.

He timed his contract expiration to match Letterman’s. He really wanted to take over the Late Show, a move that paid off.

I appreciate what you’re trying to do, but you should look into the numbers. I follow a channel that went through their YouTube earnings a while back. 225k subscribers, long-form (20-30 minutes) videos getting 30k views each.

He got about $40/video.

The only way you could make the math work -at all- is if you’re already on resistive heat and you only do it during winter. In any other scenario, you’ll spend more on electricity than they will get in revenue. Even in this one, it’s ignoring things like increased wear for what might not even be pennies of revenue.

Generally speaking, it’s the amps that you need to be concerned about. That’s what requires thicker cables, because amps generate heat (in the form of transmission losses). Higher voltage can actually reduce this, since W=V*A. That’s how the latest USB-PD can deliver so much power, by increasing the voltage. It’s also why EV fast chargers work faster on 800v batteries. The cables are limited by amperage.

However, you are correct that the materials would need to be able to handle the higher voltage. If the resistance is too low, it could create arcing, which is really bad.

The answer really depends on your needs and use cases, as well as your risk profile.

The simplest option is to schedule regular backups to a USB (preferably rotating drives, following the 3-2-1 rule). If “shit happens”, you would restore that backup using the same software. You may have difficulties restoring to different hardware. Acronis and Macrium are simple solutions here, or Clonezilla if you prefer free or offline backups.

If you want a way to boot to a diagnostic tool, and recover from there, there are countless options. From a live Linux distro, UBCD, WinRE, Media Creation Tool, the options abound. You may or may not be able to recover any data, or your existing system. It really depends on your definition of “shit happens”, and what you need it to do.

I suspect that your real goal is to move your existing Windows install (and all associated data) to a USB drive, and boot from that. Windows to Go was exactly that, but was discontinued. There are some hobby projects to do the same. This is (usually) a really bad idea. USB drives are much slower and less reliable, and create extra points of failure. It also keeps almost all of the other risks of the internal drive. You’re better off using option #1 above.

This is the most accurate answer. If you really wanted to, you can probably get a refund from the other state for the sales tax paid, but it only makes sense for very large purchases.

This is why I’m hesitant to say Adam Baldwin. He’s always the same basic character, but I think there are enough subtle differences between them to not count.

Way back in the day, Last.fm recommended me a number of (mostly metal) tracks in other languages that absolutely slap. I have no idea how to pronounce any of it, or even type the characters to see what else they might have done. All I can do is copy/paste, which is of limited value since I only speak English.

So yes, and I’m sure I’m missing a ton more just like these that I just have no way to find.

Theoretically it could be done. Microsoft SCCM has allowed in-place full reimaging for a long time. It downloads a WinPE boot image (which loads everything into a RAM disk), reboots into that, and launches all of the rest from there. Even wiping and repartitioning the drive.

I don’t see why that WinPE image couldn’t be replaced by a small Linux image, or that you could install Linux from WinPE. I’ve just never seen it.

That said, no browser should ever have that level of permissions, ever, under any circumstances. The security problems would be staggering.

He was a spy. His official title was something innocuous, but he was a spy.

Source

I remember reading somewhere that (especially) Russian disinformation campaigns learned British English. They, pretending to be American anti-vaxxers, spread it to the dialect of the dumbest Americans.

‘Jab’ is basically a case study in skipped localization.

Countless movies/TV shows show people drinking/getting drunk. Typically, it’s water with food coloring (or similar). When someone is shown eating, the scene cuts and they spit it out.

This depends a lot more on what you plan on doing once the OS boots. I accidentally loaded Win11 on an HDD (disk 0 was HDD, not SSD) for a few hours. It was noticeably slow, but it ran my diagnostics utilities well enough.

If you’re using it for light web browsing, basic office software, etc, then it might be fine.

But something else caught my attention - you inquired about “restoring” it at shops, meaning you intend to pay money. SSD and RAM are obviously what anyone would upgrade, and you’re balking at it. More to the point, you expect to run Linux, but didn’t even install it as-is to test it out?

There’s some missing context here. Also, 2gb laptops haven’t been a thing in a very long time. You might very well get a better deal by just buying a used newer model that already has what you’re looking for.

You have to save up to afford that pack of hamburgers to grill on Memorial Day, or the turkey for Thanksgiving. If you scrimp and save all year, you might even be and to afford to put a present or two under the Christmas Tree.

I want to know how your sleeping conditions are connected to your state’s DMV.

If you don’t like it, you don’t like it. Why spend time/effort on something that isn’t speaking to you?

Also, Randall Munroe is xkcd, not Penny Arcade. Penny Arcade is made by Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik.