There is a statue in Glasgow that always has a traffic cone on its head.
The council regularly removes it, and its always replaced.
It’s had different variations over the years, from pride to independence to EU flags.
The council proposed a renovation of the statue including raising the plinth to make it harder to replace the cone. It was shot down with massive public outcry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equestrian_statue_of_the_Duke_of_Wellington,_Glasgow

And you finally get to jump

I hear that the US has oil and WMDs

Not for a tourist visa. That’s just target with a “you have 4 hours to shop”.

I’ll be honest, I don’t get the shopping at target mugshot reference thing.

Any country you visit will stamp your passport on entry and exit.
The EU is in the process of automating that by taking biometrics and foregoing the passport stamps (https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/travel-europe-european-entryexit-system-ees_en so far, it’s automated gates with a passport scanner, a mugshot and fingerprints)
Sounds like the US is as well

Pretty sure this is what the EU is also introducing, instead of passport stamps and border agents.
It’s 1 person sitting in a booth verifying 8+ automatic passport and “person scanner” (ie, takes a photo and fingerprints of you). Matches entries and exits to the Schengen zone. They approve you, and you pass through the gate.
Not sure about the “retention” aspect, tho. Certainly retained for the 90 days in a 180 day period thing. Beyond that? I dunno.

But any border control zone is going to have CCTV which will have its own image retention policy.

Id love to believe this is to weed out the bad applicants.
People that answer “lol, I just want a job” actually get the interviews

Um, akshually it’s a DNS issue not a router issue.
I think.
It looks like a router issue. But it’s always a DNS issue

I installed endeavouros on my windows laptop.
The installer guided me through the partitioning, setting up systemd-boot, and it was all great.
I had to disable bitlocker in windows (not that bothered about) and secure boot in bios (also not that bothered about).

Ran smoothly dual booting both for about 4 months.
Then a windows update hit, and fucked the boot.

Thankfully, this is a common enough thing that there are plenty of tutorials out there.
A liveUSB of endeavouros, some tinkering, and I was back up and running.

The cause seems to be FastBoot, where windows keeps the boot partition mounted. What I think happens is that bios tries to read the boot partition, which is configured/loaded for windows (because it never cleaned up after itself due to FastBoot being on) and boots into windows.
Since turning off FastBoot, I haven’t had any issues in the past 8 months.

Steam took the cap off the toothpaste tube.
Microsoft is giving the toothpaste tube a good squeeze!

Oh look, fediverse is still working.
You can share in the smug grin

I’ll trade you your gold for my petty insults

But they felt it. The whole building. Felt it.
And the clapped until their hands bled.

Maybe it’s about redaction of the files

early 14c., “meat from the back and sides of a hog” (originally either fresh or cured, but especially cured), from Old French bacon, from Proto-Germanic *bakkon “back meat” (source also of Old High German bahho, Old Dutch baken “bacon”), from the source of back (n.).

Nah, bacon is bacon

I’ve been caught out by that. Very disappointing sandwich

And yet, there is an entire world out there. With people from all countries that are dealing with sash and case windows, restricted opening windows, or windows that don’t open at all.

The “ever” is maybe stretching it.
I think it can survive the occasional mis-opening. But I wouldn’t do it regularly, not leave it like that for a day.
Like “yeh, you’ve fucked up but I’m fine for now. Please fix me and never do it again” kinda scenario

I feel like it’s a “can survive, but please fix quickly” kinda scenario.
I have no doubt the mechanism can support it. But used regularly will likely break something (where the entire fucking window falls into your room)

1st position detent = tilt (small opening).
2nd position detent = door (big opening).

I get that “horizontal handle = door” kinda makes sense… But doesn’t feel intuitive to me

Excel is often used by people that don’t know what a database is, and you end up with thousands of rows of denormalised data just waiting for typos or extra white spaces to fuck up the precarious stack of macros and formulae. Never mind the update/insert anomalies and data corruption waiting to strike.

I have a passionate hate for Excel, but I understand that not everyone is willing to learn more robust data processing