Captain Aggravated

Nope! Not me. I’m kinda hoping to undershoot the median age. My warranty’s expired and I really don’t know if I’m up for the “maybe we can find parts at the You-Pick” stage of existence.

“Amazingly old spacecraft is starting to break.”

Voyager 1 has had an exceptional service life, the poor old thing is tired.

Don’t let the door hit you on the ass on the way out.

Me and my family members have tried a few times. "We’re going there and coming back, this is kind of a pleasure trip, I’m in no immediate hurry so going slower than an airliner is acceptable, let’s see what Amtrak can do. In almost all cases, Amtrak’s answer is “We can’t do that.”

The ONLY train that serves my local platform here is the Silver Star. They don’t want you using it for short-haul trips like from here to Raleigh, so there are routes I’m locked out of unless I drive myself to Greensboro. The Silver Star is served by one physical train, it comes through here at about 9 at night and about 6 in the morning, and those hours aren’t even a little stable.

The navigation a passenger has to do to get from here to the West coast by Amtrak is more complicated than needed to drive yourself. I can get from here to Los Angeles on street signs alone. Amtrak is I suspect deliberately unhelpful.

There’s an Amtrak station blocks from my home. I’ve had destinations in mind with Amtrak stations nearby. Amtrak is effectively not capable of connecting stations unless the same train serves both. For example, Raleigh NC to Altoona PA. Amtrak can’t say “Take the Silver Star up to New York, hang out in Grand Central station for two hours, take the Globular Condor or whatever the Westbound train is called to Altoona.” I guess “You can’t get there from here” is easier to program.

iPhone users be like “but I paid $1200 for this blue bubble!”

Or a lot of existing machines that meet Win 7’s specs running Win 10 aren’t compatible with Win 11.

I would be surprised at that; my understanding is OBD-II is just a breakout for the vehicle’s CAN bus.

Yeah I’ve done self-checkout a lot when picking up five or six items, and it works fine. Having done it for a f’real grocery run at a Wal-Mart once…if it had one of those conveyor belts where you could put all your items, then let you check out, bag and put in your cart, it would work. But you end up with a cart half full of unscanned things and half full of bags.

For this reason, I think it’s pretty shitty they put condoms in alarm boxes. If there’s something I’m okay with stealing from a Wal-Mart, it’s food and condoms.

Don’t think I could convict anyone stealing safety glasses either.

Deer urine and truck nuts.

You can install current day Linux Mint on PCs from the Core 2 era, ~15 years old, and it runs like brand new. OS bloat is not inevitable, it is a result of greed.

That’s The Jetsons, Bill. You’re describing the setting of The Jetsons.

Every dishwasher I’ve used in the United States has a built-in heating element. Mine has a steam sanitize function and gets quite hot.

However, it is conventional here to plumb the dishwasher to the hot water line, and it is my understanding that the dishwasher is designed to assume the water is hot and doesn’t try to heat it from cold during the first rinse.

I’ve found that running some water from my kitchen sink to prime the hot line with hot water makes the dishwasher more effective. I use that water for plants, or I keep it in a jug and pour it into a load of laundry in the winter.

It’s official, Youtube now has people employed as product worseners.

American politics didn’t used to be the polarized team sport it is now.

We’re seeing the ultimate culmination of the Southern Strategy: Get with the preachers who run those “god says hate the blacks” churches that the South is full of, pay them to say “God says vote the Republicans in so we can use the government to take it out on the blacks.” Fast forward 60 years, and take a look around.

Having lived through the initial rollout of USB, I remember a period of time when a PC would come with a few USB ports, printers had parallel and USB ports on them, mice came with USB to P/S2 adapters in the box etc. so there was a transitional period. Everyone seemed to be onboard with the idea that USB was the future. Within a decade, P/S2, RS-232 and parallel ports disappeared from PCs.

That same drive to move the fuck on and complete the transition doesn’t seem to be there this time. Mobile device manufacturers have adopted USB-C as entirely as they can because of their weird obsession with making devices uselessly thin. Peripheral manufacturers really haven’t; displays are still HDMI or DP, Logitech outright refuses to make a USB-C Unifying Transceiver…“dongle life.” And desktop PCs have relatively few USB-C ports meaning if you do manage to collect up USB-C peripherals for your mobile life, they’re a pain on desktop.

Back in the late 90’s why did we want USB ports when serial and parallel and P/S2 worked so well? There were decades worth of hardware that were compatible with the old standards.

As far as I can tell, neither government here has the moral high ground…and I chose the word “government” there for a reason.

It is my understanding from very far away only able to see through Lie-O-Vision that two governments that hate each other because religion are basically taking it out on civilians who just want to live their lives. It’s a tragedy that has basically nothing to do with me yet it does cast my eyes toward my own capitol city with a bit of a suspicious squint.

Godwin’s Law was repealed in 2016.