Yes.
Not only that, the current generation of smoke detectors have sealed batteries so you can’t even open them up to change batteries or anything. So once they expire in 10 years they start their incessant “I’m dying” non-stop beeping - that’s when you dispose of the entire smoke detector and buy a new one.
I’ve read that they don’t detect smoke as well after 10 years anyway (e.g. even more false alarms) so it’s probably for the best to get rid of old ones.
I don’t have any answers - but now I wonder if your idea would be easier when working with one of the fancier smoke detectors with voice alerts. Those have pre-recorded voice alerts that “speak” when an alert occurs, rather than beeping. Those pre-recorded messages must be stored somewhere in the smoke detector.
With PSU issues your system wouldn’t be able to boot up. Or if there was some sort of load issue in the middle of usage you’d just see your computer turn off / restart.
What you’re describing is some sort of software or driver problem.
A bit gross. Even more so if the woman is not welcoming to that sort of thing. …OTOH to be fair if they are both into it then okay it’s between those two.
That exact situation has happened at the building I work in, older 50’s maintenance guy keeps calling out to and trying to have conversations with my early 20’s coworker. She finds it extra gross that the married guy has a daughter about her age. At one point she got stuck riding the elevator with the guy and he tried touching/grabbing her shoulder and she noped out of there as soon as the elevator opened. At this point pretty much everyone at my work area knows about it and warns her whenever he is around so she just kind of avoids/hides from the guy.
What I find interesting is when older guys exhibit that sort of behavior, do they think it’s just private between the two of them? Younger women like to talk and they definitely will talk about this stuff to friends/coworkers.
Like the other comment said, it’s never specifically mentioned. The event or catalyst isn’t the point of the story so I don’t think McCarthy intended to spend much time on those particulars.
I need to re-watch it but from what I remember the man goes through the entire story with a ever-worsening cough, the air quality isn’t great, there’s not much sunlight that comes through anymore, hence plants & whatnot pretty much all die off. I didn’t quite follow why there’s no more electricity/power anymore but that happens too. Taking a guess McCarthy is vaguely describing something similar to a catastrophic asteroid event or a major volcanic eruption along with a massive solar storm or something along those lines.
Coincidentally I just watched Greenland 2 (sequel to Greenland, obvs) which is about an comet/asteroid event and the aftermath. Neither movie is nearly as good as The Road but they’re fun popcorn movies if you’re into that sort of thing… the second movie definitely gets some inspiration from The Road, I’ll say that much. Not nearly as bleak.
Dead, probably. I’d be okay with it… the way The Road is set up the world is going through an extinction level event, nothing grows anymore. There’s only so much pre-canned food, or other humans, to eat before it all runs out. It’s pretty bleak.
If you’re going that far back means those two friends in the same city were probably going to church (or some other religious gathering) fairly regularly and would likely see each other fairly often. Enough to be able to make other plans during the week. And yes, can’t tell someone you’re running late or not showing up… if you’re late you’re late, if you don’t appear then that’ll be a conversation next time at church.
Beyond that since they’re in the same city those friends likely go to the same pub(s) or other places and see each other that way.
Buying groceries and cooking.
You can have things shipped to yourself at the hotel, it’s actually quite common e.g.
Firstname Lastname (Guest)
Fancy Hotel Name
123 This Street
This City, State, Zip Code
That said it might be helpful to notify the front desk that you plan to receive package(s) during your stay in the case they set up a different procedure for that.
Also be aware sometimes you’ll need to check in with the front desk or receiving department if there are any packages for you - More than a few receiving departments at hotels just don’t do the extra work to notify guests that packages arrived for them… this sometimes results in the guest checking out without ever knowing there was something waiting for them to pick up.
Yup I was going to comment the same. The physical passport might be useful after the fact once you’re in ICE holding being processed after x amount of hours/days. But then again at that point they would look you up in their systems so having the physical passport in your wallet may end up being a waste of time anyway.
The fact is if the ICE goon squad you encounter feels like arresting and detaining US citizens they’re going to do it.
And that’s assuming the ICE goons don’t make up charges of assaulting them or similar, in which case I’m not sure if those US citizens being charged get released with a future court date or are detained indefinitely.
The mount terminal command should work. But I’d expect you should be able to right-click an .iso file and mount it that way too. I’m not on Linux Mint but can confirm with GNOME on Debian it’s easy enough to right-click the .iso file and select “Open With Disk Image Mounter”, Cinnamon on Linux Mint should be able to do the same or similar.
Also keep mind you’re probably going to need to do more than just mount a .iso disc image if you want to play an old Windows game on Linux. There’s a few ways to go about that but I’m not too familiar on the best approach when you’re not running Windows games through Steam.
Catholic schools in the 80’s did not have corporal punishment (certainly not the one I attended for a few years). I think that was something from an earlier time period.
Probably sick of social media. I have a few friend requests/message requests I never bothered accepting since I’m preparing to delete those social media accounts anyway.
Feels active to me… but I usually subscribe and participate in communities I want to follow and then browse my Lemmy Subscribed page. Rarely look at the All page, it gets annoying scrolling through tons of posts about topics I have no interest in.
How long has it been since the upgrade? You only get 10 days to do it easily so if it’s been less than 10 days just go to Settings / System / Recovery / Go back
If it’s been more than 10 days then you’d need to do a fresh re-install of Windows 10 on that system, meaning losing the currently installed apps and data. Make sure to back up before doing that.
EDIT: Maybe I misunderstood your question - if the laptop never had Windows 10 to begin with then there’s nothing to rollback to. You’d have to do a brand new installation of Windows 10 on that system which may or may not work if the system never had the proper Window 10 drivers & whatnot.
Hans Gruber and the Die Hards
Got to see them when they did a tour playing with Escape From the Zoo, that show was wild!
Yup there’s already a pretty good list going in this post!
Not sure what to add, their sound is a bit different but I’ve been digging Playboy Manbaby and one of their newer songs Criminals definitely fits the post topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abj78ccwPbg they’re amazing live. Robbie also has a whole side project with Spaceman Bob, he’s going to be playing at the Leftover Crack show this weekend so that should be fun.
got into RATM around this time last year and nothing else has come close to scratching the itch of “maaaan fuck this shit.”
Coincidentally Tom Morello mentioned Kneecap earlier this year when talking about bands of the moment https://www.nme.com/news/music/tom-morello-hails-kneecap-as-the-rage-against-the-machine-of-now-3877562 (around 20 mins in that interview).
Plenty of punk and punk adjacent music still around, lots of local shows still occur if you know where to look. I’m in the U.S. but can say for sure this stuff is still happening here and other countries too.
Bob Vylan and Kneecap were banned from the U.S. earlier this year and Zionists are still going around trying to get their shows cancelled just for speaking out on Palestine.
In general Zionists seem to be easily triggered, last year while on their tour playing a show in New Jersey Apes of the State had a big FREE PALESTINE banner at their shows and some guy at the venue flipped out and tried to take it down.
On tour last month in the U.S. Bad Cop/Bad Cop was selling FUCK ICE shirts while the other band on tour with them (The Iron Roses) were speaking out on LGBTQ issues and the general fucked state the U.S. is in right now.
Later this weekend Leftover Crack is playing a show in Brooklyn, I’m sure they’ll have plenty to say on the current state of things.
Yes. In fact that’s how banks and brokerages try to retain FDIC insurance with larger sums of money e.g. Fidelity’s sweep accounts are actually spread across many accounts under $250k each. See the Deposit Sweep Program info at https://www.fidelity.com/why-fidelity/safeguarding-your-accounts