Well it’s what you get when you decide to instill democratic values in every school child for decades. Perhaps we should make note of that?

It’s finally coming to England.

Do you remember when Clarkson finally just gave May a Sandero? Only to destroy it after a single drive

Yet again in recent history Germany saves us from our incompetent wannabe fascist leaders.

I want to believe, I really do. But I fear that the crypto apps people have grown dependent on will make it harder than the desktop battle. And IDK but I seem to recall every year since at least 2001 being proclaimed to be the year of the Linux desktop.

I rely on my banking apps (plural), governmental email app, government authentificator app and the governmental LMS app for public schools to make my everyday function. And the last time I tried just a custom ROM, those apps refused to run.

An astroid the mass of the meat half of a giraffe and the volume of 5kg of somewhat dry duck feathers…

I’m beginning to think that it would more relatable if it was just stated in kg or m^3 instead

And is it half the volume, mass or a dimension? Because I’ve never tried neither blending or carrying a giraffe before (I never got invited to those parties in uni) so I have no grasp on volume or mass.

Is the terminal emulator set up correctly in regards to baudrate and stopbits? I would try playing around with these settings.

I haven’t used Dell gear before, but you are sure that it’s not some proprietary protocol that’s running over serial? As in it requires some special software instead of a console?

I’m not sure what you mean by the signals being dirty. If it’s the slope after the initial fast rise you mean, I guess it could be remedied with an opamp, a push-pull pair, an optocoupler, or some other switching circuit with a suitable power capacity. But as long as it gets above the hysteresis threshold for long enough it should be fine. Whether that’s happens you should be able to tell from the scope (which I can’t see while writing in my client)

Indeed, feeling the need to check, I can tell you that we’re not in the onion anymore…

And here I thought I had it all figured out. But it does make sense. Doing it with an analog signal introduces noise and measuring pulse widths is going to be simpler.

Ok, but what’s the chance of being hatched on each continent? I believe that it’s a statistical insignificant amount penguins being born anyway

Except that wasn’t a serial port, it was midi, and the reason it was on the sound card was because the input was analog.

Your joystick was just two fancy potentiometers, and your soundcard decoded the voltage on the middle legs into a position.

Soundcards handled joysticks because they had the fastest ADCs.

But I only needed three more 30 day trials to finish downloading cd2 of the phantom menace cam that I started in 1999…

POV: Be a software developer. It’s 2025. You’re maintaining dialer software for an ISP. The software is written in Delphi or Visual Basic. It’s all you’ve done since 1995. You’ve got 5 years to retirement. Corporate announces end of life for dial up services.

as the legacy instruction sets are interpreted/translated.

Wth? That’s it, I’m sticking to the AVR then

You are equating Israel to all Jewish people.

No I’m not. I’m saying it’s close to the rhetoric from 100 years ago, not the same.

That’s offensive!

To whom? I personally find it offensive, that you would try such a cheap trick to end this argument. Purposefully misinterpreting my comment in an attempt to get me to look antisemitic? Seriously?

This is such a weird stance for American companies and politicians. It truly blows my mind. You can say whatever you want about Americans or anything here. You can even say the president is a pedophile and it’s fine (even if it wasn’t true) but the second you say something bad about Israel because they suck everyone starts flipping their shit.

With you so far.

It’s like our whole country is secretly run by Israel or something.

DANGER WILL ROBINSON: That’s cutting it pretty darn close to the whole Jewish cabal bullshit. Your country is not secretly run by Israel. It’s run by reactionary old farts, who’s more afraid of being called antisemitic, than they value human rights.

I get what you’re saying. I guess what I’m yelling at the clouds about is the common discourse more than anything else.

If a screw has a slotted head, and your screwdriver is a torx, few people would say that the screwdriver won’t allow them to do something.

Computers are just tools, and we’re the ones who created them. We shouldn’t be submissive, we should acknowledge that we have taken the wrong approach at solving something and do it a different way. Just like I would bitch about never having the correct screwdriver handy, and then go look for the right one.

Stupid cloud, who’s laughing now?

I get the analogy, but I don’t think that it’s valid. Soldiers are, much to the chagrin of their commanders, sentient beings, and should question potentially illegal orders.

Where the analogy doesn’t hold is, besides my computer not being sentient, what I’m prevented from doing isn’t against the law of man.

I’m not claiming to be infallible. After all to err is human, and I’m indeed very human. But throw me a warning when I do something that goes against best practices, that’s fine. Whether I deal with it is something for me to decide. But stopping me from doing what I’m trying to do, because it’s potentially problematic? GTFO with that kinda BS.

I wonder… What if you removed the wires holding the cork, inserted said cork end of the bottle, and shook the bottle mercilessly. How would the ER get to the cork from that far up?