It’s already trivial to track the president’s approximate location if you’re a drone operator or hobbyist pilot because he has a 50 mile diameter no-fly zone centered on him at all times, which is plainly visible on the FAA maps.

Ha. I still have my Pokéwalker in my box of random Game Boy shit that’s on the shelf over there. Its battery is very, very dead. I imagine I left somebody in it before losing interest but I have no idea who.

I see these things sell for $50 to $80 on eBay now? Damn.

I’m positive that’s verboten as well. The constitution is quite clear that this requires the approval of Congress.

Too bad, Lincoln’s post-Civil-War supreme court preemptively torpedoed this one. It’s been ruled that you need permission from the rest of the union to secede and can’t do it unilaterally, even through the union was formed in the first place via unilaterally seceding from the British empire.

…Because that makes sense.

Anyhoo, even if these dingbats succeed according to their own metrics the federal government won’t let them go. So have fun with that. Not that I trust any of said dingbats to have actually studied any history on the matter whatsoever, or on any other matter while we’re at it.

I imagine they’re using the eMMC data bus standard, but it’s pants-on-head moronic to use flash chips for what’s supposed to be permanently nonvolatile storage. Flash media is not storage stable if it’s not powered regularly; ask anybody with an old Windows install USB drive that’s more than a couple of years old and they’ll tell you all about it.

If this is so, that also opens up the inevitability of the data in cartridge games decaying and eventually becoming lost forever. Your cartridges would literally rot on the shelf.

Actually come to think of it, I wouldn’t put it past Nintendo to do that deliberately and be salivating at the very thought.

These are ROM, not flash memory. Unless Nintendo is even more unhinged than we give them credit for.

I take the opposite approach. I use the puffer bulb that came with my camera cleaning kit. Then I can vacuum the floor.

The danger with vacuuming things off of your desk (or at least my desk, which is inevitably strewn with tiny screws, 3D printed parts, bits of fountain pens, etc.) is that you’ll suck up something that you’d really rather you hadn’t. And then you have to get it back.

I can recommend you avoid those sub-$10 USB mini vacuums from China you see everywhere. I have one. It’s practically worthless.

This is true in a certain nonspecialized sense but thanks to thermoclines, pynoclines, haloclines, and various other physical phenomena that basically amount to scientific voodoo, there are parts of the ocean don’t actually intermingle with each other despite being ostensibly physically connected. Thus the ocean naturally divides itself into various separated regions regardless of what we think about it.

I was obviously being deliberately facetious. Relax.

Even before then. They’re originally listed in Exodus. Fun fact, after the tablet smashing incident when Moses goes back up the mountain to get a new set carved in Exodus 32, several of those listed by god in the process of creating the replacements are different from the first ten. Depending on where you split the clauses, there are as many as 18 commandments between the first and the second sets.

Deuteronomy is a recap, including only the first ten, but also manages get the explanation for the sabbath wrong as compared to previous chapters. Then it goes on to claim “these are the ten commandments and god added no more” which as we just saw is an untruth.

Even in Ye Olde Testament Times, an effort was afoot to deliberately mutate the terms and conditions in order to suit the current authority.

Because it made that noise.

External USB ones are free in boxes of Frosted Flakes these days.

I have a genuine honest to goodness 5.25" bay mounted Blu Ray burner in my tower right now. Hey, you never friggin’ know. It comes in handy every once in a while. There’s a machine in my basement with an LS-120, a Zip drive, and a 5.25" floppy drive in it that all still work. Occasionally I still find myself needing to get some monumentally important ancient file off of some kind of floppy disk or other for somebody.

*Asterisk.

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That only lists 18 states…

My own state requires it despite that list implying they don’t. Thus I really don’t think that chart is completely accurate. If you have ANY warning lights on your dash at inspection you will be failed here.

By “aren’t hard to remove” you actually mean requires dismounting the tire from the rim, remounting it, and then balacing it. This is far beyond the capabilities not to mention equipment of the typical layperson. Plus, your state is likely to conveniently fail your car on its next inspection for a nonfunctioning TPMS system, same as your check engine light.

If you’re going to go the distance anyway, get your tire shop to mount aftermarket Autel sensors in your rims. Using the readily available diagnostic tool, you can occasionally reprogram those (wirelessly!) with a set of random IDs and then also program your car to use them. You’ll be a lot tougher to track if your signature is different every week.

I’m not about to do this just yet, but I do have the tool for more mundane purposes and I only paid around $200 for it several years ago.

Mario Is Missing, obviously.

This is because their bosses will not allow them to buy new lathes and milling machines.

And you see, people wonder why I always have, like, six knives on me.

I have no idea. There was some dweeb on this very instance going around spamming a Krita related thread complaining about it.