Notices by lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net), page 44
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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 14:55:31 EDT 
lnxw48a1
@clacke I think experience and observation is the difference. When my nephew #Honshu was much younger, he was subscribed to an online music service. One month, my sister couldn't pay the Internet bill, and the service's local client very quickly shut off access to his downloaded music files when it could not check to see if he was allowed to listen.
Lesson learned: buy your music on CDs and rip them to put on your player devices. With no #DRM / #TUR, the files will work even without a subscription.
Likewise, I bought a version of the Sony #PSP for #sonTwo ... the one that used a digital download format for all games. In under a year, he'd lost access to all his games. I went to GameStop and bought a used PSP (the old style with the physical media) and he was able to play for years.
DRM == "Digital Rights Management", a euphemism for TUR. TUR == "Technical Use Restrictions". TUR is meant to restrict and prevent use except in limited and pre-approved circumstances. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 14:43:47 EDT
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That no moving parts can opener reminds me of some army style can opener that a friend had in the late 1970s or early 1980s. I think I prefer something like https://www.target.com/p/oxo-soft-handled-can-opener/-/A-13567839 in all cases to such can openers. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 13:20:14 EDT
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I was reading online about the Bavarii tribe recently. Some sources consider Bavarian* to be a different language than German, because it has more differences than Danish has from Norwegian.
So this means that at least some Scandinavian languages are mutually intelligible?
* including the German forms spoken in Austria and Switzerland -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 04:13:28 EDT
lnxw48a1
https://apnews.com/article/india-sanskrit-name-bharat-modi-g20-72782ba81aa67dcf7e197a98fec9b5f5 [apnews com]
I saw someone claiming #India is changing its name. The truth is not so easily defined. It seems India and #Bharat are both used, but the current ruling party wants to stop using 'India' due to belief that the name is a colonial relic. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Sep-2023 03:55:26 EDT
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Claes Schwartzenegger -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 23:21:18 EDT
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I deleted my #Friendica account at Libranet.de. I'll try another server before I decide whether I want to host ~F again, but that one had so many issues that I couldn't stand to use it. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 22:56:59 EDT
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Do certain water-loving mammals otter-matically know how to swim? -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 22:27:23 EDT
lnxw48a1
> I'm around the 50th floor
In one #hotel in #NYC, I was on the 41st floor when we had a fire alarm go off. I admit that I grabbed both computer backpacks (personal and $EMPLOYER), but after heading down 40 floors, I was wiped out for the rest of the night and also the next day.
In the US, at least, they shut off the elevators during a fire alarm, so your choices are (1) walk down the stairs until you reach the bottom or (2) stay where you are and hope you don't die. Well, there is a 3rd choice: walk downstairs, but not all the way. But you need to get below the floor with the fire _and_ hope that the upper floors don't collapse.
I don't know what the answer is, but high rises need a better escape plan than that.
(Another factor in New York is that many buildings are pretty old, so they don't have modern structural improvements. I'm assuming, but cannot be sure, that most of #Hong_Kong's taller buildings are somewhat newer and likely to have some structural improvements over older buildings. Also, in #Manhattan, #Brooklyn, and possibly other boroughs of New York, some buildings are built so close together that they touch their neighbors.) -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 04:29:49 EDT
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Food fraud β fake products sold as real. https://youtu.be/K0OtGIPRcAs?si=oJpECjXJNsNNpG2V [youtu be] -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 02:26:52 EDT
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> I will eat $FOOD_ITEM, but only if it smells or tastes weird and nobody else will finish it.
I'm definitely the opposite. If there's any hint that it may be spoiling, I feed it to the ravens.
When I was in 3rd grade, there was a week where the milk they served as part of school lunch was in the process of spoiling. It wasn't there yet, but it definitely did not taste great. At the time, milk was my favorite beverage. By the end of the week, it was hard to swallow milk, even non-spoiled milk, but I continued to have milk with cereal and to drink chocolate milk until I was in 7th or 8th grade. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 02:19:44 EDT
lnxw48a1
Two brothers, one sister, one nephew visited this holiday weekend. I also saw another nephew ... because my sister and I went to the apartment where he lives. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Sep-2023 02:17:54 EDT
lnxw48a1
I'm glad you and your family seem to have made it through Typhoon Saola without injury or damage. It seems to have had less impact than expected, and that's a good thing. https://nu.federati.net/url/291461 [abcnews go com] -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 20:35:24 EDT
lnxw48a1
From 2020: study finds almost all children infected with #COVID-19 show signs of blood vessel damage, even kids that are asymptomatic.
https://studyfinds.org/children-with-covid-blood-vessel-damage/ [studyfinds org]
This is the first time I've seen this site. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 04-Sep-2023 12:46:59 EDT
lnxw48a1
In the US, today is Labor Day.
This is the day we (claim to) celebrate the workers who built this country and who laid the foundations for things we have today, like the 8 hour day, 40 hour week, breaks, overtime pay, shift differential, and benefits.
They faced violent opposition from a βprivate detective serviceβ named Pinkerton that were hired by corporations to prevent unions from improving the pay and working conditions. They were really just thugs.
So when we have any of the things unions brought us, they were paid for by a worker getting his head bashed in a century ago. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 02-Sep-2023 18:57:15 EDT
lnxw48a1
I'm looking for a cheap #VPS host, but not one that will take my payment and close in a month. #Chunkhost ran ~$200/year for each one, but I can't pay that much right now. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 02-Sep-2023 18:53:43 EDT
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Sounds like two of my brothers and one sister are coming here today to have a family #BBQ and spend time with Mom. Possibly #faveNephew, too, but not his siblings or cousins. -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 02-Sep-2023 08:10:57 EDT 
GeniusMusing
Jimmy Buffett: Margaritaville singer dies aged 76 BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-66694147?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
>US singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett, best known for his 1970's hit Margaritaville, has died aged 76.
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>"Jimmy passed away peacefully on the night of September 1 surrounded by his family, friends, music and dogs," said a statement on his website.
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>"He lived his life like a song till the very last breath and will be missed beyond measure by so many."
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>The cause of Buffett's death was not given but he had spent time in hospital in recent months.
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Jimmy Buffett Fins Music Video YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNrM7DnYz4Y
#RIP -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 02-Sep-2023 03:35:16 EDT
lnxw48a1
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/01/us/maui-fires-final-number-missing-people/index.html [www cnn com] #HI governor: #Maui missing / unaccounted people may be as low as 50.
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