Which are just petrol/diesel but wearing a moustache for disguise.

Yes and no, mostly no, but it’s open to interpretation.

https://stereogum.com/2513749/tom-morello-clarifies-he-does-vote-just-not-for-corporate-democrats/news

Short version, he bragged about not voting for Harris, with the nuance (which is so easily lost in today’s society) that she was all but guaranteed to win California, so his protest vote did not, on it’s own, risk contributing to Donald Trump’s second term.

The flip side of that nuance is that his rhetoric about the subject, without the additional context, may discourage voting in swing states, which could help Trump/Republicans in a much more significant way than just not voting for Harris in California.

His follow-up statements clarified his stance, including the quote I provided.

His behavior overall was messy, but that quote holds up nicely on its own.

Reposting my own comment here:

I live somewhere with 2 Republicans on the ballot for one seat with no write in line.

I could have not voted at all on that item, but that wouldn’t have helped anybody but the worst of the two candidates.

I poured through more interviews and candidate statements from these two trashy people than any other candidate I voted for, just to find the one that was the least evil.

I still hate them both, but I voted for one to try and stem the bleeding because that’s how our Democracy works.

And adding a quote from Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello:

But in any and every contested race, as my mom Mary Morello always said, we have to fight the fascist every which way we can, recognizing that even if there’s but an inch of difference between two candidates, there are a lot of vulnerable people who could be greatly harmed in that inch.

Getting high on their own supply? It’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see how it plays out.

Turns out he just joined in July.

In addition to the Colbert trainwreck, CBS’s descent into MAGA hit 60 Minutes around June when they fired Scott Pelley. I assume this is their attempt at a replacement. Not surprising he’s an incompetent flop.

I live somewhere with 2 Republicans on the ballot for one seat with no write in line.

I could have not voted at all on that item, but that wouldn’t have helped anybody but the worst of the two candidates.

I poured through more interviews and candidate statements from these two trashy people than any other candidate I voted for, just to find the one that was the least evil.

I still hate them both, but I voted for one to try and stem the bleeding because that’s how our Democracy works.

Edit: using a 25W iron whose tip wasn’t heating up properly. Had to use its sides to get the solder to melt, which affected precision.

IDK if it was a new iron or just your first time using it, but you may want to consider cleaning or replacing the tip (which is usually like a $2 part). You can clean it with like a 200+ grit sandpaper pretty easily, and just replace it if that doesn’t work.

I broke out my old soldering iron a year or two ago and thought I had forgotten some magic technique because I was having the same problems as you. Then I realized the tip of my iron was oxidized and caked with gunk. A 20s replacement job and I was soldering like a pro again.

The correct answer is until the PSU does that very satisfying fully discarded “click”. But the article brings up some interesting topics:

Raymond Chen published another story from the Windows development trenches…

If you hold a PC’s power button for 12 seconds, it will turn off at the hardware level without notifying the operating system. This is a safety feature so that you can turn of the computer even if the operating system’s “Shut down” command isn’t working.

After eight seconds of the power button being held down, the Windows kernel realizes that the user is trying to do a force-power-off of the system, and it quickly takes a kernel dump that can be uploaded to the Windows Error Reporting service the next time you turn the system on. (-Raymond Chen)

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It seems that the length of time you need to hold down the power button to force a power-off is dependent on the motherboard in question, handled by a microcontroller or some other IC. Virtually every source I can find says this timing is set to about 4-5 seconds, which is quite a bit shorter than the number of seconds given by Chen. Perhaps motherboard manufacturers consider the 12 seconds to be too long, and just do their own thing, regardless what the ATX specification suggests?

What further complicates matters is that Chen details how the kernel dumps created after pressing the power button for 8 seconds do, in fact, get sent to Microsoft once the computer turns on again. In fact, he is one of the people who gets to see these dumps and respond to them, so obviously they are indeed rolling in. Does this mean there’s a huge number of computers out there that require you to hold down the power button for 12 seconds to force a shutdown that nobody’s ever seen?

I had one of the earlier eGolf models, and I’ve gotta say, despite its shit range and meh EV specs, it was one of the best cars I’ve ever driven.

It is the perfect size and form factor - great for a daily drive, but also the seats folded flat, so you could haul a deceptively large amount of stuff.

Only thing that could have made it better (with the technology at the time) is a retractable rear window - I do a decent amount of woodwork and being able to stick a 10’ board out the back would have been awesome.

Cheers! Looks to be back to normal - a couple of test posts went through without issue and the backlog published when you fixed. Thanks!

Ive got a Raspberry Pi (from back when they were cheap) and a USB HDD that chugs along just fine in the background. My upload speed is utter shit (rarely exceeds 1MB/s) but I’ve still uploaded terabytes of data. All you need is the ability to just leave the server running in the background.

Thus, the enshittification continues, and the users do nothing.