my guess is someone big wants it and offered to pay enough to fund it, so canonical is just opening up the same support timeframe to anyone willing cough-up some cash.

and some are, apparently, obscure af:

“an issue with decoding LucasArts Smush codec, specifically the first 10-20 frames of Rebel Assault 2, a game from 1995.”

so the new magat plan is to try to buy the midterms using cash borrowed from our great-grandkids after they ‘save’ the country from the ‘democrat shutdown’?

she’s safe in her seat. ga14 is rated r+19 (cook pvi), the most republican-leaning district in that state.

the form itself is easy, it’s the bot detection and spam prevention that’s hard. on my own sites, i’ve given-in and use the highest-level recaptcha, a hidden form field triggered by bots but not humans, and a server-side script for the mailing that also has some spam detection routines. they still get through, but far less often than a naked form would.

if you’re satisfied with your existing comments function, can you simply enable comments on your ‘contact’ page and hide them from public view?

not only winning, but also currently on pace for a majority of votes cast in (essentially) a 3-way race.

shredding what we do have now is still ‘a plan’

the data collection is all but expected these days… what should be the headline is the remote kill switch the manufacturer used on the guy’s device… repeatedly.

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turn these off.

if you had these enabled, you are probably running defaults most everywhere and have a dozen more settings in firefox to look at; plus a lot more in chrome or edge if you use those, as well as in windows itself.

One. Two. Three. Four. Five?

That’s amazing. I’ve got the same combination on my luggage.

i’ve got one user who has refused to update their win7 system for a full decade–literally the entire lifecycle of win10. offered to set up a dual boot for her and she seemed to be receptive of that–even bought a nice big ssd drive for it, but she never used it and never upgraded. husband says that ssd is still in the damn box sitting on a shelf. i expect to hear from her when that now tired old hdd in her (i think) wolfdale-era win7 finally craps out.

Literally no one is throwing away a working machine just because some deadline passes.

yes. yes they are. we’ve taken in a lot more ‘junk’ systems over the last six months than we ever have.

many of those who aren’t tossing their pc on the heap are paying for the updates or jumping through the link-and-sync bullshit for them.

microsoft’s scare tactics work, and work very well.

yup. i have a bunch of users that won’t be happy. they only still have fb for messenger, use the messenger app, and never go to fb itself anymore.

nope. but we have an ‘account charge’ per meter, as well as a ‘cost adjustment’ that has never adjusted lower.

we’ve also had charges for meter replacements we never asked for or needed… not like the old spinny dial ones were broken. or the first digital one they put in… or the second. or the… i’m on my fifth meter in 25 years.

don’t forget the ‘there will be an additional $7.50 used anal probe flavored fee beginning next month’

just give 'em time. it’s still a bit early in the game for that play

iirc, they did do a limited regional test of subscription windows back sometime during win7.

rufus doesn’t help with preloads that you don’t want to or can’t, for whatever reason, overwrite with a ‘clean’ install.

if i had to provide a pc for work at home, it’d be a separate machine used exclusively for that, and isolated on its own lan.

since you’re buying parts, you can specifically look for boards with 6-8 (more than that will require a ‘specialty’ board). 8 isn’t impossible to find. start a build on pcpartpicker, go straight to motherboards and filter 8 or more ‘SATA 6Gb/s Ports’, then sort low-to-high on price. you should find a msi pro am4 and an asus prime am5 that are quite reasonably priced and have multiple reputable vendors selling them.

otherwise you’re looking for an expansion card to add to a board you’ve already got or to expand one of those above for even more.

of course, you need the drive bays to hold them all, too. which can be harder to find at a reasonable and affordable price than motherboards and controller cards.