pet the cat, walk the dog

You probably want to pick something supported by the Rockbox firmware, in case the native firmware is so-so.

I’d just like to be able to put on something other than Sade on a date.

I guess then that they just block popular third-party VPN services. Still not sure why, though, if it’s not mandated by law.

Anyone can make gas from a stove or a propane tank explode, no special talent needed for that and it happens all the time.

To disguise the traffic completely, you can use either aforementioned Shadowsocks or obfs4, which both make it look random and are used by Tor bridges to circumvent packet inspection and whatnot. obfs4 is a bit ass to setup standalone, because it was made specifically for Tor — you need a different piece of software to make it work like a proxy. Dunno about Shadowsocks.

Regarding VPN blocking in general, I wonder how the UK or your provider deal with the fact that a lot of businesses use VPNs for their day-to-day operations. From quick googling, VPNs don’t seem to be banned nationwide, so it would be nice if you asked the sysadmin at your work to set up a VPN, see if your ISP blocks connections to it, and raise a stink if they do.

Do you need a license to operate a gas stove or a propane grill?

I don’t see people complaining about houses in the US using flammable and dangerous natural gas for tons of things, including drying clothes for chrissake. You know, a process that occurs by itself if you just leave the clothes in the air for a bit.

Yeah, making moonshine was a rural pastime in my country for ages, even when it was illegal, and the most danger from it that I’ve heard of is that the result smells and tastes pretty damn nasty.

Wikipedia says:

Alcohol concentrations at higher strengths (the GHS identifies concentrations above 24% ABV as dangerous) are flammable and therefore dangerous to handle. This is especially true during the distilling process, when vaporized alcohol may accumulate in the air to dangerous concentrations if adequate ventilation is not provided.

This sounds like it requires the air to taste like fortified wine.

Conveniently, Washington of the Columbia district is outside of any state’s jurisdiction.

I’ve recently listened to a podcast from late 2024, wherein the invited expert predicted the attack on Iran, because a) Republican presidents use wars to distract from their shit policies, and b) Iran was the weakest of available options.

to say “insider trading”

You mean like in the first sentence of the article? Do you read in a reverse order?

You know that Intel and AMD both grew up on government contracts, specifically military ones? Sure hope you don’t use Intel or AMD.

Doesn’t thermal ink basically fall off the paper in a few weeks? At least receipts and such fade pretty quickly.

Imperative code has nothing to do with any of that.

That’s not enough. It’s also important that the water is boiling when one initially drops the eggs in, instead of them putting the eggs into cold water and bringing to boil.

I’ve vaguely heard that Heinlein just took a whole bunch of different premises and ran with them in different novels. Although what I’ve gotten around to reading of his stuff so far, sounds very 1950s in style.

Certifiably untrue.

Coke. It’s the real thing.

I’m sure the EU will impose sanctions on the US for the actions of this administration, like they did with Russia. They wouldn’t want to appear hypocritical, after all.

Reminder that Fabrice Bellard, who originally wrote FFMpeg (and QEMU), also made JSLinux, currently based on his other PC emulator TinyEMU and using WASM.