I have one. I hated the stock skin. I like having the apps I use regularly groups together by purpose on my home screen so I can get to them quickly. I immediately re-skinned it.

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

I fail to see any downside to this.

I have noticed that ICE usually wants to conduct their splashy raids in areas with very low gun ownership, e.g., NYC, Boston, etc.

An M134 shoots up to 6000 rounds per minute, and it shoots 7.62x51mm NATO (.308 Win). 12 seconds would be a maximum of 1200 rounds. If I’m buying some of the very best match-grade ammunition I can get (Hornady 168gr ELD-M) at $2.15/round, that works out to a maximum of $2580. Which ain’t chump change, but is still about $397,420 short of $400,000.

Oriental shorthair. They sound very unusual too.

Under that criteria, there are a grand total of zero areas that can accommodate them. Same goes for dogs.

But that’s a stupid criteria, because cats are tamed, and thrive indoors.

Hope that helps.

If someone intentionally caused harm to any of my cats, I live near a large national forest, and once you get a few hundred yards off a trail, no one is going to find a body.

Who tf gets a pet cat and doesn’t let it outside?

People that love their cats and don’t want them to die young. Outdoor cats live an average of 2-5 years, indoor-only cats live an average of 10-15 years. By allowing cats outside, they’re exposed to pathogens, parasites, and dangers that they wouldn’t otherwise experience. In my area, there are coyotes, bobcats, rattlesnakes, hawks, and owls, all of which will quite happily make a meal of a cat. There are also cars; they don’t tend to be able to stop on a dime.

Facial structure is very different between Devon and Cornish; Devons have very round faces. Cornish tend to have much sharper, more delicate features. I think that the term for Devon Rexes is ‘cobby’.

Sure, you’re talking about the wet bulb temperature.

But.

You’ll find a lot of people from the northern part of the US that simply can’t function in the south in the summer, when it’s >90F. I’m a transplant from the north to the south; I’ve adapted just fine, by virtue (?!) of not having air conditioning. And it goes the other way too; if you move to a colder climate from a hotter one, you’ll eventually adapt to it.

This is not the case for all people, but most people will be able to adapt.

Windows 11 LTSC

I’m using Window 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC; the biggest issue I’ve had was that I couldn’t get my video card installed. I had to wait until there was an updated driver, a few weeks after I assembled my computer. Every time I tried to install the driver that was supposed to be the correct one, I got a BSOD.

Honestly, I like 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC better than I liked the 10 Pro version that I had. And–compared to the only Linux distro I’ve used, Tails–it’s fairly straightforward. And yes, I know the Tails is kind of a pain in the ass, and it’s not fair to judge all of Linux against that. But i’m old, and cranky, and just want Win 3.11 back.

The probability is that, as you age, your ability to change you attitudes in order to keep up will slow down to the point where you will seem regressive and problematic to 20yo children when you are 60.

The era that my parents grew up in would seem awful to most people now, but my parents were unaware that there were problems, and they have a hard time seeing a lot of them now.

I don’t know if this is possible on Amazon

It’s certainly possible to get e-books for free, with only a very small amount of piracy.

Beautiful Cornish Rexes! We have two also! (Along with 3 Sphynx, a Lykoi, one Manx, and a Siamese.)

What are their personalities like?

I agree; the game itself is very enjoyable. But DA largely felt darker than this game does. And the animations are… Unpleasantly cartoonish. Again: it’s fun. It just doesn’t fit.

It’s generally a bit easier with two people in the car. But even by myself, I haven’t had too hard of a time keeping a cat out from under my feet.

TBH, with almost all of my cats–currently 8, but easily 30+ over my life–it just being in the carrier. If they’re allowed to roam the car while you’re driving, they tend to stop screaming. You do need to get them in a kennel before you open a car door or window for any reason though.

That’s one of the major issues that I have with corporations; there’s very little interest in sustainable profitability, and a laser-like focus on growth for the sake of growth. And sometimes the product that a company makes isn’t even “sustainable” per se. That is, if you make certain durable goods, eventually you should be reaching a point where demand will slow to a trickle as the market becomes saturated, and that’s okay.

IMO, it might be a good idea to compare those prices against relative purchasing power of a dollar. I don’t know how those prices stack up to the overall rate of inflation or CPI, or even the cost of the specific ingredients. I would have less of an issue with price increases if a) McDonald’s profit margin–as a percentage of cost–remained steady, and b) the cost held steady against the relative value of the dollar overall. If it’s just arbitrarily raising prices because they can, then that’s bullshit.

Very cute!