The neighborhood I was in 8 or 9 years ago got fiber and the contractor cut the gas line at least twice on my street, to say nothing of the rest of the streets where they also cut the gas line. It was like they never bothered calling 811 before digging.

As we’re committed not to add paywalls, this purchase will not grant you any additional features in Immich. We rely on users like you to support Immich’s ongoing development.

Is that this animal’s name in some languages? Or is that just how you helped yourself draw them? Or is it just a joke?

It might be possible to upgrade the system but you’ll probably need to find someone who knows these systems better. There used to be a cover on this panel where the buttons and speaker are; that might’ve given a make or model number, or maybe even had a sticker for the company that installed or monitored the system. This is the control panel but there might be a hub/brain somewhere else where all the wires lead, perhaps in a closet or utility room. You might find more information there.

The system sounds like it’s functional; in most jurisdictions the sellers should have provided you with the information necessary to use the system, like alarm codes and contacts for a monitoring service (if any). If you get a code that might be all you need to use the system (you should change the previous owner’s code).

It’s possible to use the alarm without a monitoring service, but I feel like they’re more useful with a service. If there is a monitoring service they would be able to have someone come check out the system and reset the codes for you, show you how to use the system. Is there a sign in front of your house with the name of an alarm company?

This looks like a system old enough that it would probably need an actual telephone line for monitoring and uses wired sensors. Wired sensors are probably a good thing. The sensors don’t need batteries and aren’t vulnerable to jamming like wireless sensors. They’re more expensive to install, though, especially in a finished home. Since yours is already installed, that’s a boon. Most current systems are probably designed for wireless but I’m sure there there are ways to use the hardwired system with more modern systems and get features like remote access.

Anyone know what the embargo that wound up lasting 3 months was about? I’m assuming a security vulnerability that is now fixed?

I’m only just now realizing that’s a label and not a Priority Mail envelope

What Slappy is this?

This is who I think of as Slappy:

Yes, those were features in the most recent release, although I can’t find the announcement post offhand.

I had an old one that was DE-9!

It’s worse when it’s professionally. Yesterday I wrote and sent an email before lunch, except near the end of the day I saw I had an email in my Drafts folder and had never actually hit send.

It used to be if you wanted the detailed news you had to pay for it, either a subscription or 25¢ for that day’s edition ($1 on Sunday). But it was really easy to get that day’s edition: just stick a quarter in the dispenser.

We need to find a way to make that work. I wouldn’t mind paying 50¢ or $1 for access to one day’s-worth of articles, but the payment processing fees eat away all the money on such small transactions. I also don’t necessarily want to set up an account for some random local newspaper on the other side of the country that I’m looking at this one time and might never look at again. It feels like these should be solvable problems, though.

Oh wow, I thought I read it was university studies (which I’d still say is more important priority-wise), but that’s really young!

I’m going to guess, based on the only other comment on this post from @Blaster_M@lemmy.world, that the “beloved” qualifier might be overselling the level of appreciation for Unity. Either it’s not actually that beloved by Ubuntu users or there is only a relatively small number of people for whom Unity truly is beloved. In any case I’m guessing it hasn’t had enough users to justify funding from Canonical.

In fact, just looking up Canonical on Wikipedia to verify the company name and see if they were for-profit I found this:

Canonical achieved a small operating profit of $281,000 in 2009, but until 2017 struggled to maintain financial solvency and took a major financial hit from the development of Unity and Ubuntu Touch, leading to an operating loss of $21.6 million for the fiscal year 2013. The company reported an operating profit of $2 million in 2017 after shutting down the Unity development team and laying off nearly 200 employees.

Fn E on recent Macs or Ctrl Cmd Spacebar

It may be surprising to learn that very basic, low-level support for M3 has existed for quite some time now. m1n1 is capable of initialising the CPU cores, turning on some critical peripheral devices, and booting the Asahi kernel. However, the level of support right now begins and ends with being able to boot to a blinking cursor. Naturally, this level of support is not at all useful for anything but low-level reverse engineering, but we of course plan on rectifying this in due time…

Today I’m learning this and now I learn GNU is supposed to be pronounced “guh-NEW”

I’m not sure but I’m trying to look (not very actively right now, though). Amazon seems to keep updates going for 6 years or so but I’d prefer to not be in such a closed ecosystem. There’s certainly an attraction to an Android-based system. Google has been pushing for suppliers to provide longer Android support but it doesn’t seem like many smaller suppliers have been doing that still. Of course, if you disable internet access and only load files over USB then it’s less of a concern, but then you lose out on some of the Android benefits.

Thanks, that’s my concern with a lot of these interesting devices from small companies

The Commodore name and trademarks were recently acquired by the YouTube channel Retro Recipes, which has now revived the company under the Commodore International Corporation name. The new team includes original Commodore members such as Albert Charpentier, Dave Haynie, and Bil Herd.

My concern would be less about features and more security updates