Earlier this year I had a connection in Doha, Qatar on my way to the US. I had to go through security twice even though it was a connection from another international flight (first was after getting off the first flight and the second was right before getting on second flight). Both times they took away all liquids, even those bought in the airport.

Do they test everyone’s shoes or do you just have to be extremely unlucky?

Book ads are at least usually at the end of the book and for other books you might want to read. And they’re static. If internet ads were like book ads I wouldn’t have to block them.

My library estimates I’ll be able to read it in 7 weeks, so thanks for the future surprise I’ll forget about until then.

I have, it works better on Fedora than PopOS or ubuntu. There’s actually a fix for the 17 inch version of my laptop in the main kernel, but it explicitly mentions the full model number so doesn’t apply to my 13 inch version. I spent a long time trying and failing to figure out how to build a kernal with a patch for my model.

I switched to Linux on a laptop of mine because an update to windows caused it to not boot.

Now I get to deal with my keyboard backlight not working, sometimes the keyboard freezing on resume, my Bluetooth not connecting on the first try, and my wifi sometimes not working, but it boots fine every time.

“Blood is thicker than water” is up there. The full saying is “the blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb” which means that family isn’t the most import thing.

I would send them a jar from an animal in the Icelandic Phallological Museum. They never specified the species.

Drysuit. Wetsuits keep you warm, not dry.

There’s a FOSS app for anyone who wants this functionality without Google

https://github.com/seemoo-lab/AirGuard

I basically need to stick this xkcd chart next to my computer or I’ll spend days creating something that saves me minutes per years.

Although sometimes it’s fun to automate things just for the hell of it.

Maybe coffee is very expensive where OP lives

The last Pixel to have a headphone jack was the 5A released in 2021. The 6, 6A, 7, 7A, and 8 do not have headphone jacks.

One of my financial accounts wouldn’t let me transfer money to another because my name wasn’t exactly the same on that account.

Libretube works sometimes, but I often have to press load several times.

See how to enable glide typing in the FAQ:

https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard?tab=readme-ov-file#faq--common-issues

Which pixel is getting you that battery life? My 6 has been struggling to make it through a day on GrapheneOS recently.

It should be $5 a month for a phone number. Unless by service plan you’re talking about their data SIM.

You can check your account info and plan if you open up a chat with cheogram.com in the cheogram app and go to the command tab.

I only get the “your balance is low message” but the account info says I’m paid through June.

Since GrapheneOS added eSIM support withput google I’m tempted to try to remove Play Services from my installation. How do you find out which apps require Play Services?

I do the basic maintenance stuff myself and then pay a shop to tune up the bike each spring. When you use a bike to commute suddenly $150 a year doesn’t seem like much to spend on it. That’s less than one month of parking at my last job.