https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Boeing_737_MAX_orders_and_deliveries
Boeing has 4,763 MAX aircraft in its backlog as of March 31, 2025.
Well, I assume that some other customer isn’t going to complain about their plane being available earlier than scheduled.
ext step is put the drive in your freezer for an hour or so then pull it
I’ve read that that doesn’t work on drives these days, though I can’t speak from personal knowledge.
What is the freezer trick?
At one time, a hard drive might suddenly lock up for any number of reasons, succumbing to the “click of death” or other failures. One of them could be what drive vendors called “stiction,” a fancy name for a drive whose lubrication failed. The drive’s platters essentially “stuck,” and the drive wouldn’t read data. That meant, of course, that any data stored on it was potentially lost forever.
The “freezer trick” involved sticking the drive in a waterproof plastic bag, and then into the freezer. If you left it alone for a few hours, the cold would cool the metal down enough to constrict it, and, in some cases, free up the disks to spin. The idea behind the freezer trick was to save the data by then quickly copying it to another device before another lockup occurred, Moyer said.
Stiction, though, is largely a thing of the past. Modern and more complex drives have improved lubrication systems and “off-platter parking” (where the drive stores its head off the surface of the disk, like a phonograph, when not in use), to prevent this problem from occurring, Moyer explained. “As a result, stiction rarely happens with today’s technology,” he said.
If the drive’s mechanism has indeed failed, there are data recovery places that can probably deal with it, as long as the platters aren’t damaged. They’ll put it in a cleanroom, physically open the drive, very carefully take the platters out, stick its platters into a known-good drive of the same version and revision, pull the data off and send it to you.
I don’t know what the going rate for this is, but last I looked, it was hundreds to thousands.
kagis
Sounds like that’s still accurate.
https://www.handyrecovery.com/how-much-does-data-recovery-cost/
Mechanical Failure (Expensive)
- Cost: $500–$3,000
Whenever your hard drive starts making strange noises, experiences an unfortunate encounter with water, or simply dies without any warning, you have a big problem because mechanical issues can be very expensive to repair, requiring replacement components, advanced techniques and equipment, and controlled cleanroom environment.
Failure of a rotational drive mechanism can cause a drive not to be visible. Does the drive come up on other machines?
Took it from being very competitive with ICE trucks to costing much, much more.
If you figure that most pickup trucks in 2025 aren’t really being used in the role that historically they held: inexpensive, no-frills utility vehicles — but as status symbols, expensive, large, luxurious vehicles — that’s not necessarily bonkers. In fact, it’s possible to make a vehicle more-desirable by making the price rise:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
A Veblen good is a type of luxury good, named after American economist Thorstein Veblen, for which the demand increases as the price increases, in apparent contradiction of the law of demand, resulting in an upward-sloping demand curve.
The higher prices of Veblen goods may make them desirable as a status symbol in the practices of conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure. A product may be a Veblen good because it is a positional good, something few others can own.
Veblen goods such as luxury cars are considered desirable consumer products for conspicuous consumption because of, rather than despite, their high prices.
https://www.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/ausbav/average_pickup_truck_prices_went_up_61_in_the/
Average pickup truck prices went up 61% in the last 10 years, far outpacing the market as a whole (up 28%) (paywall less article in comments)
I don’t know if I’d normally cite wolfstreet.com, but they’ve helpfully graphed the price of a new Ford F-150 versus a Camry over the years:
The pickup truck is primarily selling to a different market segment than it once did. If the reason you buy a vehicle is to demonstrate to others who see you that you can afford to buy the vehicle…then having a higher price permits for the thing to be an even more potent demonstration.
I’ve used OpenSCAD, but I program, and it’s aimed at someone who wants to write code to generate their objects.
That says that there is less pub-going recently. And I do see some articles saying that many pubs aren’t using up their allotted time because traffic has fallen off. So that may be an effect in addition to this.
This one, though, describes the legal mandates as a much-longer-running phenomenon, legislation dating all the way back to World War I:
https://londonlhr.online/why-do-london-pubs-close-early/
The World War I Defense of the Realm Act (DORA) of 1916 is where the practice of early shutting originated.
The goal of the ordinance was to prevent excessive drinking and maintain sobriety among those employed in weapons plants and other wartime industries.
Despite DORA’s long-standing repeal, its effects on pub closing times have persisted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_of_the_Realm_Act_1914
Alcoholic drinks were watered down and pub opening times were restricted to 12 noon–3pm and 6:30pm–9:30pm. (The requirement for an afternoon gap in permitted hours lasted in England until the Licensing Act 1988.)
An article from 1987 talking about the Licensing Act 1988:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-06-25-mn-10623-story.html
The current law that affects about 50,000 pubs dates back to 1915. In that year, the Defense of the Realm Act was introduced to restrict the nation’s 18-hour drinking day so that production of munitions would not be impaired. The government promised that normal service would be resumed at the end of the war, but the promise was never kept.
Hurd said that under the new bill, public houses will be allowed to stay open from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. six days a week. He did not specify what the Sunday hours will be.
Licensing laws have already been liberalized in Scotland. But elsewhere in Britain, pubs can open only nine hours a day (9 1/2 hours in London) Monday through Saturday and only five hours on Sunday. Basically, pubs can open only at lunchtime and in the evening until 11 p.m.
The government will allow pubs in England and Wales to close at 1am on 9 May to allow drinkers to continue celebrating into the early hours.
Wait…pubs over all of England and Wales can’t stay open until 1 normally?
kagis
Hmmm.
Apparently, pubs in the UK typically stop serving alcohol earlier than in the US. TIL.
Apparently the standard deadline is 11 PM, but licenses can be granted that run longer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_licensing_laws_of_the_United_Kingdom
Until the 2003 Act came into force on 24 November 2005,[27] permitted hours were a standard legal constraint: for example, serving alcohol after 23:00 meant that a licensing extension had to exist—either permanent (as for nightclubs, for example), or by special application from the licensee concerned for a particular occasion. There was also a customary general derogation permitting a modest extension on particular dates, such as New Year’s Eve and some other Public Holidays. Licensees did not need to apply for these and could take advantage of them if they wished without any formality. Now, permitted hours are theoretically continuous: it is possible for a premises licence to be held which allows 24-hour opening, and indeed some do exist.
Most licensed premises do not go this far, but many applied for licences in 2005 that allowed them longer opening hours than before. However, as in the past, there is no obligation for licensees to use all the time permitted to them. Premises that still close (for commercial reasons) at 23:00 during most of the week may well have licences permitting them to remain open longer, perhaps for several hours. Staying open after 23:00 on the spur of the moment is therefore legal at such premises if the licensee decides to do so. The service of alcohol must still cease when the licence closing time arrives. Only the holder of the comparatively rare true “24-hour” licence has complete freedom in this respect.
https://pos.toasttab.com/blog/on-the-line/last-call-for-alcohol-by-state
According to this, the earliest average last call time in the US is in Georgia, at 11:45 PM.
Most states are 1 AM or 2 AM.
Alaska runs until 5 AM.
Don’t take this as zinging alacrity as unusual or whatever. I mean, I don’t care about tabs, for example, because I do “tabs” inside the terminal, using tmux, so I’m fine using something like urxvt, foot, or alacrity, but many people don’t, and care a bunch about having multiple tabs in a virtual terminal program. Time to open terminals, which I care about, may not matter much if you launch them with the mouse instead of whacking a key combination – by the time your fingers get back to the keyboard, the terminal is probably up.
Most virtual terminal programs work more-or-less the same way, outside something exotic like cool-retro-term, and you’ll be fine with choosing any of them.
I don’t know how you’re viewing these posts (native client? Web browser?), but as long as you can share the URL, which I can in Eternity or the Lemmy Web UI, you can hand it off to NewPipe.
On Android, you’re looking for a menu item or button that looks like this:
The first time you share something with NewPipe, you may need to scroll through the list a bit, but Android has a least-recently-used sort on the list, so it’ll be at the top next time.
I have — at one point or another, I’m pretty sure that I’ve tried every Linux virtual terminal program out there that’s been packaged for major distros in the past twenty years — but it was some time back, and I don’t remember specifics. For me, time to start and text throughput was a pretty dominant factor, and urxvt (for X11) or foot (for Wayland) ranked highly there.
I’d include video games.
You can get a small roguelike that’ll provide a ton of playtime.
I use mpv, but VLC has GUI config stuff that is a lot more approachable.
Audacity: free, robust audio editing/effects tool. Not a proper DAW but so feature rich some people treat it like one. Another peak FLOSS.
If you need what I understand to be considered a full-on DAW, there’s Ardour, which is also FLOSS.
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Let’s see what other policies that meet with pushback can turn out to be inadvertent mistakes.
The EV maker on Jan. 2 reported its first decline in annual deliveries last year, and analysts expect sales to fall again this year for several reasons, including damage to the brand reputation by Chief Executive Elon Musk’s close work with U.S. President Donald Trump and support of far-right European politicians.
https://electrek.co/2025/03/28/most-americans-would-not-consider-buying-tesla-new-poll/
A new poll shows that 67% of Americans would not consider buying or leasing a Tesla vehicle – with most of them citing Elon Musk as the reason why.
The results from this survey clearly point toward Tesla having an Elon Musk problem.
If he were removed from the equation, Tesla would have much better chances in the US market.
On one hand, kitty is doing a very aggressive job of advancing the terminal world.
Providing protocol extensions to permit terminal software to use more modifier keys than were available in the past, which is something that I really wanted to see.
Providing a newer graphics protocol than the ancient Sixel — which kitty also supports. Terminal software can render images — mpv can even (slowly) play movies in-terminal using said protocol.
It can leverage the GPU for acceleration.
On the other hand, it’s got some things that I don’t like:
By default, it phones home. I really do not like software doing this.
It keeps attracting new functionality at a very rapid rate, much of which is on by default, and many of which I don’t know if I want. There are a bunch of modules (“kittens”), and a lot of functionality (including aiming to be tmux-like) that I don’t know if I want in a virtual terminal program. This increases the attack surface, which is something I’m kind of sensitive about for a program that’s intended to sandbox content from remote systems. xterm has a lot of cruft related to older protocols and features too, but at least that’s pretty mature code…and it still has had a bit of a security history.
The startup time isn’t great. urxvt can run a daemon, urxvtd. foot just starts up quickly on its own. Kitty can do kitty -1, which makes subsequent windows open quickly, but close all open terminal windows, and you’re back to the window taking a noticeable amount of time to come up.
I’m not sure about the merits of another extension, its ability to render differently-sized fonts in-terminal. That seems like it might fragment terminal software into being able to run on a grid-based set of characters and not.
I spent a while using it and then went back to foot. There’s just very little that I actually want to do and would take advantage of that foot can’t do (though to be fair, I might make more use of the graphics protocol if tmux supported it — the closest one can get graphics-wise there is a non-mainline tmux fork with experimental Sixel support).
If tmux supported the kitty graphics protocol and then some emacs packages also added support — a lot of those have the ability to use graphics, but will only do so in a non-terminal environment — that could take me back to kitty, though.
Could be, though if Florida is doing a lot more replacement work, I’d think that electricity prices would be significantly higher, since equipment replacement costs have to be paid by the power consumers. While Florida definitely doesn’t have the cheapest electricity, it’s about middle of the pack:
https://www.electricchoice.com/electricity-prices-by-state/