I used to be huge into college football, planning my weekends around when my teams were playing. I drifted away for a few years after they instituted the “targeting” penalty; in particular, there was a game where it was called twice on one drive, one was outright wrong (and overturned upon review*), and the other was borderline. It wasn’t a decision to protest; it was more of a “this isn’t important to me any more” kind of thing.

*It was overturned, but in that first year of the rule, the 15 yard penalty still counted. The player that committed the potential foul was simply allowed to remain in the game. (They have changed this rule since then.)

To be clear, I’m not in favor of people being injured. It was just that targeting penalty that made me realize that football was never going to be a safe game. No sport is completely safe, obviously; there’s always a risk of serious injury. But football seems especially designed to inflict injury, as opposed to other sports where the injuries are more incidental. And that scandal where the New Orleans (I think) NFL team was giving bounties for hits on specific players did not improve my opinion at all.

These days, we’ll watch football games if we don’t have anything else going on or whatever, but it’s not a high priority. We did watch some of the super bowl - in that it was on TV while we were reading or working on paying bills, etc. - but we definitely didn’t stay up late or anything like that for it. There’s not much else on TV during the super bowl anyway.

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I think last has it, too, but I’m not sure.

I’m not clear on your use case here - the system obviously can’t report if it’s off. Initially I thought this was in the Home Assistant community, and I was going to suggest just pinging the machine at regular intervals from the HA system. That makes sense if you’re trying to monitor various systems.

This was such a great reaction moment.

Oh right! I’ll let the evidence of my erroneous memory stand.

I agree, this episode is one of the best. I especially like how we only see it from the team that was in the runabout, so the viewer has no insight into the mystery. (I think they did the same in the episode where the crew devolved, but I’m not sure.)

I had it happen a few times. I moved away from Kubuntu as a result.

I’ve had it happen too. In fact it is what prompted me to move away from Kubuntu.

I’m usually anti dealer badges, but when we bought our Accord, the dealer said if we kept the dealer license plate frame on, we’d get free car washes for life. We took advantage of that many times. Seemed a fair trade to me.

Maybe he’s going to run Links and Wordstar!

No worries. I’m a fed and it’s the email I received.

I’m actually on vacation this week, but I’m not sure if that is a good thing or not with this going on.

Oh I’m aware.

Might have to rejoin reddit for the fed news sub. :(

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The idiots in charge now want the federal employees that they hate to investigate this crash. The ones they just threatened with termination.

Why people voted for this shit is beyond me.

I just wanted to say Good Luck, and we’re all counting on you.

I don’t see you with a Fungineering degree!

I’m at Disney this week, so Fungineering is on my mind.

No, it should work fine, but a backup is always a good idea.

It’s not like Windows where it has to install a bunch of new drivers via 7 reboots. It just sees the new hardware and uses the correct drivers.

This is great. It reminds me of the Olds my dad had that had intermittent power steering, like you’d be turning into a parking spot at the mall (this actually happened to me) and the power steering would stop working, suddenly making the wheel much harder to turn. All kinds of random fun.

Cutlass Ciera diesel. If you got behind someone doing 50 mph on the highway, you were basically stuck there, because it would take forever to pass them.

After he masters that, get him an MFM or RLL hard drive and teach him to low level format it and set the best interleave.