Required for Windows certification nowadays iirc

All fine and well, but oracle will threaten to turn off your instance if you don’t maintain a reasonable average CPU usage on the free hosts, and will eventually do so abruptly.

This became enough of a hassle that I stopped using them.

Do you mean if it’s idle, or if it’s maxed out? I’ve had a few relatively idle free-tier VMs with Oracle and I’ve not received any threats of shutoff over the last 3 years I’ve had them online.

Idle - low usage Minecraft server was the issue for me

I assumed the same, but as long as you keep a credit card on file apparently they will let you idle it too. I went in and set my max budget at $1/mo and set alerts too, just in case.

This. It’s technically possible (the same way Asahi uses), but Microsoft has to bring the support in Windows.

No, because there is no codesigning/notarization on Linux.

Yes, system_profiler is just a terminal version of System Information.

Gotta juice the utilisation numbers somehow. Limiting everyone to 10 per day would kneecap them, and they’d have nothing with which to attract new investors to keep the gravy train going

The counterpoint to this is obviously that the requirement to present ID to vote is tantamount to voter suppression - iirc there is no “free” form of ID in the UK.

As an ex-Brit I am also used to carrying an ID and a drivers license, and I’ve always found it quite weird that you can’t get an ID card of any kind that isn’t a full-fledged passport or a drivers license.

I mean I guess this new thing is going to be free?

I also don't live in the UK any more, still a brit and not yet Australian, but I have had to adjust to it being necessary to carry your license here when driving. It means I can't really leave home without my wallet, which is odd. We're getting electronic licenses before long though, hopefully.

Australia is state by state based too, some states have more reasonable rules of "present it on request"

Others like nsw are carry always

AFAICT here in WA it’s “you should carry but it’s not an offence if you don’t and you can sort it out later a bit like the UK”.

But I’m not 100% sure so I’m making sure I’m carrying just in case.

That's exactly what it is in WA :)

Source: I live there

Have also driven there for 15+ years and never been asked for my license.

Honestly no idea. Hopefully! And hopefully you’ll be able to vote with it.

I just have a magnetic wallet on the back of my iPhone with the two cards and my travel card, so I always have them. I don’t carry a physical payment card or cash so don’t need a wallet otherwise

Yeah iirc they have moved some stuff around that sshd relied on into the pre-boot volume, so it works exactly as you describe.

Hugo is a static site generator, so I can host my site anywhere that can serve an index.html.

With Wordpress, you have to worry about PHP, a database, etc. It’s the difference between being able to use GitHub pages, and needing either a VPS or shared hosting

> Hugo is a static site generator, so I can host my site anywhere that can serve an index.html.

As long as you have access to a computer that can run Hugo Version Manager (and who knows what else).

I am being facetious, obviously.

He knows that. :-)

… how do you think the cruise control decelerates you? Is this a troll post?

Maybe this is different on cars newer than 2015 but I've never felt cruise control apply brakes.

At most, I've felt it shift down (on an automatic, obviously) to use engine braking while it was trying to reduce speed going downhill.

Any other time, it's only slowed down by coasting.

It lets off the accelerator to reduce speed to the new setting, just like a human would.

At least on the cars I had over the years, it does not apply the brakes. Depending on how far it is from the target, it lets of the trottle and it uses engine breaking.

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